CATDOLL : CATDOLL: What food can fireflies feed to keep them alive?

1. What do fireflies eat and where do they live?

Fireflies feed on snails, not leaves.

In nature, they often live in grass and bushes near water and move around nearby.

2. What do you eat when you catch fireflies?

Fireflies are carnivorous when they are larvae, and their food includes snails, slugs, snails, earthworms, etc.

After transforming into adults, fireflies almost never eat or drink, and only consume dew and nectar, eventually starving themselves to death. Only a few adult fireflies will prey on small insects or other types of fireflies.

When firefly larvae find prey such as snails, they will first spray anesthetic toxins with the needles in their mouths. After the prey is anesthetized, they will inject a digestive enzyme to break the food into a thin and soft gravy, and then suck the juice with their mouths.

3. What do fireflies eat?

Fireflies are small carnivorous beetles that feed on snails.

If a snail encounters any danger, it will retract its head into its hard shell, and many of its natural enemies are helpless against it.

How can a small, weak and clumsy firefly deal with it? There is a pair of jaws on the top of the firefly's head, which are as thin as hair and very sharp.

When a firefly catches a snail, it first taps the snail gently with its jaws. The snail does not take the firefly seriously at all and even thinks that being tapped a few times is very comfortable, like a massage.

The tapping of a firefly is to inject it with a kind of venom.

The snail was paralyzed without realizing it until it lost consciousness.

When the snail is poisoned, the firefly injects another liquid, turning the snail's flesh into a liquid, which it then drinks with its tubular mouth.

IV.20 What is the simplest way to breed fireflies?

A transparent glass bottle, preferably one that is relatively wide and has a wide mouth, clean it.

Method/Step 2:

The next thing, of course, is to catch fireflies. Although fireflies can fly, they usually lie motionless on leaves and are very easy to catch.

Method/Step 3:

After catching fireflies, remember to seal the bottle mouth with a fine net or gauze in time.

Method/Step 4:

Rearing environment

Pick some fresh grass and flowers and put them in a glass bottle. The lifespan of adult fireflies is very short, and they only eat some dew, juice, pollen and the like, so you don’t have to worry too much about what to feed them.

Method/Step 5:

During the breeding process, sprinkle some water appropriately to provide them with life support. Dew is the best.

Method/Step 6:

snails

Although it is a bit cruel, it is true that fireflies eat snails, especially in the larval stage. During the breeding process, we can catch a few snails. At this time, since it is a transparent glass bottle, interested friends can observe the process of fireflies eating snails.

Method/Step 7:

It is also possible to use a glass cover, but remember to ventilate it every once in a while. Fireflies are not very active, so they will not fly away even if the glass cover is opened for a while. Putting some flowers on it can be a decoration, and if you are giving it as a gift, you can put some pretty flowers.

Method/Step 8:

Finally, remember to release them in time. Fireflies released at night are like stars flying back into the sky, very beautiful. Suitable for chasing girls.

5. How to feed firefly larvae?

Firefly cubs are carnivorous, mainly eating snails, field snails and shells. Although firefly larvae are very small, they have a special trick to catch snails. When the firefly cubs find a snail, they will first use their needles to prick the snail several times, mainly to give the snail an anesthetic. The firefly will spray a toxin to paralyze the snail, and then inject a digestive enzyme until the snail is turned into delicious gravy, and then call its companions to insert the syringe into the snail meat and suck out the gravy.