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Uneaten bugs

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Just curious, how does everyone "treat" the leftover bugs? I'll start:

Mealworms - if escaped from food bowl, I'll throw them out. If they remained in the food bowl, I'll recycle them to the mealworm bin.
Supers and crickets - cut off their heads with cuticle scissors before putting them in the rubbish bin.
Silkworms - toss them in the rubbish bin without killing, as cutting them in halves seem very messy; they can't live long anyway after dusting.

I'll have some roaches ready to feed off in a month or so, I think I'll also cut them in halves before throwing them out. So, how do you do it?

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I can feed a lot of things to my tiger salamander, who is right now incredibly obese. I can't feed him for like 4 days to a week after he has a large silkie, which is a problem because I have about six or seven right now that are medium large...
 
I do not re feed any bug, if a mealie gets out its gone, crickets are allowed to live for an hour after being fed, then they are shop vac'd out. Call me paranoid but I don't want eat sloppy seconds so I don't expect my critters to either.

Even with non escaped mealies or supers, every other day, even with gutload in the dish and supplements and a slice of fruit, the worms, gutload etc are all thrown out and a new clean dish is put it.
 
Oh! Wrong direction! I'm actually after the process before you throw them out. e.g. leftover cricket - do you squash it? drown it? To me, cutting their heads off with scissors seems more convenient...etc. And are there different treatments to different insect types?
 
Oh! Wrong direction! I'm actually after the process before you throw them out. e.g. leftover cricket - do you squash it? drown it? To me, cutting their heads off with scissors seems more convenient...etc. And are there different treatments to different insect types?
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Ok, I see. Well, generally I just throw them in the trashcan. I guess if you are worried about them climbing out you can flush them down the toilet.
 
Just dont let any silk or hornworms outside. LOL

The crickets I just squish when I use them, the others just go in the trash. Never really worried about the mealies going to the city dump, im sure they have a blast there :raspberry
 
I usually flush the worms and let the crickets go. I figured that if the gladiator (cricket) can survive captivity and survive almost certain death by being eaten by a fearsome gecko, he deserves to be set free.
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I put whatever's left out in the bird feeder. Makes the wild birds real happy,especially in the cold months
 
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