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Practical information on fruit flies, feeder insects, culture care, storage, hatching, and keeping your feeders productive. Written from hands-on experience—not copied care sheets.

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Buffalo Beetle Larvae: An Easy Feeder for Bioactive Setups

Buffalo Beetle Larvae: An Easy Feeder for Bioac...

Jumping spiders thrive on variety, and lesser worms — the larvae of the buffalo beetle (Alphitobius diaperinus) — are one of the easiest ways to add it. Small, slow-moving, and...

Buffalo Beetle Larvae: An Easy Feeder for Bioac...

Jumping spiders thrive on variety, and lesser worms — the larvae of the buffalo beetle (Alphitobius diaperinus) — are one of the easiest ways to add it. Small, slow-moving, and...

Bug Snackle Bento Box

Bug Snackle Bento Box

Every keeper has hit this problem: you order a big batch of a new feeder, hoping it's the thing that finally gets a picky eater interested — and the animal...

Bug Snackle Bento Box

Every keeper has hit this problem: you order a big batch of a new feeder, hoping it's the thing that finally gets a picky eater interested — and the animal...

Blue Bottle Fly Spikes: Storage, Hatching, and Feeding Guide

Blue Bottle Fly Spikes: Storage, Hatching, and ...

Blue bottle flies (Calliphora sp.) are a step up from house flies in both size and activity level — a noticeably bigger, more active fly that's good for larger tarantulas...

Blue Bottle Fly Spikes: Storage, Hatching, and ...

Blue bottle flies (Calliphora sp.) are a step up from house flies in both size and activity level — a noticeably bigger, more active fly that's good for larger tarantulas...

Mealworm Sizes Explained: Micro, Mini, Medium, and Large

Mealworm Sizes Explained: Micro, Mini, Medium, ...

Mealworms (Tenebrio molitor) are cheap, easy to store, and slow enough that jumping spiders, tarantulas, and mantids can catch them without a chase. They're a genuinely useful feeder — but...

Mealworm Sizes Explained: Micro, Mini, Medium, ...

Mealworms (Tenebrio molitor) are cheap, easy to store, and slow enough that jumping spiders, tarantulas, and mantids can catch them without a chase. They're a genuinely useful feeder — but...

Fruit Fly Strains, Sizes, and Care: A Complete Guide

Fruit Fly Strains, Sizes, and Care: A Complete ...

Fruit flies are the default staple feeder for jumping spiderlings, tarantula slings, mantis nymphs, dart frogs, mourning geckos, and pretty much anything too small to handle crickets. But "fruit fly"...

Fruit Fly Strains, Sizes, and Care: A Complete ...

Fruit flies are the default staple feeder for jumping spiderlings, tarantula slings, mantis nymphs, dart frogs, mourning geckos, and pretty much anything too small to handle crickets. But "fruit fly"...

Peanut Beetles at Home: A Feeder Culture Guide

Peanut Beetles at Home: A Feeder Culture Guide

If you keep jumping spiders, slings working their way up in size, mantids, dart frogs, or mourning geckos, you've probably hit the same wall every keeper does eventually: fruit flies...

Peanut Beetles at Home: A Feeder Culture Guide

If you keep jumping spiders, slings working their way up in size, mantids, dart frogs, or mourning geckos, you've probably hit the same wall every keeper does eventually: fruit flies...