JAM BEETLES 101: A Complete Care Guide

Jam Beetles are a gargantuan arthropod species.

ENVIRONMENT: Airborne Jam Beetles don’t require large enclosures beyond their physical size, although they are a burrowing species and prefer to have tunnel-like enclosures approximately 20 feet in diameter.

AIR: They prefer an air-breathing environment of 50% Nitrogen, 48% Oxygen, with 2% Sulfur, although 5% variants of Nitrogen and Oxygen are possible as long as the Sulfur remains higher than 2%.

DIET: Jam Beetles require a diet mainly consisting of mushrooms, decaying plant-matter, protein, fat, and cuticle, with salted water available to them at all times. They are picky eaters and will only eat certain types of plants and arthropods, and can tell immediately if something is awry with their food and simply won’t eat.

EGG STAGE: Wild Female Jam Beetles will lay their eggs and protect them beneath their massive wings, burrowing underground for safety. These eggs will remain until they hatch, a period of about 12 weeks. At the 11th week, the Mother Jam Beetle would begin to seek out large sources of above-ground food.

LARVAL STAGE: After they hatch, a wild mother Jam Beetle would protect her young while they spend the next 40 weeks feeding and growing, spending her time burrowing small holes and coating their sides with ‘Jam’ that she has scraped off of her wings, which then slowly bake and harden.

POD STAGE: Eventually once they are large enough, the young larvae will seek out the pods that their mother has created in the ground and enter, sealing themselves in. After they have all done this, their Mother will leave in search of a new mate. The new Jam Beetles will hatch in 72 weeks.

BREEDING: Once they have broken their pod casings, a Jambeetle is considered mature. Mating is tricky; as the more colorful male Jam beetles cannot be housed together lest they fight, so it is best to select a single good male for a breeding population and to cull the unneeded ones as a food source.