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Old 12-04-2008, 11:54 AM
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Can you feed these to lizards.
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My beardies eat them. Wild dragons eat a lot of beetles, given that they are far easier to catch than faster-moving insects. If they are gutloaded them I don't see a problem with them for beardies - I don't know for other species of lizard though.
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Old 12-04-2008, 04:11 PM
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my leos eat them too, they like them more than the mealworms, but they all like spiders best of all, if only they could be cultured
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yep all my lizards love em
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Old 12-04-2008, 05:11 PM
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my beardies used to eat them, when the marios and mealies had buried themselves they used to dig and find them in the "change" state and also a beetle would appear now and again
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my leos eat them too, they like them more than the mealworms, but they all like spiders best of all, if only they could be cultured
Find wild egg sacks. Quite common if you have a shed.
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Old 13-04-2008, 11:14 AM
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Find wild egg sacks. Quite common if you have a shed.
how do you grow them on when they hatch? i found a load of egg sacks in the summer house yesterday
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Old 13-04-2008, 01:43 PM
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my bosc makes quick work of them as soon as he sees one
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Have you felt how hard there exoskeleton are... Wouldn't that cause impactation. People theory that mealworms cause severe impactation but these beetles have harder exoskeletons, so isn't that worse.

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Old 13-04-2008, 07:19 PM
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I give them to my Beardies. not very often I find any though tbh.
Never given them to my Leo's though.
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