Can I feed these things...

[dawn]

I fed Elektra (Tylo. verr.) her first slug today, a very tiny light-colored one (it must have been freshly hatched from its egg, it was so small). Well, I thought she was already pretty full of worms, but she grabbed at that thing so greedily I thought she was going to take the tweezers with it!

 

[rodrigo]

Told ya hehe.....don´t know why but they love them.....even more than they do love earthworms.

 

[jennifer]

Regarding the 3rd photo, I would say that this is almost certainly an ordinary baby earthworm. Good newt food!

 

[dawn]

It sure was easy to find earthworms today!
(We had a deluge here in the Northeast.)
I also found this, I believe that this is a japanese beetle grub.
Anyone know if they're OK? I'm thinking they probably are. In the next
couple weeks I'll be cleaning up my garden and I know I'll be finding a lot.
Speaking of JB grubs, how about the beetle itself, anyone know if they're OK?

 

[tony]

looks like it could possibily be a bess/stag beetle grub too. i commonly find these grubs and adults. the adults have large mandible and play dead,tuck in there legs when bothered with mandibles open ready to pinch. if the grubs are the same the mandibles are large too. i once crushed the mandible's on the grub and try to offer it to one of my marbled sals but it was ignored. not sure about the adult japanese beetles they don't look as menacing as a bess beetle but may be able to hurt a softbodied salalmander

 

[cameron]

It is too small. I think it is a June Beetle grub. Try not to feed it to your newts unless you break off its head like I do with other beetle larvae.

 

[jonathan]

what cameron said. I just fed one of these guys to my taricha a couple of weeks ago after taking off the head. I've even read that it's okay for human consumption, if one were into that sort of thing.
looks like it'd be a fatty food source though, so be careful.