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Lightening bugs are deadly to beardies, even part of one can kill a full grown healthy beardie and they do not affect other reptiles.
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I'm curious about the source of this statement, b/c I know that lightning bugs will flat out kill birds and spiders, as well as beardies. The problem specific to beardies and other imported lizards is not a particular sensitivity to the toxins so much as not having ever developed an aversion to eating them, as many NA species of animal have.
Here's a paper on firefly toxins from Cornell News:
http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases...izard.hrs.html
Based on this, I wouldn't feed fireflies to
any animal.