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What bugs can hamsters eat?

Updated: 10/6/2023
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12y ago

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Most people say hamsters cannot eat bugs. But they are wrong! Hamsters are omnivores. They will eat plant and meat material.

Anyways, wild hamsters will eat crickets, small worms, maggots, and other soft invertebrates. However, domestic hamster may dislike bugs. You wouldn't want a half-eaten worm in the cage! It would rot and the smell would spread quickly! Feed domestic hamsters hamster food and the wild ones will eat their worms!

No, hamsters are omnivores. You can fees them hamster food. You could also feed it apples, lettuce, carrots, spinach, bananas, blackberries, cherries, blueberries, cantaloupe, seedless grapes, cranberries, mangoes, melons, peaches, plums, raspberries, raspberries leaves (helpful for diarrhea), strawberries, asparagus, bean sprouts, bok choy, Broccoli, Cabbage (Limited amounts), Carrots, Cauliflower, Celery, Chard, Chestnuts, Chickweed, Chicory, Clover, Corn on the Cob, Cucumbers, Dandelion Leaves, Endive, Green Beans, Kale, Parsnips, Peas, Radicchio, Romaine Lettuce, Spinach, Squash, Sweet Potatoes, Sweet bell Peppers, Swiss Chard, Turnip, Water Chestnuts, Water Cress, and Zucchini. Just try to keep the diet rounded.

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No, hamsters (Cricetinae subfamily) should not eat box elder bugs (Boisea trivittata).

Specifically, orange on an insect advises against eating by the rest of nature. The color indicates either unpleasant taste or outright toxicity. As omnivores, hamsters will be tolerant of food sources from the animal and plant kingdom, but not at the price of distress or fatality.

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No. Bugs don't eat hamsters, they are way too big for them. But a big tarantula could eat a small hamster.

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This is stupid of course not well unless the hamsters a newborn

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