Beetlemania

Welcome to Beetlemania, home of beetle breeders and bug lovers (and a few bugs too).

Latest Breaking News!

Year 2, Akhet II-2, Saqqarah - Earlier today, a spokesperson for the Gods announced that Khefre has taken pity on the people of Saqqarah and Stillwater and has decided to move their Level 1 Scarab Gardens closer to the Chariot Stop in each region. "The Saqqarah one is now located at 676, -859," the spokesperson said. "The Stillwater Garden will be moved once the Garden is empty of contestants. With respect to the last statement, that means that the Stillwater Level 1 Garden needs more judges. BUG members and bug fans everywhere take note -- run, don't walk to your nearest Chariot Stop and gallop faithfully to SW. Their Garden is still located at 1730, 3760. Meanwhile, Saqq citizens received the news of the new location for their Beetle Garden with glee. It is visible from the CS and a short walk across a field. This reporter thinks it won't be long before we'll be seeing Level 1 contestants erecting their beetle statues in Saqq.

Who we are

Beetlemania was created to provide a central home for those that wished to share their knowledge of beetle breeding as well as hear and learn from the experiences of others.

Anyone with a love of beetle breeding, from the novice to the expert, is welcome to join us and our motley crew.

Beetlemania is a strong supporter of the beetle garden competitions and highly encourages its members to go and vote when active ones open up.

Rules

We only have one real rule. That everyone within respect one another while realizing that people are different.

Location

Our guildhall is currently located in Saqqarah @ 702, -965 right next to the Chariot Stop.

Facilities

We have a facility with 4 terrariums specifically for the purpose of showing off your beetles and trading. These terrariums are not for use with breeding. The facility is located right next to our guild hall.

Current Projects

These will be listed as they occur.

Current Scarab Shows

For active and filling gardens

ATTENTION

*Please note that advanced gardens, L2+, are currently bugged in as a person may enter a beetle into an advanced garden without the certificate. Tewosret will be talking to Teppy on Tuesday about a potential fix. Recommend, for the time being, holding off on entering beetles into L2+ gardens until the problem is fixed. - Jeremiah

Location	Coordinates	Level	Current status
Meroe	824,-3661	1	Filling - 2/7
Shabbat Ab	1440, 1775	1	Filling - 2/7
Shabbat Ab	939,1101	2	Active - Needs Votes
Sinai	3197,4397	1	Active - Needs Votes
Stillwater	1730,3670	1	Active - Needs Votes

Current Members

Active membership count: (42/50)

Elders

Ari | Merit | Mydnight

Patriarchs

Amethyst | Archipelago | Ashanu | Catote | Eclypse | Emmy | Ilika | Inyidd | Mercille | Midnightdragon | Neone | Oshibel | Socordia

Member Showcase

Follow the following link to get to a page showing our members favored and current works with beetles.
All beetles shown are private works and have either already gone through a contest or will not be entering one.
Member beetle photos are limited to 4 per person.
You can find the pictures here.

Useful Links

• An introductory guide to beetle breeding
• Scarab Gardens Map
• Information regarding the Test of Khefre's Children
• Past Scarab competition pictures

Breeding Tips

Here those within the guild can put their tips for breeding that would complement the intro guide. When posting tips, please do so in bullet form and end your tip with your name.

• One method of refining a pattern on your beetle is to breed it with another beetle that has a very similar geometric pattern to it. - Jeremiah
• The best way (one of) to get good looking beetles is to keep mix breeding with other peoples beetles(save your %100's to bring up the % number though!) - Ari
• If you are going to be away for awhile, make sure to remove your beetles from the terrarium so that you don't run out of cabbage. -
• Another good way to bring your owner percentage up is to breed your wild beetles together. They will produce some patterned and/or colored beetles that will be 100% yours. Then breed those to your works of art that are lower ownership percentage to raise the percent and possibly pick up the patterns/colors you are working with. - Ari via Merit
• Note that if you leave your beetles in a terrarium longer than three or four hours, especially if there are lots of them, you run the danger of them eating each other. - Merit

Beetlemania's webmaster is Jeremiah.
He can be reached via email by clicking here .