07/21/2025
Keeping flesh eating beetles is fun! They’re great to have on hand when I need bones cleaned quickly and efficiently, but they do need to eat even when I don’t have a project. From hamsters to ducklings to marmots to turkeys, dermestid beetles are not picky eaters.
Straight out of the beetle cage they tend to have various shades of color. Usually bones have to be followed up with degreasing and whitening to get them to the typical white color.
Here’s some of the critters they’ve cleaned in the past few months!
