{"id":471,"date":"2020-08-14T11:59:45","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T11:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keepingbugs.com\/?p=471"},"modified":"2021-08-14T08:52:23","modified_gmt":"2021-08-14T08:52:23","slug":"bug-food-and-feeding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keepingbugs.com\/bug-food-and-feeding\/","title":{"rendered":"Bug food and feeding"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
What food you feed to your bugs is vital for their health and longevity. When bugs are not appropriately fed nutritious food, they won’t live that long and have limited to non-breeding result. Food is one of the keys in proper care for your bugs. You can see that well-fed bugs will have better and brighter colours and will behave better. So, how about bug food and feeding?<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
A better question would be: what do bugs don’t <\/em><\/strong>eat? There are so many different bug species that among all of them they eat almost any food source that you can think of. Many bug species eat plants, but other bugs eat insects, and some enjoy even both. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Some bugs feed only nectar from plants. And some bugs are just a garbage pit – they eat whatever you throw into the enclosure (black soldier flies for example). <\/p>\n\n\n\n There are also a few bugs that don’t eat, for example, mayflies and some species of moths. However, you won’t have to worry about them because they only live for one day and won’t be suitable as pets though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n How do bugs eat? It might seem like an obvious question, right? They eat with their mouth. But there are differences in how bugs eat. The question of how bugs eat also focus on behaviour. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Some bugs are predators. They hunt for food. So they will need live insects to do so. It just doesn’t work to feed dead insects or at least non-moving insects. But when bugs hunt, they need food that can be hunted. For example, most mantises don’t live on the ground, so it has no use feeding them insects that only stay on the ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Other animals eat only fresh plant sources. So when you feed these bugs, you’ll need to give them fresh foliage. After a day or so, it is not fresh anymore, and indeed they don’t eat it anymore. <\/p>\n\n\n\n When you feed bugs, you’ll need to know what type of feeder it is: a carnivorous bug (eating animals), a herbivorous bug (eating plants), or an omnivorous bug (that eat both). Another essential fact to know is if the bug is a specialized feeder or a generalized feeder. With other words, do they feed only on one or a couple of feed sources, or do they eat almost anything eatable. <\/p>\n\n\n\nHow do bugs eat?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n