Woodlice Nutritional Value?

[turborg]

Hi guys, just wondering if woodlice are any good to feed to my southern bell frogs (about 4-5cm) and also, does anyone know the nutritional value of these?

Done quite a bit of searching but cant seem to find anything except that their shell is very high in calcium?

I have a good supply of these so would be great if they are ok to use as a semi staple food

[Dog Shrink]

That's a tuff one. I found an article that pretty much seemed to state thet they are what they eat... I'm gonna look for more tho. Here's the article: http://www.bio.puc.cl/caseb/pdf/prog...ct_PE_2008.pdf

A good article on propigating and keeping woodlice: http://turtletown.giblar.com/woodlice.html

An interesting debate on feeding woodlice on my cham forum: http://www.chameleonforums.com/woodl...38/index2.html

I don't know if any of this will be helpful ut at least it's more info than you started with.

[wesleybrouwer]

To bad this research doesn't cover woodlice or springtails,
but it does show nutritional values of a lot of other feeder insects.

I have to warn you, it is in German.

http://www.bugs-international.com/in...p2g=befund.php

[Whistly]

Hi Aaron from what I've read I think if the woodlice eat nutritous food then they themselves will become nutritous so I would feed them veges if you want them to be good food for your frog. I too feed my frogs woodlice and there is a colony in the enclosure.