Can rose hairs or OBTs eat dermestid beetles?

[Sage Exotics]

So I bought a tub of crickets and noticed a dermestid beetle larvae. They don’t hunt things, they only feed on rotting corpses (the beetles). I put it in a vile with some dirt and I’ll see if it pupates and grows up, just for fun. If it does grow up, Can I feed it to Rose (rose hair) or Timothy (OBT)?

 

[KezyGLA]

Yes they can

 

[Sage Exotics]

Good! I’ll probably feed it to my rose hair.

 

[Enn49]

That's good to know because I get loads in my tubs of crickets and have always killed them but now I can feed them to the Ts.

 

[Dave Jay]

So I bought a tub of crickets and noticed a dermestid beetle larvae. They don’t hunt things, they only feed on rotting corpses (the beetles). I put it in a vile with some dirt and I’ll see if it pupates and grows up, just for fun. If it does grow up, Can I feed it to Rose (rose hair) or Timothy (OBT)?

I read a few articles just now, did you know that there's a website dedicated to them? Apparently the beetles are more likely to eat flowers and vegetation, it's the larvae that eat mostly flesh, not to mention carpets and linen etc (edit - I have since read contrary information stating the beetles don't eat vegetation at all, but it's a huge family and may vary from genus to genus). According to one article, it can take up to 5 months for an egg to become an adult beetle.
I get them in tubs of crickets too, the tub I sorted out last night has a beetle and 3 larvae, it might be interesting to set up a container for them.

 

[Sage Exotics]

Сооl!

 

[Dustin Amack]

When I get these in my cricket shipments, I throw them in my roach colonies to clean it up

 

[Dave Jay]

When I get these in my cricket shipments, I throw them in my roach colonies to clean it up

I read an article on using them and mealworms as cleaners in roach colonies, it suggests using both. The only provision you need to make is to add Styrofoam for the larvae to burrow into to pupate. You can use cardboard but sometimes it has a hormone added that inhibits their development. If the roach colony is small you may have to add some type of dead food to kickstart the beetle colony, once established as long as one or two roaches die a week it will be self-sustaining.
It seems that both beetles and larvae are completely harmless to living creatures so you can keep them with pretty much anything. I plan to set up a little colony tonight with the few beetles and larvae I have atm and just add more as I find them in cricket tubs. Some articles say you can feed them kibble, some go so far as to say use kibble as the substrate.
This thread sparked my interest, I usually just put them in the bin with the rest of what's left in the cricket tubs, but I've always felt guilty about it, they are live animals after all.