Garters eating INSECTS!!!

[ssssnakeluvr]

speaking of snakes eating insects.I saw a thread on another forum where copperheads were climbing into bushes and eating cicadas.apparently they love them and it is quite common.

thats not unusual for them...however they can digest them and get nourishment from them....garters don't get nourishment from insects....racers and green snakes eat insects..they were built by nature to do that...it's best to stick with their known diet..

[person365]

but kyle's first snake from about three years ago ate crickets all the time and lived for 8 months until he was accidently killed from the water being to hot from his bath.

[adamanteus]

I wish I hadn't missed this topic while it was still 'hot'.
I'm inclined to agree with Stefan.... the fact that a Garter will accept a waxworm from forceps in captivity in no way suggests that they would eat such prey in the wild. My garters will accept pretty much anything from the forceps. Show me evidence of arthropod prey remains in the faeces of a wild Garter, and I might get interested.

[Zephyr]

I wish I hadn't missed this topic while it was still 'hot'.
I'm inclined to agree with Stefan.... the fact that a Garter will accept a waxworm from forceps in captivity in no way suggests that they would eat such prey in the wild. My garters will accept pretty much anything from the forceps. Show me evidence of arthropod prey remains in the faeces of a wild Garter, and I might get interested.

I might just be the guy to test that.
You've got me going James. lol

[infernalis]

"Herping for poop" Kyle????

Sorry bro, had to.. The door was wide open for that.

[Zephyr]

"Herping for poop" Kyle????

Sorry bro, had to.. The door was wide open for that.

"Where finds snake food, one finds snake." < My motto.
Motto amendment> "Where ones finds snakes, one finds snake poo."

[Faunaofthenorth]

personally I wouldn't give them insects period....(sorry, missed most fo the last few days home sick...still trying to kick it!).... I force fed some insects to garters when I was young and didn't know any better...they passed out the back end looking just like they did when they went in....I gave them flies and they came out looking like flies..not snake poop if they had been able to digest them.....

LOL that is funny, but true garters should not be fed insects if they dont have to...although i have observed a baby eastern garter trying to eat a small spider in the wild, it only got it half way into its mouth until it just sat there staring..then it regurgitated it...and also i found snake poop one time next to a den and i noticed that there was an insect in it, but like you said it looked just like it went it, just dried up a bit

[salzar]

hi all do you remember the BP or burmese python that ate a heating pad , it was on tv a couple of years ago, yea the guy did not think such a thing would happen and had to have the poor thing operated on , it survived luckly but hay you never know.
bye
michelle

[drache]

my friend's kingsnake had a catnip mouse cat toy half swallowed before they realized what he was doing