General Care Discussion :: Are insects ok to feed RES ????

[TXGUY]

Is safe to feed our turtle with death insects like spiders or fly ?
this is what has been happening at home, somebody find a ineath insect and they pick it up and give it to my turtle, some times (I Know) those insect has been die because the insecticide we sparay to kill them .,
So how safe is to keep doing this???????????
hope to hear from you guys[/b]

[marisa]

Welcome to the forum. If the insects are dead from being sprayed with pesticides, it is NOT safe to feed them to your turtle (please use a little common sense here). Most likely the poison in the pesticide will collect in the turtle's system and eventually poison him or at the very least cause neurological damage. DON'T feed them to your turtle! Throw them out.

If you want to feed your turtle insects occasionally, go buy some crickets from a petshop and/or get some earthworms that you know haven't been near any pesticides.

How big is your turtle? What else do you feed him besides insects? What kind of set-up do you have for him?

[DavidY]

Umm, insects killed with insecticide are dead because they have absorbed the insecticide. They are now poisonous because they are full of the insecticide. So...if insecticide is poison, and the dead insect is dead because it absorbed the poison, common sense would tell us that if you feed them to your turtle, then your turtle will die from the poison.

[cheech&chong]

i don't mean to be rude, but the insecticide thing was just plain dumb.

[TXGUY]

Thanks for your comments, I got the feeling that it was not the right thing to do, this is why i posted this topic, just to be sure of what to do, I really appreciated your help, my turtle is a 2yo male, and basiclly i feed it with living fishes and earthworms, turtle food from the petstore some veggies some times lettuce, broccoli etc,and i think he is doing just great, and of course i don't want it sick THANKS ALL