Larva in dubia colony

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scorch1

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I went to check on our dubia colony and the water crystals were almost all gone. It had a lot of tiny thin whitish larvae in the dish with the water crystals. I do have small black beetles that have come in our dubias that we have purchased that I believe are cleaner crews but I think their larvae is more hairy looking than what I am seeing in the dish.

Any ideas on what this could be? Do I need to be concerned? Other than an occasional dead adult I think our colony is doing well (just started 1-2 months ago). I think maybe the dead adults were older when I got them??

Thanks,
Jamie
 

SukiLove

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I think I "accidentally" got some cleaner crew in with my order, which were these worm-like things and a few small black beetle-looking things. I took all of them out only because I don't want anything but dubia in my colony, not saying they are good or bad because I'm not really sure. I just don't want them. I make sure to keep the food fresh for them so I don't feel that I necessarily need cleaner crews, I take out whatever scraps they don't eat so there isn't a mold issue.

Hopefully someone with a long-running colony has better insight. :D
 
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