I have been using bean weevils more than I used to, mainly because I have so many of them. Certain frogs, such as my rubber frogs and Colorado River toad, I am comfortable feeding these insects too. Others, like my one surviving dart frog and baby red-eyes, I am not so comfortable feeding bean weevils to.

In the past week I had no choice but to feed out weevils. The fruit fly and cricket cultures had not produced anything at that time (they are now!) Long story short, everything is A-OK. No one died!

I guess my paranoia stems from last spring when I first got the weevil cultures. I fed a bunch out to one of my blue darts (I had two at the time, both house seperately). He went nuts eating them. After that he sat in his water bowl for about 24 hours or so, then died. I just assumed the cause of death was impaction from eating so many bean weevils, as he had been fine up untill that point.

So since then, I have only used them in combination with other feeder insects, except for recently when I had no other choice.