How are feeder insects raised at your zoo?

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Jurek7

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Just a question - many zoos raise their own mealworms, crickets and others for insect-eating reptiles and other. How exactly? How much space it takes, where etc?
 
Taronga raises mealworms, crickets, woodies, yabbies, maggots and others in the heated half of a building known officially as the "Food Production Unit" but informally called "the bug house". The other, air-conditioned, half of the building is for raising rats and mice as food for animals. I am not sure of the exact condition of their housing or similar (due to my current volunteer position I have not yet been in there - although that will likely change in a few months time!)
 
According to a keeper that I met one or two years ago, there isn't any feeder insect raising unit in Beauval, even with the huge amount of insectivorous animals that live there, from the reptiles to the marmosets and many bird species.
Conversely Beauval produces in its own properties a lot of vegetals to feed its animals, even a part of its bamboo and eucalyptus for the Pandas and Koalas. It produces also (on nearby fields that belong to the zoo) a lot of hay and grass for its hoofstock and elephants.
 
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