I'm having trouble finding anything that specifically states what a sugar glider eats in the wild. Everything i read says that they eat flying a tree dwelling bugs.....okay so what. I really want the gliders to be able to hunt moths. . . or something. If you guys know of anything please give recommendation.

I don't know specifics on insects and moths gliders can eat out of the norm that is usually talked about on here. However when you do find what is safe for your suggies you do have to be carefull of where and how you get them due to possible exposure to pesticides and such.

Yes good point, I want to find a good source. I know of a insect breeder already that specials in the pet business....so i would look for someone like that

We live in FL and the mosquitoes have started getting in the house. Quincy starting stalking "phantoms" and going crazy over "nothing" until I saw him catching a mosquito. Really funny to be honest. I think that in the wild, they eat just about any insect that comes out at night... so, june bugs/beetles, moths, mosquitoes, crickets, earwigs, cockroaches... I don't know what else comes out at night where they're from- but that is what they would be going for in the wild. I don't think a type matters much. Like missviciousx said, though, pesticides put a damper on us being helpful by catching these things for them.

So, if the insect breeder you know can gut-load your selected insects for you before you purchase them, you are SO LUCKY because many suggies only have the choices of meal/superworms and crickets/grasshoppers. I hope I was somewhat helpful... :o)

oops I meant to concur with our2girlz (sorry for my mistype)

i lost my seller of crickets.she was feeding them the way they should be fed for gliders,& now she's not.i looked up the ppl @ Ghana's, but they feed more to reptiles & such,so,it is pretty much the corn stuff,so we are worried,of course,b/c of the mold issue.rite now they are only getting 'vita-mealies',from a couple that feeds the mealies really good stuff.crickets are healthier than mealies,but mealies are safer than crickets.
the gliders do not live very long in the wild,& i feel that is b/c of alot of the stuff they do eat.since we control all of it, they are living longer. jmo

Thank you sugar mama. That is pretty much what i am starting to think. But my girls are so fast i wanted to get something that they had to hunt and catch like your mosquitoes, which by the way sounds so cool lol.

josefine, i agree they live long because of their monitored diet, and they can't just eat any bug like they would in the wild. but if you have a mealworm breeder that gut loads specifically for gliders, you should totally hook me up. haha that sounds great.

So i am thinking about grasshopper breeders or some sort of moth...

I found this document that lists certain types of flying insects that feed off of certain plants mainly in Queensland, Australia.

On page five it lists these butterflies and moths that feed of eucalyptus.

Very few butterflies but hundreds of moths,
*Melumimas australasiae, *Emperor Gum
Moth, *Ghost Moths (Aenetus spp.),
*Euproctis spp., Giant Cossid Moths,
Miskins Blue, Cyane Jewel, Miskins Jewel

These feed of Acacias or (wattles)

*Several Jewel Butterflies, *Tailed Emperor,
Damel's Blue, hundreds of moth species
including *Ghost Moths (Aenetus spp.),
Eyespot Moths (Donuca spp.), *Large Leaf
Moth (Chelepteryx chalepteryx) and *Anthela
spp. and Cossid Moths (Xyleutes spp.)

So i guess these are the types of insects that sugar gliders would normal hunt.

We get crane flies in the house and when I can catch them I'll give to the glider farm. I trust mine enough to allow them to chase after the thing out of my cupped hand or I'll stuff it into a populated pouch.

I wish my gliders would help out more! I have a problem with those horrible pantry/ grain moths. COME ON!! I watch them fly through the gliders' cages, thinking "Come on guys! A little help here!"

I've bought various insects on line - to experiment with and such. They do love the roaches - but I just couldn't deal with them anymore. Sad. Nothing I've ever seen beats watching my babies demolish a massive hissing roach!

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Originally posted by josefine


the gliders do not live very long in the wild,& i feel that is b/c of alot of the stuff they do eat.since we control all of it, they are living longer. jmo

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If that were true, I would have lost some of my own gliders by now as they live outside and they munch through so many wild insects and chomp down on the same flora as their wild relatives.

Don't forget gliders in the wild are subject to a lot of things including natural predators, cat/dog attacks, loss of habitat, etc and I think that lack of food would be more of an issue than what they actually eat.

Well we all know they love to hunt! Try this guy www.wormman.com/ he has EVERY insect you can think of! It says they arrive at your door gut-loaded. I'm going to e-mail him because I'd like to try different insects, too.