Watching Porcellionides pruinosus eat
2/23/25
This weekend I gave my pods a bell pepper and it was interesting seeing what parts the different species seemed to like the most. Dairy cows, titans, and vulgare seemed to enjoy the fruit more but the pruinosus (and some of the young titans) were mostly focused on the seeds. They eat away parts of the outside to open the seed and eat whatever's inside. Pic below has a little guy with his head stuck all the way in the seed like a bag after he managed to open it. They also get territorial over these. Another one about the same age started nibbling on the same seed as this one and he started smacking him with his antenna and chased him away. They also look kinda jumpy when they do this, like how they are with mate guarding. Some kind of mold/fungus started growing on the main part of the fruit that had stalks with little balls on the end (might try to look up the real name and add later) and one of the adult oranges was grazing on that like a cow. He was walking around the stalks and eating specifically the balls off the tops. He would also tuck his antennae back when he was eating and that was pretty cute. These guys really do act almost exactly like my friend's shrimp. Easily the shrimpiest fully terrestrial guys I know