Are these isopods?

[BocaJan]

I found these bugs running around my cricket nursery today. Only moms should have been in there laying eggs so I removed them to another container. I was going to toss them then I thought - maybe these are the things I've been trying to get. I thought they might be the potato bugs that come sometimes in a box of crickets, but those will fly.

I know the pics aren't very good but if you can verify they are isopods I will put them in my brev habitat. I just got a new 20 gal. tank to make a bigger home for my brevs and I will keep the 10 gal. for babies.

So...are they isopods or aren't they?

 

[Monkeykungphu]

Doesn't look like the typical "rolly pollies" that we have here in TX or in Louisiana where I'm really from. Ours are shorter, wider & more of a glossy, lighter grey back. Not sure if it's just your picture or not, but yours look darker...

Doesn't mean what you're looking at isn't an isopod however. Isopod is another word for a type of crustacean, so yours could just be a different species perhaps. We don't see those here that I know though.

 

[Red Island]

No those are the bugs that come with some crickets, they're supposed to be the clean up crew for some cricket breeders. They turn into beetles.

 

[BocaJan]

Hello! Just a friendly howdy from Boca to another So. Fla. person

 

[Breanna]

can you feed the beetles to your chameleon?

 

[Motherlode Chameleon]

They look like some kind of isopod to me. They may be immature kind of rolly polly I have seen a similar type here in California. Exactly what species I could not say.

 

[BocaJan]

can you feed the beetles to your chameleon?

I need isopods to put into my brev habitat. I wasn't planning on feeding them to anything unless they are just plain bugs. Maybe my veileds will eat them. I guess I will just have to wait until Danny rounds me up some.

 

[Motherlode Chameleon]

I need isopods to put into my brev habitat. I wasn't planning on feeding them to anything unless they are just plain bugs. Maybe my veileds will eat them. I guess I will just have to wait until Danny rounds me up some.

Brevs would probably eat the isopods if they are small enough. My Quadricornis and Montiums loved both types of Rollie Pollies (although the two types may just be immature isopods vs adult isopods).

 

[gary1621]

They are a hairy little crawling little bug thing found in crickets, my tubs had loads in!! The do turn into beetles eventually.

I've put them in with my adult Brevs and have had no problems so far I thought they'd help the woodlouse and springtails with the clean up.

I dont see the need to put them in with the babies because they get cleaned out every other day or so.

 

[Lizardlover]

They are dermestids, they dont do too well as a part of the cleanup crew, the humidity of the pyg enclosure normally kills them.

 

[Motherlode Chameleon]

Here's a site for isopods.

http://doubleds.org/newotherfeederpg.html

Good luck!!