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Message: <blockquote data-quote="m0lsx" data-source="post: 237143" data-attributes="member: 29323"><p>With slings, I have never worked out how I know if they eat or not. They are obviously small & thus, so is their appetite. I use a whole beheaded mealworm, as it is easy to find & remove. When I kept mantids, I did keep a colony of a larger species of fruit flies. But I am always wary of if a small sling will get live prey & with fruit flies, they will escape easily, so I always stuck with my dead mealworm. As a beheaded mealworm at least has it's soft inner easily available & I know it is going to be there & available as food.</p></blockquote><p></p>