do supers bite?

[vanruyven]

can anyone confirm or deny this nasty rumour? a friend of mine who is an avid herper swears up and down that supers will chew their way out of my beardy if you don't pop their heads before feeding. personally watching the whole eating process i'm skeptical. that little bug gets mashed pretty good before being swallowed. but to be safe i'd like to sample popular opinion.

thanks folks, john

 

[TheWolfmanTom]

Anything with a mouth can bite.
I dont feed supers to my geckos because they tend to gulp food.
But I have fed supers to my dragons for years, and if a super survives the chewing and then the stomach acids and still has the moxey to chew its way out then im breeding the wrong pet....lol

 

[reptilianboy831]

They bite me when I pick em up sometimes, but the rumor of them being able to eat outta the stomach is false. Its like saying if you eat watermelon seeds, a watermelon plant will grow.

 

[Triage]

You mean if you eat a watermelon seed a watermelon WONT grow in your stomach??? I'm calling my mother RIGHT NOW!

 

[reptilianboy831]

 

[mich]

Super worms = Totally false
Watermelons and cherry pits, look out!

 

[Ihaggerty1313]

I concur w/ everyone else. Bad information, totally false and never documented. I would worry more about impaction which is a very real possibility when feeding incorrect sized mealworms and Supers (not saying that you are). I'm just saying that if you're going to worry about an ailment worry about something that exists. However you'll always seem to find someone who swears this happened to a friend or someone they knew but never to them. Why? Because once SuperWorms go into a dragon there's only one way they're coming out..... A nice, hot, steaming pile of