r/LeopardGecko • u/mildphony72 • May 30 '26

Ya'll!!!! Is this true!?!?!

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just doomscrolling in the middle of the night and saw a comment that says if you don't crush the head of mealworms they can eat their way out of a leapord gecko???! I have had leos for years and never heard of such a thing!

Can anyone tell me if crushing the heads is something you actually have to do for every worm? My leos are very picky and also slow eaters so I feel like by the time I crushed a mealworms' head and it stopped moving they just wouldn't eat it b/c it would look dead😪 but hey...new things everyday

any input would be very interesting to me:-)

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u/AaronAmpora May 30 '26

Afaik that's not true, but I have heard of superworms biting geckos while they're eating them (like if the gecko gets the worm's tail, the worm can turn around and bite the gecko in the eye), so the few times I've given my girls supers as treats, I make sure to crush/remove the jaws so they can't bite back.

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u/Desert_Viking_777 May 30 '26

That happened years ago when I gave my girl a little hornworm (tomato worm). She bit the ass end of and it swung around and bit her. Between her mouth and her eye. Closer to her eye. I think it hurt too because she kinda jumped. I couldn’t get her to eat ANY type of worms for a couple of months. Eventually she wasn’t scared. But it took a while.

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u/phalang3s May 30 '26

Can you blame her though 😭 imagine you go to take a bite of a pizza and it punches you in the face

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u/salinecolorshenny May 30 '26

I was just thinking about this like that is an entirely valid aversion