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Food and Feeding
Superworms: good or bad?
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<blockquote data-quote="Digger" data-source="post: 259827" data-attributes="member: 6853"><p>I've used Pet Smart meal worms for years. As PlayingMantis mentions, I make a small cut on the worm and let out some of the yummy-goo (scientific term). Touch the goo to the mantis mouth and they're off to town, munching away. I diversify my feeders, but Pet Smart crickets have always been my staple when natural food disappears in Winter. The crickets get gut loaded for a couple days (a must) and I never feed them carrots.</p><p></p><p>Regarding the mealworms - I've never seen a chewing or digestion problem. Regarding crickets - I've never once seen a health problem (from the mantids eating them). **However - I only raise Tenodera sinensis and Parasphendale affinis. Ponder (that's her in the avatar to the left), the budwing, has mandibles that could rip through a car door. So the mealworms' exoskeleton is no prob at all. And it contains chitin which, biochemically, is good for them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Digger, post: 259827, member: 6853"] I've used Pet Smart meal worms for years. As PlayingMantis mentions, I make a small cut on the worm and let out some of the yummy-goo (scientific term). Touch the goo to the mantis mouth and they're off to town, munching away. I diversify my feeders, but Pet Smart crickets have always been my staple when natural food disappears in Winter. The crickets get gut loaded for a couple days (a must) and I never feed them carrots. Regarding the mealworms - I've never seen a chewing or digestion problem. Regarding crickets - I've never once seen a health problem (from the mantids eating them). **However - I only raise Tenodera sinensis and Parasphendale affinis. Ponder (that's her in the avatar to the left), the budwing, has mandibles that could rip through a car door. So the mealworms' exoskeleton is no prob at all. And it contains chitin which, biochemically, is good for them. [/QUOTE]
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