Fish foods, big list
- Thread starter Deadliestviper7
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SAME! I live in pennsylvania and we have a maple tree and have TONS of lantern flies on our tree, I'm not sure how it would be as far as food goes, they have large wings and sharp barbs on their legs, I fed the baby ones to my killifish because they had no wings and their legs didn't have the sharp barbs on them, but the full grown ones I'm unsure of
So I guess you should collect and freeze a bunch, then tear off their legs prior to feeding them to fish?
possibly, I don't have much that'll eat them though because they're a bit big, well my axolotls would eat them but they should eat worms and stuff
I think they'd make a great part of an axolotls diet, legless and stored frozen, or as fish bait, I'm sure if you get enough you can ship them as bait (dead of course) make some money, all while doing your part to save trees and forest, this species has been called " the worse invasive species in a 150 years"
oh yeah for sure, they have costed the wine industry in pennsylvania 18 billion dollars, they're really bad, I'm not sure how they'd do as bait though, I don't know what would eat them, the only concern to me is pesticides potentially. If I quarantine them then I guess they could be fine, but I don't know how I'd sell them, my parents wouldn't like that very much (they think it would be too complicated), my best bet as far as food goes is to have them in a pellet form, but I don't know how I'd turn them into a pellet. With winter around the corner, they're going to die off anyways so I'll have to wait a bit to really do that. And I'd have to freeze dry them which is even more work that my parents don't want me to do. Only thing I think I could do is freeze them, then grind them up (hopefully it won't get too messy) and then put them into a gelatin mix, then put them in the oven to dehydrate IF my parents allow it
I'd skip the oven part and just freeze them into bite size bits .
As far as bait, most fish eat a large portion of insects as their diet, even mostly herbivorous species will eat insects
Species that would likely eat delegged lanternflies: crappie, bluegill and most other sunfish, catfish,sturgeon, trout,salmon, drum,etc.
Just delegg them and freeze them, count them, and bag them in sandwich bags or whatever, do something like 24 per bag.
Then put up posters in your local bait shop/sportsmans store
