Superworm Stalker

[cloud jaguar]

My wife's S. Limbata (she named her "Morganna") is a fine and plump, yet smallish specimin. I attempted to feed her a Superworm (what are those things, anyways?) through her feeding hole and it fell onto the coco substrate of her lair and disappeared into the . Immediately she ran down the vertical stick in her enclosure and commenced to stalking the intruder. A couple of hours later and she is waiting there still

 

[hibiscusmile]

They are big discusting worms with mean mouth and some strong legs, Awwww move the substrate a little!

 

[Rick]

They turn into a beetle. Not on my list of mantis foods.

 

[PhilinYuma]

They turn into a beetle. Not on my list of mantis foods.

Yeah, they are just a giant species of meal worm used in the tropical fish hobby. I never fed them to my fish, either (nasty jaws, as Hibiscusmile remaked). Lots of protein, though!

 

[cloud jaguar]

She finally found it after a couple of hours of stalking! The S. Limbatas eat the superworms like candy but tthe superworms do scare the beans out of the little S. Californica!

 

[sk8erkho]

Yeah! Nasty jaws!!!! My first experince with em was a lesson well learned as the evil mega worm grabbed hold of my L4's little forearm and you could see him shaking his arm to disconnect it so to speak!! I grabbed it and off with it's head!!! now for protien I only feed them to my mantids if i am out of other foods and I behead em first just for measure!!!! :angry: And when I found out they turn into beetles that was new!!! :mellow:

 

[sk8erkho]

Yeah! Nasty jaws!!!! My first experince with em was a lesson well learned as the evil mega worm grabbed hold of my L4's little forearm and you could see him shaking his arm to disconnect it so to speak!! I grabbed it and off with it's head!!! now for protien I only feed them to my mantids if i am out of other foods and I behead em first just for measure!!!! :angry: And when I found out they turn into beetles that was new!!! :mellow:

 

[sk8erkho]

Yeah! Nasty jaws!!!! My first experince with em was a lesson well learned as the evil mega worm grabbed hold of my L4's little forearm and you could see him shaking his arm to disconnect it so to speak!! I grabbed it and off with it's head!!! now for protien I only feed them to my mantids if i am out of other foods and I behead em first just for measure!!!! :angry: And when I found out they turn into beetles that was new!!! :mellow:

 

[sk8erkho]

Yeah! Nasty jaws!!!! My first experince with em was a lesson well learned as the evil mega worm grabbed hold of my L4's little forearm and you could see him shaking his arm to disconnect it so to speak!! I grabbed it and off with it's head!!! now for protien I only feed them to my mantids if i am out of other foods and I behead em first just for measure!!!! :angry: And when I found out they turn into beetles that was new!!! :mellow:

 

[bassist]

People feed these to mantises? :huh: Like people have said above those jaws are nasty first time I got a couple when I had some chinese mantises I saw the jaws shook my head and gave the worm to an emperor scorpion I had at the time.

@sk8erkho: They're Zophobas beetles in their adult state I used to let them turn into the beetles and fed them to the scorpion I mentioned above, might be able to feed them to mantises actually they don't seem to have the jaws they had in their larva state someone could try that I was never bitten by the beetle form but was bit by the larva once.

Here's a good image of a Zophobas