Locust food

[JackRabbit0612]

What do you feed your locusts? I found they like basil, coriander and they dislike leaves, cabbage, celery,

 

[AHBD]

It sounds like yours are on a healthy diet ! Do you feed them any bran or oatmeal ?
It's illegal to breed + sell locusts in the U.S. so American beardie owners like myself don't have experience with them but crickets would be the closest thing. I kept mine on a small layer of bran or oats and usually gave them carrot, potato, sweet potato. I didn't give them much in the way of greens, their droppings would get mushy.

 

[Sue E.]

I use oats too (Quaker 100% old fashioned oats-not the instant kind, only ingredient is oats, raw) and a slice or 2 of raw apple or carrot, and a very small amount of greens that a beardie can eat (basil and coridander are good choices)

 

[NickAVD]

My locusts love lettuce leaves, bok choy and dandelion leaves. Just be sure that the greens do not contain nitrates, which are a deadly poison for locusts.

 

[Chris.]

Mine like almost everything that's green. Just try not to feed too much letuce or you get very liquid poops.