The armata went absolutely nuts over the grasshoppers I gave them but then hoppers do habitate all levels of crops. I know there are photos of them in from the wild with them eating some of the most beautiful hoppers I have ever seen!

I hate keeping crickets though! Won't do it!


I do think they would tend to dig and forage a lot though and have feed off deformed mealworm beetles which the young animals take with greed. I am sure that in the wild if it moves and they spot it they take it!

I have not tried frogs or tadpoles but these are not abundant in my area, too arid here. In Omaha there were cricket frogs that would have been awsome size for them to feed on but up here just an occasional toad or leopard frog.

Also slugs and snails were abundant, a nusiance, in Omaha, but up here, again, it is just too dry and you rairly see any. I have found that they will take the slugs but getting them is almost impossible. I would think they would take the smails as well and would think the soft shelled ones would be an added source of mineral.

As for the lateralis hiding, I am not yet sure. I am planning to try to feed these from a dish as they are really fast moving roaches with long legs. I am sure they will climb too. Like I said before though, I haven't yet tried them as I am still building my colony. I am just hopeful that they do work out!
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