can chams eat butterflys?

[backwood fred]

i was wondering if chams can eat wild cought butterflys? my girlfrend cought some butterflys in the garden and i was wondering if i could feed them to my chams

 

[skully23]

Sounds like a good idea. I want to know the samething with any wild insects thats good for a chameleon

 

[summoner12]

depends on the butterfly.... painted ladies are OK... but you can't feed monarch... they eat milkweed which is bad for your cham... not sure if it'll kill the cham, but I know it is a baaad idea.

another thing to remember is that wild insects eat all sorts of things.... things you may not want and probably shouldn't feed your cham.

 

[anlexanok123]

depends on the butterfly.... painted ladies are OK... but you can't feed monarch... they eat milkweed which is bad for your cham... not sure if it'll kill the cham, but I know it is a baaad idea.

another thing to remember is that wild insects eat all sorts of things.... things you may not want and probably shouldn't feed your cham.

I know I won't know for sure until either Kip molts or I get a DNA test, but the behaviour being shown recently kind of makes me think that Kip is a late blooming male.
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[happy14]

My chameleons loves butterfly´s so much!

 

[satch4684]

parasites probably not much of an issue w/ butterflies, though, eh? at least i haven't heard of it, but everytime i've seen a wild one its black and orange, which im guessing is the poisonous monarch.

 

[summoner12]

I know I won't know for sure until either Kip molts or I get a DNA test, but the behaviour being shown recently kind of makes me think that Kip is a late blooming male.
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DNA test, huh?