Christmas Beetles

[muddz]

had a swarm of christmas beetles last night and captured around 50 of them, anyone know if they'd be safe to feed to bluies, beardies and monitors?

 

[wattso]

Frogs eat them, so i dont imagine it would hurt lizards at all. The elytra may cause compaction if fed alot though.

 

[insectovor]

Yeah the lizards will love them ...only feed a few at a time

 

[Already_Gone]

Thats where all the christmas beetles have gone.... darn herpers!!! When I was a kid there used to be heaps of the gold ones but now I hardly ever even see a brown one (beetle that is)!!!

 

[ackie]

seeing as once i had a christmas beetle in my ear and digging further in, before my ackie eats em i make sure that the beetles are dead.

 

[muddz]

the beetles only survived one night in captiviy. the remainder of the live ones were offered after i removed the elytra, thanks for the tip wattso