🥜 Peanut Beetle Starter Culture ✨ Starter colony with larvae ready to feed

Full starter culture setup of peanut beetles! 🥜 *Coleoptera Ulomoides dermestoides*

These beetles produce soft-bodied larvae that are like tiny mealworms. They are super easy to care for, reproduce quickly, and simple to harvest.

The larvae are incredibly nutritious (~55% protein and 18% fat) and can feed:

🐸Poison dart frogs and other small frogs
🐟Betta fish and other small fish
🦎Crested geckos, mourning geckos and other small geckos
🥚Baby chameleons
🦗Mantises
🕷️Jumping spiders and tarantula spiderlings

Why peanut beetles?

- Constant supply of food ready to go as they produce larvae
- Don’t require much space at all. Some people even use deli cups for their small cultures!
- Odorless! Bc we all deal with enough stinky stuff already 🥲
- Safe and nutritious
- Flightless and biteless!

What's included
- Fresh peanuts and oats
- A mix of adult beetles, larvae, and eggs
- Simple instructions for maintaining (and growing) the colony
⚠️These guys come in a deli cup - if you want the full starter package with a habitat go here

DO NOT USE THE ADULT BEETLES AS FEEDERS! Only feed the larvae. The adults are difficult to digest and have a bitterant as a defense so they taste bad too

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