I’ve got all these spiders getting to a size where fruit flies don’t cut it anymore, and unfortunately, my mealworm colony crashed, I tried buying live critters online but they’re expensive and half of them died en route thanks to the bitter cold, so I was panicking that this new generation of black widows might go hungry. This is not good. I was planning to start breeding in the next week or so, and hungry females are more likely to feed than to…ummm, mate.
Ice fishing season to the rescue, just in the nick of time! This time of year a popular bait is the lowly wax worm, so I was able to get a few dozen quite cheaply at the local bait shoppe.
Spiders love these things, but I can only get them during ice-fishing season. Fortunately, that lasts until April/May, so by then my mealworms should be back on track.
I wonder how long it will be before we humans (the non-billionaires) are reduced to eating meal worms. I hear they are a good source of protein, even if they offend vegetarians and probably taste like old tires.
“There’s that weird guy again. He’s always buying bait but I never see him fishing”.
I once tried crickets and they were gritty dust. P Z are you going to offer a home to the thousand Tarantulas found by British customs a while ago?
Speaking of wormy spider food, I just read that Mr. Pillow Guy, Mike Lindell, is running for governor of Minnesota. How exciting.
robro@4
You could feed a lot of spiders with one pillow guy. And probably sell a lot of tickets to an avid audience.
Too far? I’ll show myself out.
I found there is a surpringly (to me) large content on the internet on ‘why did my mealworm colony collapse’.
This feels like it could be an intro to a horror movie. When will the spiders notice there are some much better sources of nutrition moving around in the house than those lowly wax worms?