What can I feed pill bugs?

What can I feed pill bugs?

Diet. In the wild, pill bugs eat mostly decomposing vegetation — vegetables, fruits, plants, grasses and weeds. When raising pill bugs in captivity, you can feed them fish flakes, apples, carrots, potatoes, lettuces and wild leaf litter.

What attracts Rolly Polly bugs?

Rolly-pollies, also known as pill bugs, are small purplish-gray creatures that roll into a ball when they feel threatened. They are crustaceans, more closely related to lobsters and crabs than to insects. They are attracted to decaying vegetable matter, such as food in your trash and even the mulch around your home.

How do you know if a roly poly is pregnant?

Males and females can be distinguished by looking at the ventral (underside) plane. Males have copulatory organs on the anterior portion of the thorax and females have a pouch for brooding (the marsupium), if they are pregnant.

Can Rolly Pollies drink water?

Roly-polies derive most of their necessary water from the humid air and their food. Mist your captives’ enclosure daily with lukewarm bottled water.

What season do Rolly Pollies come out?

spring
Family Life. Roly poly bugs reproduce in the spring. The bugs start their lives as eggs living in a fluid-filled pouch on their mother’s body. The pouch is where they spend the first two months of their lives after they hatch.

What do Rolly Pollies eat and drink?

Roly-polies are detritivores who consume a wide variety of organic material. They primarily consume dead plants or animals, but they will occasionally eat live plants. In captivity, they will thrive on a diet of raw fruit and vegetable slices.

What attracts Rolly Pollies?

Rolly-pollies, also known as pill bugs, are small purplish-gray creatures that roll into a ball when they feel threatened. They are crustaceans, more closely related to lobsters and crabs than to insects. They are attracted to decaying vegetable matter, such as food in your trash and even the mulch around your home.

Do Rolly Pollies drink water?

Roly-polies breathe via gills; accordingly, they must inhabit areas with high humidity in order to breathe. Roly-polies derive most of their necessary water from the humid air and their food. Mist your captives’ enclosure daily with lukewarm bottled water.

Can you eat Rolly pollies?

Rolly pollies will eat most, if not all, of your food scraps. Merely leave it to them and they will make sure your leftover dinner gets turned into soil. Rolly pollies will eat meat in any state. Whether it’s cooked, uncooked or even decaying their guts can take it in, process it, and expel good, proper soil.