palmetto bugs?

can these be used as food i was just wondering or is this not even the true name they look like big roaches and play dead all the time i was thinking of gatheing up a whole bunch to use as feeders they are all over the place where i live let me know thanks jason

They are roaches. What are you looking to feed them to? Personally I wouldn't collect any bugs outside to feed to my herps, but that's me :rolleyes:

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i wasn't going to feed them to anything i just seei them all over and was just wondering thats all thanks though

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Originally Posted by punyhuman07

can these be used as food i was just wondering or is this not even the true name they look like big roaches and play dead all the time i was thinking of gatheing up a whole bunch to use as feeders they are all over the place where i live let me know thanks jason

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Originally Posted by lenastorms

They are roaches. What are you looking to feed them to? Personally I wouldn't collect any bugs outside to feed to my herps, but that's me :rolleyes:

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I would not use feeders that you have not raised or did not come from a trustworthy source.

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Originally Posted by lenastorms

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That is what I was thinking

Many larger cities, like Long Beach, CA where I used to live, spray the sewers with insecticide for these roaches, and they have solid baits for them all over the streets...

So depending on where you live, the roaches might have poison in them, and just haven't died yet...

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Originally Posted by ilovemylizard

Many larger cities, like Long Beach, CA where I used to live, spray the sewers with insecticide for these roaches, and they have solid baits for them all over the streets...

So depending on where you live, the roaches might have poison in them, and just haven't died yet...

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roaches can also grow immune to some of these poisons also

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Originally Posted by nixer

roaches can also grow immune to some of these poisons also

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Hadn't even thought of that...I imagine they would, eventually...I know I've heard that rodents can become resistant to levels of warfarin poison that would kill much larger mammals...

Wouldn't suprise me about the roaches..Those things were so big and tough, they refused to die, even when you stepped on them:O