>However, I have personally
> lost a pair of leopard frogs to mealworm-inflicted internal injuries---we
> didn't have autopsies done,
I do just want to say first, that I was strictly talking about geckos
here. I can't really comment on the whole frog thing since I don't keep any
and don't follow them enough to now.
Next I want to say that there is no solid proof that it was the worms
that did your frogs in. Surely not enough evidence for me.
> There's one other case I consider credible, from the long-ago on
> rec.pets.herp, where someone with rather high credibility---maybe Mike
> Pingleton?---reported seeing a mealworm *literally* eat its way out of one
> of his garter snakes
Although I do keep snakes, I've not heard about this story before.
I would have to hear it from him personally so that I could hear the
details. Just reading the mention of it, already leaves me with questions.
>I also agree that
> geckos, by and large, are one of the groups for whom the danger is really
> negligible.
As I mentioned above, this is the group of herps I was addressing. I
should have been more specific in that in my post. Sorry for any confusion.
> At the same time, I get a little irritated when people >dismiss
> the whole business as pure, unfounded myth. If it were, I'd still have my
> leopard frogs.
Ah, but how do you know for sure? I mean absolute certainty?. Either way,
sorry to hear you lost them. Take care.
Jonathan
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