It's the dead of winter in Ohio and decided to start a jar with some mud and water from a local stream. After 2 weeks a damselfly nymph revealed himself to me. On one hand he's really cool but on the other I haven't noticed any other life in the jar besides some wolffia and I know they are predatory insects.
Should I try to feed him? Or should I let the jar do it's thing? I feel so bad for him probably starving in there. ðŸ˜
by backyardbabirusa
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If the jar is 100% materials/plants/biota from that location, you could potentially just release it. They’re active under the ice year-round. Not entirely sure how to safely acclimate it to that big of a temperature difference, though.
If he’s getting this big and survived this long he has been finding food 🙂 if you really start to wait and still can’t find anything else and you feel the best thing to do is feed or possibly rerelease depending on your area you can
Life, uh… life finds a way.
Mine loved eating copepods
It’ll need more large macro life long-term to survive. I’d release it…