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For those who have small species that enjoy flying prey or those of you who feed silkworms and the like to your spiders,I have found an easy way to breed lots of waxworm larvae and moths.
I start with a large mason jar,in the bottom I mix multigrain baby cereal with honey,bee pollen,spirulina,and sometimes a bit of alfalfa powder into a crumbly,flackey mix that sticks well together.I use about 2'' total substarte and the babyceral should compose about 6/8 of the totla amount of solids.I typically grind or blenderize my bee pollen into dust to me sure it is evenly distributed and available to be eaten by the waxworms.I order my waxworms from www.wormman.com and place about 50 in each jar with a crumple bit of wax paper or papertowel.I cover the jar with old T-shirt or painters cloth,b/c the larvae can climb glass and with wriggle through cheesecloth or chew throught papertowels...it also maintains the media's moisture level.I sit my jars out of sunlight in a room that stays areoung 75F and let the worms eat and pupate.You can feed off about 2/3 of the worms and still wind up with more than enought to pupate and become moths.I remove dead worms as best as I can fromt he cultures and just let the culture sit.About 3 weeks after you see your first moths inside the jar,you will get a rush of worm of small size.These will turn into moths in a few weeks.I usually end up seperating the new worms out to nes jars of media,b/c they quickly consume the old media.I have been breeding the worms for my lizards and it is very easy and economical....everyhting being easily bought at a super Walmart.Happy worming!!!
I start with a large mason jar,in the bottom I mix multigrain baby cereal with honey,bee pollen,spirulina,and sometimes a bit of alfalfa powder into a crumbly,flackey mix that sticks well together.I use about 2'' total substarte and the babyceral should compose about 6/8 of the totla amount of solids.I typically grind or blenderize my bee pollen into dust to me sure it is evenly distributed and available to be eaten by the waxworms.I order my waxworms from www.wormman.com and place about 50 in each jar with a crumple bit of wax paper or papertowel.I cover the jar with old T-shirt or painters cloth,b/c the larvae can climb glass and with wriggle through cheesecloth or chew throught papertowels...it also maintains the media's moisture level.I sit my jars out of sunlight in a room that stays areoung 75F and let the worms eat and pupate.You can feed off about 2/3 of the worms and still wind up with more than enought to pupate and become moths.I remove dead worms as best as I can fromt he cultures and just let the culture sit.About 3 weeks after you see your first moths inside the jar,you will get a rush of worm of small size.These will turn into moths in a few weeks.I usually end up seperating the new worms out to nes jars of media,b/c they quickly consume the old media.I have been breeding the worms for my lizards and it is very easy and economical....everyhting being easily bought at a super Walmart.Happy worming!!!