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Enhancing the nutritional composition of feeder insects with dusting and gut-loading

Feeder insectsThijsSeptember 17, 2020
Crickets in industrial farm and gut-loading

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…

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