CATDOLL : CATDOLL: What do fireflies eat when they grow up?

1. How to raise adult fireflies?

The feeding device can be a wire cage or a glass bottle, but be sure to leave ventilation holes. You can also use a transparent plastic box, but also be sure to leave ventilation holes. It is best to use iron gauze as a cover. This kind of insect will not fight or bite each other, so multiple insects can be raised together. You can put some young locust leaves or freshly picked grass in the bottle, and cover the bottle mouth with plastic gauze, iron gauze or gauze. It is advisable to maintain a certain humidity in the bottle. You can sprinkle a little water every day, and spray some water before feeding the young grass or locust leaves.

After fireflies transform into adults, most species of fireflies hardly eat or drink, and often only eat dew, honeydew or pollen and nectar. In South America, a few species of firefly adults will glow and prey on other types of fireflies or small phototactic insects as food.

2. What is the best food for fireflies?

Fireflies are carnivorous when they are larvae, and their food is snails, slugs, snails, earthworms, etc. After metamorphosis to adults, fireflies almost do not eat or drink, only dew and nectar, and eventually starve themselves to death. Only a few adult fireflies will prey on small insects or other types of fireflies.

Fireflies are small animals that actually have a very short lifespan. The main food they eat in their lifetime is the dew on the leaves of flowers, or the juice from the stems and leaves of flowers, and the pollen in the flowers. These things are their main food. Of course, in addition to these foods, fireflies also eat a special small animal, which is snails. Although snails look bigger than fireflies, in fact, when they are larvae, they also eat snails as a source of food to replenish the energy needed by the body, allowing themselves to grow faster.

3. What do fireflies eat?

Larvae: Firefly larvae are carnivorous. Terrestrial fireflies larvae mostly eat smaller snails. Adults: After metamorphosis, most fireflies do not eat or drink, and often only eat dew, honeydew, pollen, and nectar. However, in South America, a few species of fireflies will glow and prey on other fireflies or small phototactic insects.