 Adults of most species can live from two to ten months and some can even live one or two years.Eastern Hercules beetles, "D. tityus", can live six to twenty-three months in captivity with a hibernation period.Western Hercules beetles, "D. grantii", tend to have a shorter adult lifespan in the wild (two to four months), but in captivity they live for about the same amount of time as the eastern species.