3:00 snapshot #1365 bugs (well, no actually--coleopterans and hymenopterans if you please)

[urbpan]

Zookeeper Jake gets some superworms for me.


I got called to deal with this wasp's nest. I dealt with it by explaining that it was a mud dauber, that it won't bother anybody--it will just grow up eating the delicious paralyzed spiders it's mommy made for it and then fly away some day. Not all stinging insects are pests.

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[wirrrn.livejournal.com]

The first ones are mealworms?

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

Zophobos morio, a larger darkling beetle species than the standard yellow mealworms. We're feeding out 36 grams a day (to meerkats) which would exhaust the mealworm supply pretty quickly, so superworms are better.