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Hi all, I am wondering if anyone else besides me has black looking beatles in there house? Are they morphing from my worms or crickets? Or are they just coming from outside? They are big ones lol.... help me please lol

Definately not from the crickets. Crickets just get bigger lay eggs and die.

Superworms turn into a Darkling Beetle. Mealworms turn into tenebrionid beetles. Here is an address with pictures.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darkling_beetle

Silkworms turn into a moth. Butterworms are radiated prior to shipment from South America so they don't turn into anything here. Hornworms turn into moths. Phoenix Worms turn into Black Soldier Flies.

Hmmm. Did I miss any?

you missed waxworms..which also turn into a type of moth..

most likely the black beetles (about an inch or so long) are superworm beetles. I always have a few in my apartment. I feed them to my rats and blue tongue skinks...
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PHLdyPayne

Darn and I thought I had them all. lol.

I keep my supers in an old Kricket Keeper with a lid so nothing could get out anyway. But I've never even seen a beetle in there. I order 250 a month with my regular cricket order and it only lasts me a month so maybe I just don't keep them long enough.

I looked up super worms beattles.... and i do believe that is what they are... nasty things lol... they go right along with my loose crickets in the house.... LOL i guess this is what i should expect when having beardies and leopard geckos.. lol

I really don't know how my super worms get out. One time I had about two hundred escape through a small hole in the bottom corner of my critter keeper. Fortunately they all wound up inside some bags of moss I had nearby. It was a real pain sorting through three bags of moss for all the worms. That was a year ago, so I don't think I am still getting beetles from them.

I am quite positive superworms know how to climb plastic and teleport.

Anyway, this morning I found two more beetles, so I took pictures of one and feed them off to my rats. The plug in the picture is about an inch in diameter.

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PHLdyPayne