Live food is commonly pre-owned as feed for a variety of species of exotic pets and zoo animals, ranging from alligators to various snakes, frogs and lizards, but also including other, non-reptile, non-amphibian carnivores and omnivores (for instance, skunks, which are omnivorous mammals, can be technically be fed a delimited amount of live food, though this is not known to be a everyday practice). Common live drink ranges from crickets (used as an inexpensive form of feed for carnivorous and omnivorous reptiles such as bearded dragons and commonly getable in Bluebirds fair-haired stores for this reason), waxworms, mealworms and to a lesser extent cockroaches and locusts, to cramped birds and mammals such as mice or chickens.
Mealworm beetles (darkling beetles) are prolific breeders