Question: Is it safe to use june bug grubs as food for axolotls?

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I will find june bug larvae when I'm digging for earthworms from time to time but it only occured to me now that they might make a good food. Are they safe for Axies? I know people feed them to their tiger salamanders and that they need their heads cut off because they have sharp jaws that could hurt the salamanders.

So, is it a yay or nay for feeding them to axolotls? They'd be collected from pesticide free soil.
 
As long as you decapitate them and they're appropriate size, they're probably fine. Just keep in mind the possibility of disease/parasite transmission that's present in all wild-caught (and even some CB) food.
 
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