Can I make bug food using Dark brown sugar?

BepopCola

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I have some dark brown sugar left over from baking a ketchup cake.

I was wondering if there was any sort of bug food I could create with it. I’m using ‘bug’ here as I’d like to feed either beetles, millipedes, isopods, or snails. Preferably all of the above.

Has anyone used this type of sugar for this purpose before?

More specifically, I’m not sure how to go about trying to make bug food using dark brown sugar.
Is it more of a sugar+water=food?
Or is it a more complicated endeavor, like a homemade brown sugar beetle jelly?
I’d be willing to try this actually, but simpler would be better, I’m short on other ingredients at the moment.

Any help is appreciated. Brainstorming is welcome!
 

Aquarimax

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I have some dark brown sugar left over from baking a ketchup cake.

I was wondering if there was any sort of bug food I could create with it. I’m using ‘bug’ here as I’d like to feed either beetles, millipedes, isopods, or snails. Preferably all of the above.

Has anyone used this type of sugar for this purpose before?

More specifically, I’m not sure how to go about trying to make bug food using dark brown sugar.
Is it more of a sugar+water=food?
Or is it a more complicated endeavor, like a homemade brown sugar beetle jelly?
I’d be willing to try this actually, but simpler would be better, I’m short on other ingredients at the moment.

Any help is appreciated. Brainstorming is welcome!
Dark brown sugar is one of the ingredients in this bug jelly recipe:
 

Introvertebrate

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That jelly might serve as a honey substitute for waxworks as well. I’ve seen people use high fructose corn syrup for waxworms.
 
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