After stocking my 0.2 acre pond with channel catfish, largemouth bass, and bluegills, I began to supplement the natural food source (fathead minnows) with a bagged fish food. This seems to work fine.
However, being a guy, I started catching grasshoppers and a few crickets, Japanese beetles, and caterpillars and throwing them into the pond for the fish. The bass and bluegills were usually pretty happy to attack and eat them. Now I wonder if any of these insects or others I might find in my yard and garden would be harmful to the fish. Some insects have a hard "shell" and others might be toxic. Is there any insect in Indiana I should not use as fish food? Note: I won't use praying mantids, lacewings, and other beneficial insects for fish food.
Thank you for your information.
