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Message: <blockquote data-quote="m0lsx" data-source="post: 238847" data-attributes="member: 29323">If I remember correctly, darkling beetles give off a smell/gas if attacked & it is that which puts off predators. With both super (morio) worms & mealworms, I have always used the beetles as dead food, breaking them open for my smaller T's & most have been happy to eat the beetles.Edited to add. I also sometimes pop pre killed beetles into my isopods.</blockquote>