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<blockquote data-quote="Dave Jay" data-source="post: 144213" data-attributes="member: 27677"><p>Yes, Flesh Eating Beetle larva!!! Mah hah hahhh!</p><p>I just like the name! They're a relative of the carpet beetle, suppliers of live food use them as a clean up crew, they eat any dead flesh present, ie dead roaches and crickets. They're mainly used by taxidermists to clean skulls and skeletons, they much prefer flesh, but if pushed will eat hides and hair. I have a little colony and they clean bones up nicely, but will not eat fresh meat, it needs to be semi dried otherwise they're just not interested.</p><p>They're harmless, it's probably a good idea to add it back to the feeder colony once you set it back up, they stop the stink from dead insects in the colony.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dave Jay, post: 144213, member: 27677"] Yes, Flesh Eating Beetle larva!!! Mah hah hahhh! I just like the name! They're a relative of the carpet beetle, suppliers of live food use them as a clean up crew, they eat any dead flesh present, ie dead roaches and crickets. They're mainly used by taxidermists to clean skulls and skeletons, they much prefer flesh, but if pushed will eat hides and hair. I have a little colony and they clean bones up nicely, but will not eat fresh meat, it needs to be semi dried otherwise they're just not interested. They're harmless, it's probably a good idea to add it back to the feeder colony once you set it back up, they stop the stink from dead insects in the colony. [/QUOTE]
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