A good staple?
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pssh
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Crickets, roaches, silkworms, and hornworms are good for the more often fed feeders, but you can't just feed worms. they need chitin in their diet from superworms, crickets, roaches, stick insects, grass hoppers, and other hard shelled bugs. You can also feed butterworms, wax worms, phoenix worms, fruit flies, house flies, blue bottle flies, praying mantis, snails, worms, and non toxic moths and butterflies.
Ryan Jarosek
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Most adult chameleons will not eat such a tiny worm. I would recommend silk worms as a primary , but still feel its important to offer crickets as part of a varied diet.
Ryan Jarosek
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pssh
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Call them beetles then. 
I LOVE them. They dont smell or run fast, so if you drop one they dont get away as long as you aren't slower than a snail.
Plus they dont bite your lizards like crickets can/do. They really are a fantastic feeder. here are some care sheets:
http://www.nyworms.com/dubiacare.htm
http://www.buydubia.com/pages/Blaptica-dubia-Care-Sheet.html
http://www.lizard-landscapes.com/roach.html
I LOVE them. They dont smell or run fast, so if you drop one they dont get away as long as you aren't slower than a snail. Plus they dont bite your lizards like crickets can/do. They really are a fantastic feeder. here are some care sheets:
http://www.nyworms.com/dubiacare.htm
http://www.buydubia.com/pages/Blaptica-dubia-Care-Sheet.html
http://www.lizard-landscapes.com/roach.html
dodolah
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Why dont you breed roaches? B. Dubias dont smell, jump, fly, climb, bite, smell, jump, SMELL, and they come in sizes from 1/4 of an inch to two inches. Plus they have more meat than crickets and they look like big rollie pollies!
correction, they do jump and fly.
Not often, but they certainly can fly.
Ryan Jarosek
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OldSkoolxReasons
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Yes dubia will jump one out of every hundred times you grab them and i have seen a male that I dropped kinda sorta fly. he just mainly used his flapping wings to navigate the landing so I wouldn't call it flying per se, but I do think it would be possible for them to. I've been using them as feeders for 6 months and haven't had any escape or get away yet so they are very easy to maintain/ eaasier to breed than cricket/ don't smell/ and have more meat per square millimeter than crickets On the otehr hand crickets get away all the time and can nibble on your animals if they are left in the cages, its neveer happened to me but it can happen. Plus if you are lazy like me and don't want to clean the thing out once or twice a week they can sometimes get smelly. Mine didn't very often but when they did it was bad. I only clean teh roaches out every month or so or when I see mold or something. Plus you don't have many, if any, die offs like you would with crickets.
On the otehr hand crickets get away all the time and can nibble on your animals if they are left in the cages, its neveer happened to me but it can happen. Plus if you are lazy like me and don't want to clean the thing out once or twice a week they can sometimes get smelly. Mine didn't very often but when they did it was bad. I only clean teh roaches out every month or so or when I see mold or something. Plus you don't have many, if any, die offs like you would with crickets.
Ryan Jarosek
New Member
I guess technically Dodolah is correct again.. if you use the definition below. I will have to agree unless he was using fly like example c. Then I will have to disagree. Now forget anyone said anything about flying and get some roaches.
To engage in flight, especially:
a. To move through the air by means of wings or winglike parts.
b. To travel by air: We flew to Dallas.
c. To operate an aircraft or spacecraft.
edit: just in case you do not think so , "b" is possible its how I got about 200 of my adults. 2 day air to be exact.
To engage in flight, especially:
a. To move through the air by means of wings or winglike parts.
b. To travel by air: We flew to Dallas.
c. To operate an aircraft or spacecraft.
edit: just in case you do not think so , "b" is possible its how I got about 200 of my adults. 2 day air to be exact.
OldSkoolxReasons
New Member
They are just too heavy and their wings too feeble to jump up and fly upward as opposed to gliding downwards. Mine don't even have a lid and I sleep very well at night.
Ryan Jarosek
New Member
I have a few thousand without a lid... no issues. Personally , I have actually never seen a male attempt to fly jump etc
dodolah
Retired Moderator
Youtube used to have a video clip of blaptica dubia taking off and fly to try to escape from the plastic bin.
Couldn't find it anymore for some reason..
Albeit rare, male dubia does have the ability to do so.
Ryan, don't be silly.. squirrel don't fly! they glide
