A couple days ago I put a few meal worms in for two of my anoles to eat. When i checked later in the evening there was only 1 worm left, and i decided to pick it out before i went to sleep to make sure it dind't crawl out or end up dying from cold or whatnot. I forgot to take it out...and behold it was gone the next day. I figured one of the lizards had eaten it...or it had escaped into the bark pieces. Today i heard a crunching noise and i found my smaller male eating none other than a meal worm beetle! I was kind of surprised and unsure of what to do, he seemed to be crunching it down at a regular pace, and stopped to brush away the wings from its mouth. This was a mature (black) beetle. I probably would have attempted something dumb like pulling it out of the anole's mouth but it didn't seem to have any problems with eating the beetle. I haven't put any more in and have been feeding them regularly with crickets meal worms wax worms and the occasional small dull orange/brown colored moth (they really do seem to like these). I always figured the shell of a beetle would be too hard and tough for them to eat, is it really unsafe for them? I dont plan on putting in beetles

of any kind for them to eat but i was just wondering. Thanks for any information.



Chris.

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