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I can't find the remaining insect carcasses.

Tarantula Trooper

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Sometimes it's just damp soil some types of small flies seek out. I call them dirt flies. Had issues with this before but usually it's during the warmer months I start having problems with these things. Depending on the spood usually I let things dry a bit. Fly paper helps. Put it near the problem area. Add springtails to enclosures to help out compete the maggots. Basically I attack all areas around the flies life cycle. You can rid yourself of these pesky things but it's not always easy. Also, I have a dedicated T room and any house spiders in the room are welcome as they can trap and devour free roaming flies. But this probably won't work for all. Lol.
 

spideymom

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I can't find the remaining insect carcasses.I usually use dubia, but I can't find the leftover carcasses. Flies are appearing. Tiny little flies are buzzing around.
Tarantulas eat the entire bug especially crickets they have back teeth and crunch them right up. I never find anything an occasional back leg of a cricket.
 

Pamela mansfield

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Tarantulas eat the entire bug especially crickets they have back teeth and crunch them right up. I never find anything an occasional back leg of a cricket.
My girls never leave anything and my stirmi is an absolute unit just moulted and still good body size
 

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Eighth Eye Blind

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T's may eat some prey all the way to the last nibble. With other types they may leaves the bones.

My A. seemanni doesn't leave any evidence of crickets except for the occasional poop spot on the glass. For roaches, though, she just sucks out the tasty filling and leaves the crunchy shell for me to clean up.

Here she is with what used to be a Dubia thinking that I'm dumb enough to stick my fingers in there and remove it for her. She's dreamin'.

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Pamela mansfield

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T's may eat some prey all the way to the last nibble. With other types they may leaves the bones.

My A. seemanni doesn't leave any evidence of crickets except for the occasional poop spot on the glass. For roaches, though, she just sucks out the tasty filling and leaves the crunchy shell for me to clean up.

Here she is with what used to be a Dubia thinking that I'm dumb enough to stick my fingers in there and remove it for her. She's dreamin'.

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Tarantula Trooper

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Truly is funny how sometimes a bollus and sometimes not. I think mostly it's how hungry was the T and size of the prey item relative to the size of the T. Easy thing is just remove if found. Thing that always trips me out is when they poo and looks 3" below the substrate and it don't look like it flowed down there. Like they dug a hole, deposited, then filled back in! Crazy!!!! Happy Spoodering!
 

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