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Thread: palmetto bugs?

  1. 01-09-2009, 11:23 AM #1
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    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
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    Re: palmetto bugs?

    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

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    Re: palmetto bugs?

    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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    Re: palmetto bugs?

    Quote Originally Posted by punyhuman07 View Post
    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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    Re: palmetto bugs?

    Quote Originally Posted by lenastorms View Post
    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

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    Re: palmetto bugs?

    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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    Re: palmetto bugs?

    Quote Originally Posted by ilovemylizard View Post
    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...
    roaches can also grow immune to some of these poisons also
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    Re: palmetto bugs?

    Quote Originally Posted by nixer View Post
    roaches can also grow immune to some of these poisons also
    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
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