HornWorms?

[ArachnoCrazy]

Hi everyone i found over 50 hornworms on my tomato plants. I wanted maybe to breed some of them when the turn to moths, but i know tomato plants are posionous. So what should I give them to eat so I am able to feed them to reptiles.

Thanks for any replies

 

[JoshS]

Hornworm food

http://www.mulberryfarms.com/horn.htm This place sells a powdered food that you can make up in minutes.

And a do it yourself formula http://www.entm.purdue.edu/Entomology/outreach/recipe/manduca.diet.htm

 

[ArachnoCrazy]

Thanks for the help

oh and what do i need to give the moths. I now some moths dont eat, but i think all spinx moths drink nector. so what would I give them.

 

[Empi]

I would try giving them suger water like a hummingbird. I could be totaly wrong though.

 

[JoshS]

And also check out exoticnutrition.com 's sugar glider section they offer bee pollen and tropical fruit nectars(Goyas Brand)

 

[fantasticp]

I fed my hawk moths hummingbird food. I never saw them eat it on their own. Then I read somewhere that you have to manually feed the moths by unlooping their curly straw into the liquid, so I started doing that. They will sit there slurping for about 45sec-1 min, then fly away. I think maybe they don't recognize a bowl of liquid as food?

 

[ArachnoCrazy]

Do you think it is possible to pot a bunch of flowers and have them eat from that.

 

[cacoseraph]

I fed my hawk moths hummingbird food. I never saw them eat it on their own. Then I read somewhere that you have to manually feed the moths by unlooping their curly straw into the liquid, so I started doing that. They will sit there slurping for about 45sec-1 min, then fly away. I think maybe they don't recognize a bowl of liquid as food?

it's possible they are like bees and see more into the ultraviolet spectrum. flowers look like bulls' eyes to bees, from my understanding

when i used to paint my nails i could get bees to land on them if i painted a dot of different color on the base color. not all the time, but it was pretty comical how often i could get them crawling around my hands

 

[fantasticp]

Do you think it is possible to pot a bunch of flowers and have them eat from that.

I'm sure they would, but I think the amount of nectar in each flower is very insignificant. There would have to be a butt ton of flowers.

 

[ArachnoCrazy]

Well what if i developed some sort of feeding station that looked like a flower. Have any of you done something like that?