I have a black/brown beetle in a cricket box. Does anyone know what kind of beetle it is and whether it is dangerous for the crickets or my gecko?
I was looking in my crickets' box and saw a beetle in an empty cricket box that looked black and brown. My girlfriend and I took a picture of it using the photo function on Google and looked up what kind of beetle it was. We didn't get any concrete or helpful answers though, which is why I'm asking here. Does anyone know what kind of beetle this is and whether it's dangerous or harmful to the crickets or my leopard gecko? I feed my gecko crickets and have also fed him the crickets from the now empty box, but I haven't seen any beetle. I only saw the beetle when it was empty. The beetle can also fly.
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I already did. I fed the fodder. Don’t worry about it. Have you ever heard the ones that are put in to eat the food of food (to make clean)
Would actually make sense. Thank you for your experience!
Unfortunately, the pictures are bad, but so it seems to resemble a flour beetle, only with brighter coloring, so possibly a feed pest whose larva has entered the box. He certainly does not harm the geckos, perhaps they simply eat it with or perhaps he does not taste them, because at least the adult flour beetles but a bad smell when they feel threatened. The larvae of the flour beetles are the flour worms which are sold as animal feeds and which occur in the case of lack of hygiene in flour storage (screated cereals as animal feed).
I couldn’t make better photos, that’s just my quality😅 The Gecko didn’t eat the beetle, but now somehow the beetle was doing something with the little ones, and I then fed the “infected” homes to my Gecko, which I don’t hope.
The only thing a beetle would do with the little ones would eat them if he was a predator, but after one Beetle – Wikipedia he doesn’t look like shape.
Perhaps also Agrypnus murinus / Mausgrauer Schnellkäfer (syn. Adelocera murina) / Fast beetle – Elateridae – Agrypininae (naturspaziergang.de) who has lost himself, one recognizes him when one puts him on the back and then he “fastens” that have a kind of spring mechanism in the back.
There were actually already dead homes inside when buying, but I don’t know if they died of course (hungry etc.) or if the bug really killed them and eaten them. But think that the little ones died in a natural way. Good to know this could have been, thank you!