Breeding Hormworms

[Lija]

I would love to since they're expensive and my frogs love them and in another thread i was told that breeding them is easy. so

anyone knows anything about it?

[Pluke]

http://www.frogforum.net/food-feeder...gs-galore.html

That thing gives you the gist of how I did it in really LAYMAN terms, lol. I did it all with junk I had laying around the house, but I did have summer at my advantage. I had the moth cage by a window where they'd always get moonlight and they bred with no problem.. I had no tomato plants either, but I used grapevine and that worked. Fed them with a humming bird feeder.

I actually have about 20 cocoons right now but I just put them outside because I realize I have no way of getting them to lay for me because I have no plants that will tickle their fancy.. and honestly, I don't want to deal with them right now, lol. I'll do it again in spring perhaps, I did make a couple bucks off them.

Edit: typos.. -.-

[Lija]

wow, thank you, I think I'll try, if only find the worm food available to ship here. I always loved to watch life cycles, but this would be not just interesting, but it is going to be food as well.

[Pluke]

Make sure you got a good food source for the babies. They eat a lot and you have to make sure you start them in cups too so it's easy for them to find the food. Otherwise they'll wander off and die, they are TINY and extremely fragile too so it's hard to pick them up and move them, but still possible. I just grab them by their horn since its kind of long when they are that small. The most annoying part is collecting the eggs, they will lay a ton and ALL over the place, haha. Good thing they're super durable.. they're like tiny bouncy balls.

[Lija]

any suggestion on what to feed them other then commercial food? I emailed 2 US companies if they ship to Canada, but based on experience i highly doubt it

need a back up plan, there should be something else they eat. and I'm thinking i'll start tomato plants, so by the time I actually need them they're decent size. what do you think?

[Pluke]

Tomato plants are a big no no, they are toxic. Animals that eat hornworms in the wild get sick and so will yours if they eat hornworms that have ate tomato plants. Everything about a tomato plant is poisonous except the fruit. There are recipes to make the hornworm chow online but I have never done it and it may be challenging, I've heard that they will eat Repashy Bug Burger. I'd check with Great Lake Hornworms and see if they ship Canada. I don't know of any other stuff that the worms will eat.