In captivity, they eat crickets, mealworms, waxworms and silkworm larvae. Crickets, mealworms, waxworms, etc. Northern leopard frogs are fed a diet of crickets, mealworms, waxworms, or silkworms. Chicks like cracked millet, cracked sunflower seeds, dried mealworms, and live crickets. Feeding can include small insects such as crickets, mealworms, and roaches. They readily feed on a diet of commercially available crickets, roaches, mealworms, and occasionally mice. They also eat mealworms, earthworms, beetles, and other bugs. Trout may feed on shrimp, mealworms, bloodworms, insects, small animal parts, and eel. A hamster in captivity can occasionally eat mealworms or earthworms, which have high protein contents. Animal protein should also be offered, in form of mealworms, grasshoppers or other insects. Occasionally, they may visit bird feeders if mealworms or animal-fat suet is offered. In captivity, anteaters are fed mixtures made of milk, eggs, mealworms, and ground beef. Its larvae superficially resemble small wireworms or true mealworms (Tenebrio spp.). Larvae are elongate, cylindrical or somewhat flattened, with hard bodies, somewhat resembling mealworms. The larvae, known as mealworms or false wireworms, are usually fossorial, heavily armored and nocturnal.