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Originally Posted by NPasquinelli
Someone please correct me if I am wrong, but I have seen Dermestid labeled and sold as "cleaning crews" for feeder colonies because they eat the all of the things that you would normally have to clean out while leaving your living colony in tact. Assuming that is the case, I wouldnt necessarily take their presence as a sign of filthy facility.
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yes. and they are legal to ship across state lines....well maybe not to FL. I'd have to check that. they are commonly sold to people (as one person stated already) to clean vertebrate skeletons.
the term "flesh eating" is a bit of an exaggeration here as well. they eat dead tissue and only dead tissue. they are a scavenger species. i was going to start a colony but it is too hot here to keep them outside and i don't want rotting flesh of any animal (vert or not) in my house.