Safe outdoor food for feeders?

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Parasites are not likely to pass on to future generations of bugs? I'd have no problem feeding wild caught to native species but I wonder about exotics. Maybe very strict segregation of cultures by age and keeping the insects environment clean would help with that. It seems like if I keep frogs at some point I'll need to learn to cultivate insects considering the nearest pet store is 30 miles away. (I don't know whether to trust live bait stores. Then again, I've read some people suspect their pets got parasites from pet store crickets, so...)

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If I did cultivate a native species, I might go with rolly-pollies/ pillbugs or the tiny centipedes which are everywhere. The native toads love them and they appear fat and happy. Really fat. One of them I saw was over four inches and nearly as big around.