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my emperors are never hungary for crickets anymore.
food is literally bursting from the soil in thier tank.
a few weeks ago i was watering my scorps late one night when i noticed both my emperor enclosure as well as my forest scorpion tank were full of thousands of tiny crickets.
i have been leaving slices of orange in the tanks for the baby crickets which is nice because i feed them to spiderlings and my baby frogs.
but even before this there have been 3 other types of edible intruders, 4 if you count the wolf spider i watched climb into the emperor tank and then get eaten shortly after.
the first are ordinary sow bugs (isopods) i have no idea how they got in there but they have been popping up from the soil intermitently.
and from what i have seen my scorps love the taste of them.
as well as this there have been these tiny little beetles which i can usually find in my back yard in socal, again i do not know how they came to be however they are no more, digested to the last.
then the last and most annoying are the remnants of superworms (zoophobs) that have spent months in the soil and popped up as darkling beetles.
normally i catch these and let them go as my scorpions have no interest in them, i often find them hiding in the same hole as my scorps sometimes even just hanging out on top of them. they have been steadily appearing often in numbers for the last 3 months or so.
for some reason (forest scorps included) none of my scorpions have ever eaten these beetles or even attacked them, they completely disregard them.
until recently my 2nd smallest emp which i got when it was in it's 3'rd instar, sense it last molted it now kills these beetles on sight but it never eats them, and i have watched time and time again, it is the only scorpion i have that attacks these things, and it does the same thing every time, it pulls thier head off and some times a wing and then just walks away.
these beetles smell much worse than the local stink bugs we have here, a potentil reason these are left alone by the scorpions?
it would make my life easier if they would just eat the damn buggers.
food is literally bursting from the soil in thier tank.
a few weeks ago i was watering my scorps late one night when i noticed both my emperor enclosure as well as my forest scorpion tank were full of thousands of tiny crickets.
i have been leaving slices of orange in the tanks for the baby crickets which is nice because i feed them to spiderlings and my baby frogs.
but even before this there have been 3 other types of edible intruders, 4 if you count the wolf spider i watched climb into the emperor tank and then get eaten shortly after.
the first are ordinary sow bugs (isopods) i have no idea how they got in there but they have been popping up from the soil intermitently.
and from what i have seen my scorps love the taste of them.
as well as this there have been these tiny little beetles which i can usually find in my back yard in socal, again i do not know how they came to be however they are no more, digested to the last.
then the last and most annoying are the remnants of superworms (zoophobs) that have spent months in the soil and popped up as darkling beetles.
normally i catch these and let them go as my scorpions have no interest in them, i often find them hiding in the same hole as my scorps sometimes even just hanging out on top of them. they have been steadily appearing often in numbers for the last 3 months or so.
for some reason (forest scorps included) none of my scorpions have ever eaten these beetles or even attacked them, they completely disregard them.
until recently my 2nd smallest emp which i got when it was in it's 3'rd instar, sense it last molted it now kills these beetles on sight but it never eats them, and i have watched time and time again, it is the only scorpion i have that attacks these things, and it does the same thing every time, it pulls thier head off and some times a wing and then just walks away.
these beetles smell much worse than the local stink bugs we have here, a potentil reason these are left alone by the scorpions?
it would make my life easier if they would just eat the damn buggers.
