Japanese Beetles

They look so brutal and awesome at the same time..now I wanna watch kamen Rider kabuto again!

Ah! I remember when this was uploaded on YT. I actually showed my parents the video about the beetles last night on my phone. :D

Pretty awesome, I would buy one if had the chance. They should make obstacle courses for them like hamsters have!

Haha, beetles are the new hamster! XDDDDD

do u like neko danny?

I've always wanted to do that beetle wrestling thing.

Darn, somehow I missed the dog video. XD I think I'm in love with the thought of having a pet beetle. XD

The puppies are quite cute! I would like to have one of those, but we already have a dog...a very spoiled one. v.v He's a Jack Russel Terrier, mostly white with a little brown. Will NOT eat dog food. So for the last 2 1/2 years I've been having to cook it foil wrapped, seasoned, grilled chicken thighs. I swear to goodness, it's the only thing it'll eat...says my parents anyway. >.> Mum's fault though, feeding it too much human food when it was wee, just because she felt sorry for it. lol The dog is such a pain though...always having to take it outside to go poo...and having to experience the wrath of the daystar! Beware the daystar! (Starting to sound like a hikkikomori aren't I? But night is so much better...ok...getting off topic...
Love the vid!
Seems like the 3Gs has great quality! I want one quite bad but I have a Samsung Omnia. It's one of those "iPhone like features" phones, but not an iPhone. lol.

Would love to have a normal dog who eats dogfood!

-Kazu

WHOA AWESOME

heck, they're pretty cheap too!

I'd buy two and build a mini cityscape diorama and have 'em duke out giant monster style.

What kinda of dogs are those? They look so cute.

I kind of feel bad for the beetles because they're stuck in such small spaces.

Sleeping beetle = dead beetle = no fun

Cute puppy = attraching girls = loads o fun

Really nice bettles ! Here in Brazil nobody has pet bettles, we have a lot of nice bettle species here but some of them are protected by law, you cannot have them. Some bettles are more commom and easy to find but they´re ugly or stinky !
Are those dogs Yorkshire Terrier ?

Hehehe, saw the doggy video earlier. The one of the left has scary eyes... Auuuuu.....

The beetles are cool, but why on the toy floor? They aint the robot ones after all.

Some of those beetles look like they would eat the smaller dogs...

beetles scare me ;___;

But the dogs are tres awesome. Gotta love the canine =D! Man's best friend wouldn't you know ~ <3

Haha... Feeding one will let me think back Kamen Rider which I watched many years ago ^^.

Fluffy Dogs > Beetles.

Quite nice vid quality on the iphone. Don't know how much it deteriorates on the youtube upload but seems ok.
I love the idea of filming/taking pictures of everyday things with phone (with decent quality) and viewing it later.. feels futuristic.. kind of ^^

The beetles are sooo cute! The sleeping one is ADORABLE ^^ The puppies are really cute, too!

I want that Kabuto :P

Those big beetles are awesome. We get dinky ones here, but still they're impressive buggers.

how long do the beetles live for?

Ugh....don't like bugs or dogs. >_<

I just wrote a big post about kabuto mushi few hours ago... it all started with that video (I watched it via YouTube updates), then I decided to look for a little more info about them, and ended up finding out tons of different stuff...
Will post the link here as soon as it's published.

I wonder how much force one of these beetles can exert. Thinking about it reminds me of Japanese Bug Fights.

But I'd take the puppies any time.

Saw that beetle video on youtube already. They look kinda boring to keep though... They're living in such a cramp container.

lol cute dogs in a laundry basket.

lol... i thought you meant the japanese ver of the beatles...

BIG BAD BEETLE BORGS!

The beetles make me think, "Ah...I need to catch one of those in Animal Crossing".
And they make me think of that time Hard Gay went out to catch beetles and found out how much they're worth...

>..< Bleh I hate bugs but this one looks kinda nice. o.o

me love neko~~~ ^o^

The beetles in Japan look awfully large enough to do some damage if they were mean. I don't think I will have a pet beetle anytime soon.

Haha those are some large beetles o__o

Wonder if they're harmless.

Reminds me of the kids playing mushiking in taiwan, collecting crap loads of mushiking cards... when they could just play normal rock paper scissors...

Those dogs are so cute X3 Also those beetles are huge! ._. I've known about their existence and sort of seen them in that one Japanese arcade game about fighting bugs but I didn't know they were that big in real life ^^"

*shudders*

Even though i like Kamen Rider.... Insects still gross me out somewhat >_>

Dogs are cuter <3

u think the beetles r cute now till u get one and while u r sleeping it gets lose and u wake up with a beetle on your chest staring u down

i so totally prefer the doggies (me is a dog lover <3 XD)

They're so massive *_* Reminds me of Mushiking toys I see in Japanese supermarkets.

Dogs are so adorable. My dog's an interesting mix, though: dachshund-dalmatian. Guess who's the dad ^^;

The Dogs were cuttteee!!! I'd take the Dog over the beetle =)

There are so HUGE!

PUPPIES! :D *earsplitting squeal* The beetles are okay, but you can't beat puppies. You just can't. Aw, now I feel the need to go hug my little lunatic monkey-faced dog. She's cute, but she's old, too, and slowly going blind, poor dear.

Danny, you've said on several occasions that you're considering getting a dog. Are you maybe getting closer to actually getting one? What sort of dogs are you looking at? I'm a fan of brachycephalic, ankle-biter snugglebugs personally, but your mileage may vary.

Puppies? Bleh! Who in their right mind would ever want one of those hideous beasts!

I prefer the Beetles! They're so Kawaii!

Just Joking. Those beetles are like the size of my head(either my head is too small, or the beetles are too big)! And well puppies are good too!

For some reason I thought the Beatles like the rock band. I feel really dumb...

well I'll be, dogs in a basket!

Bzzt...

"Henshin!"

"Change beetle~"

But yeah, I prefer puppies. Hate bugs, especially some of those soft, slimy ones.

If I go get that beetle, I'll be sure to walk it everyday with a leash of course, otherwise they'll fine me.

D'awwwwwwww.
The beetles sure are cute.

The puppies are too. ^^

Me prefers cats o dogs. But because of their maintenance costs, I haven't been able to get one. ^^;

Those dogs are so cute

I dun like bugs..but I like Rider..lol

This sleeping Kabuto looks like dying... well, I prefer spiders ;)
And this dog race is cute but is also smells bad even if you bath daily.

Some beetle battles here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkJGsEVud28

i dont like insects, make too much of a crunchy noise when I crush them, those beetles will be making one nasty one if it ever gets out of its cage.

they look alright but kinda creepy.

Those beetles look nice but I prefer to have a pet snake. It'll take care of my rodent problem! XD

They look so fierce. I bet if I bought them home, they would secretly fly out at night and try to attack me when I'm asleep.

Man, are the beetle's in Japan always that big? Because I've never seen that big in my country

Puppies! The beetles are cool but dogs are so much better, look like silky terriers ^_^.

I have a yorkshire terrier myself and shes great, nuts sometimes and picks on dogs 4 times her size (seriously shes started on rottweilers and german shepherds O_o) but i wouldn't change her.

I like Japanese Beetles but I heard they are quite expensive.

they look awesome~
i want one!!!

Very nice Japanese Beetles. Would be interesting to see them for sale here in America.

For a moment of madness I was expecting to see Ringo Starr cosplay. >_>

I want my very own kabuto beetle so I can henshin, cast-off, clock-up and then rider kick!

hurr those dogs look really cute

Cool beetle. Haven't seen a beetle that big in the wild before. Seen some very large grasshoppers though. Made a collosal mess if you stepped on them. :p

Those beetles are pretty big.

The only insects that I've seen here in the states sold in pet shops are praying mantises and of course the crickets used as live feed. @_@

It's a Heracross! I always knew that Japan was creating Pokemons!!

Surprised how good the quality is on the iphone, still can't no blacks ones available in my town.

the dogs looks like little elfs....

ooh god those dogs are too cute - if I could I would buy them

beetles were a little too scary for mee XD but dogs were to kawaii for me >o<!

The beetle that didn't move looked kind of dead, poor things cooped up in a small tank like that...

Love animals but prefer big dogs, small dogs are too hyper... like they're on a perpetual sugar rush.

Oh S*!t those beetles looks evil, there huge, they would have those dogs for breakfast..... :/

I think I would have to pass on those beetles as a pet and get a puppy even if they are little grandma dogs.

The dogs are so cute.... *keep replaying the video

I think I might get one of each . . . but I like bugs - and they would be easier in my apartment! hmmmm . . . idea is forming "lol"

Both were super cute.

Beetle...if only it weren't around 4000 yen...

whoa, I knew the Japanese love keeping beetles for pets, but I had no idea that they were so huge!
I wonder if they can Cast Off?

Wow only 30'ish bucks, wish it were that cheap over here :/ but they look totally awesome and the sleeping one is just adorable ^^ the dogs are cutest things I've seen, if only they had palmtop taiga's~~ for sell 'o'

The dogs are best. Them beatles is nasty =x *spalt* oops I stepped on it

sheesh! those beetles look like they are armoured like small tanks.

It's a mystery to me why these guys are so popular in Japan. I tried playing a DS game that featured these kinds of bugs but I kept dying... I guess it wasn't meant to be.

KAWAIII! I mean the doggies. They look so silky smooth I just want to reach out and pet them.

Oh what ugly dogs, but the beetles are soo kawai :))

Go for the cute little dogs. The beetles are more of a hobby than a pet. Can't get both?

I want a beetle now : but you probably cant get one off ebay xD

Those bugs are huge O.O
I'd prefer the kabutos since I think they don't snap their pincers on my finger.

Dogs are cute. Beetles are not.

well, I'm not much of a dog person so I'd prefer cats. But then again cats also have their waterloos so I'd prefer kabutos. Oh boy....I guess having a pet carries responsibilities.