Pest moths as feeders?

[tyrel]

My garage is full of grain/sweater/flour eating pest moths. It seems that these moths are good munchies for small critters like my jumpers and former mantids, but do you think that they are nutritionally balanced enough to use as a main staple?

 

[Sof]

I've fed my wolf and fishing spiders with those types of moths and had no problem. Although I did vary what they ate sometimes, but thats almost all I used to feed my fishing spider until it got bigger.

 

[tyrel]

I've fed my wolf and fishing spiders with those types of moths and had no problem. Although I did vary what they ate sometimes, but thats almost all I used to feed my fishing spider until it got bigger.

Thats good to know. I guess I wouln't have to feed gutloaded pinheads to my jumpers unless I was breeding them.

I've heard friutflies are low in nutrients though, is that true?

 

[Louise E. Rothstein]

Nutritional fruitflies

Thats good to know. I guess I wouln't have to feed gutloaded pinheads to my jumpers unless I was breeding them.

I've heard fruitflies are low in nutrients though, is that true?

-It is not true unless your flies are too old,too diseased,too cold,or too poorly fed to realize their nutritional potential.

 

[Steven Gielis]

lab breed fruitflies are indeed not nutritional enough. If good fed, there shouldn't be any problem. Mostly the food is completly used after the fruitflies bred and you are just feeding empty shells. So you should at some more fruitmix after the fruitflies hadge. I find it more easy to feed pinheads as they are easier to feed and they don't run in mass out of the box.

 

[RVS]

I've used these to feed mantids before, but never as a staple diet of them. There's not alot of meat to them and the mantids would always leave the wings. I'd assume the jumpers will too.

 

[tyrel]

I've used these to feed mantids before, but never as a staple diet of them. There's not alot of meat to them and the mantids would always leave the wings. I'd assume the jumpers will too.

I think they have enough meat for the jumpers I'm feeding them too. This one is a tiny zebra jumper.

Over The winter, would any jumpers eat tiny mealworms?