WHAT DO BOXELDER BUGS EAT?
Amazingly enough, I get asked this a lot. THEY EAT BOXELDER TREES…. Well, actually, they eat the seed pods mostly, but the pods are only around certain times of the year. The last time I was asked this, it was a nine year old little girl that told me she had a “pet” boxelder bug and she wanted to know what to feed it. In this case, if you don’t have seed pods, they survive quite nicely on just the moisture from a cotton ball, if you dip it in water. In nature, they will also eat strewberries and some other fruits.
