Feeding Bean Beetles, Fruit Flies

[jc31]

Sorry if this is a newbie question...

What is the best way to feed dusted Bean Beetles & Fruit Flies? Do you let them free range in the enclosure? Cup Feeding? I have a full throttle feeder hanging in his cage.

Obviously I want to avoid small insects all over my house...if possible.

Thanks,

 

[Chameleophlaged]

I put them on a small shallow dish that they can climb up onto the rim and walk around the edge. I set the dish in the branches of a bush/tree/plant wherever--high in the cage. The flies crawl onto the branches and leaves and eventually all over. Mels are so small that sometimes they can crawl right through the screen, as can fresh pinhead crickets--learned that the hard way, had hundreds in my living room 10 minutes after putting them in. Hydeii can't. Beetles stay on the plate most of the time because they fall off easily..

This works as a method to free range these in small enclosures for babies, the downside is that you have to put a whole lot of them in there , the upside, they eat a large number of small things, which is what happens in nature.

After listening to the Chameleon podcast with Petr Necas on Jacksons, I have been trying to figure out a good way to gutload these tiny types. I tried to dust with bee pollen, even the finest ground I can find doesn't seem to coat them, but dissolving the pollen in water then soaking a small piece of cotton ball to put in with the flies for an hour or so seems to work, at least it looks like it does, the flies are all over the cotton ball.