What else can I feed whites tree frogs?

[Whitestree frog]

I feed my whites tree frog crickets and mealworms. Can i feed it other bugs? i live in illinois and we have a lot of cicadas. what about cicadas? or like lettuce?

[daybr4ke]

Hi! White's Treefrogs can eat a wide variety of insects, but it is best if you only feed your frogs store-bought bugs to avoid passing parasites from wild insects to your frogs. They eat primarily invertebrates, hunting by movement. Good foods include roaches(Dubia roaches or turkestan roaches) of appropriate size, nightcrawler earthworms, hornworms, and maybe waxworms occasionally. Mealworms and superworms contain a lot of shell, so they're not the best feeder. Crickets with are nutritionally fine if supplemented with vitamin and calcium+d3 powder and/or gut loading, but giving your frog a varied diet can be fun and I like to think the frogs enjoy it. I hope thid helps!

[elly]

Adding that cicadas would probably be a bit too large.

[Whitestree frog]

well to start i meant once my whites tree frog gets to be a few years older because they get HUGE! but yes itt helps a lot bryce so thanks

[daybr4ke]

No problem! I'm just glad elly added the thing about Cicadas being too big. I've never seen one and assumed they were a normal sized insect. They're pretty big bugs lol.

[Whitestree frog]

is there anything like fruits or veggies tho? or maybe just worms i find in my backyard? i live in illinois i dont know what type of worms i can use. also a fully grown whites tree frog eating a cicada is like a 1yo wtf eating a medium/big cricket because the cicadas I'm talking about are the ones i find around my house which are like 3/4 of an inch tall maybe 1 inch and 1.5-2 inches long and 3/4-1 inch wide. the are like the size of two erasers stacked on top of ecahother