Fruit flies are the perfect food source for many exotic pets. You can feed frogs, (young) mantises, small spiders, and many other amphibians and reptiles with fruit flies. They make the perfect food source, not only nutritional but also to stimulate hunting behaviours. You can buy fruit flies in specialized pet shops or at the…
Superworms are popular feeder insects that you can use to feed many different pets, like reptiles, amphibians, hedgehogs, rodents, tarantulas, and praying mantises. In many countries, superworms — also called Morio worms or king worms in some countries — are rather cheap food as well. But it is not always that easy to have them…
If you compare the keeping and breeding of dubia roaches and crickets, you see many similarities in how we house them and which materials we use. For example, both do like egg flats, and both breed very well around the same temperature and humidity. So, I was wondering, why not placing them together in one…
White springtails (Collembola sp.) are useful insects and a great addition to a nutritious diet for small frogs, fish, small geckos and other small insectivores. Alongside being a proper food source, springtails are also very useful as a clean-up crew and can be the janitors of your terrarium, vivarium or paludarium. Springtails are detritivores which…
You probably have considered breeding your own feeder insects. Wishing that you never have to buy your staple feeders for your animal again. But there is so much choice which feeder insect you should breed, and wondering how difficult it actually is. So let’s first discuss what feeder insect is the easiest to breed and…
Everyone knows you are what you eat! But did you know, or realized, that the nutritional value of feeder insects depends a lot on what you feed them? Dusting and gut-loading of feeder insects is a very popular topic in reptile husbandry. But it is not much talked about when feeding bugs. Of course, you…
Dubia roaches are very popular feeder insects. These roaches, also called Guyana orange spotted cockroaches, make an excellent food source. They are nutritious, large-sized and very well accepted by most animals. You can buy them from many suppliers, and they can often deliver them in large and constant quantities. However, have you ever considered breeding…
Crickets are maybe the most common and most popular feeder insect there is. They are nutritious, easy to feed and eaten by many animals like bugs, reptiles and amphibians. If you are tired of visiting the pet store regular to buy more crickets, maybe you should consider breeding your own In this article, we focus…
Feeder insects are essential for many bug species kept as pets. There are many different feeder insects available, such as crickets, cockroaches, mealworms, superworms, fruit flies, to name a few. Locusts are a perfect feeder insect to add to the list. They are the largest live feeder insect, and it provides excellent nutrition to the…
