The frog has no troubles with the various other feeders even at longer distances she is able to snatch them right up. She nabbed a large chunky nightcrawler last night; it made me happy and I think it made her happy too as she smacked her lips for quite some time afterwardsI'll start drying the worms off next time to see if that helps. I can barely keep the worms from sliding out of my feeding tongs so I know for a fact they have a nice and slimy protective coating.