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Mono Diets When feeders naturally only eat one thing such as mulberry leaves, in this case it is easier to supply them with a complete diet as they naturally only eat one thing. Feeding fresh mulberry leaves is superior to the chows. It also makes silkworms extremely economical to use as a...

Milkweed bugs if they are like tomato or tobacco hornworms in that they get their toxins from their diet than they should be safe to use as feeders provided they have been given a nontoxic diet. I would also try and see if they will eat things other than sunflower seeds and how prolific they...

Moths are excellent We would feed off the adult luna moths after a few days at most because they were just about ready to die and had bred. Some hawk and sphynx moths also. However you dont need editied aka cut hawkmoths feed them whole and uncut. Digby Rigby [email protected]...

Hornworms Hornworms are an excellent staple. They are just expensive. You would be better served eliminating the butterworms, crickets and mealworms and replacing them with hornworms, roaches, silkworms, mantids, and snails as well as stick insects. A proper variety of well fed feeders makes...

Crix Sux Just replace the crickets with roaches and silkworms with a side of mantid. Digby Rigby [email protected]

Blaptica dubia 325.00 per 3,000 Byrsotria fumigata Cuban burrowing roach 300+ size lots Panchlora nivea green banana roach 150.00 per 6 dozen Principals and their authorized agents only. MUST INCLUDE NAME...

Stick Insects All foreign phasmids aka stick and leaf instects are unlawful to sell. Native ones are not allowed to be sold across statelines. Of course all laws can have exemptions and waivers if one has the proper permits and such but they can not be sold like roaches or crickets. One must...

Panchlora nivea a bright green, flying and climbing roach that will not infest the house. An excellent food for all chameleons, havent heard of any turning them down yet. Adult males get about 12-15 millimeters (1/2") females 24 millimeters (almost an inch). Nymphs are a dark brown and do not...

Arboreal aka climbing and flying feeders The stick insects and their ova are unlawful to sell in the United States but not in the UK. APHIS is very down on people buying or importing phasmids aka stick insects and their eggs into the USA. The green banana cockroach is a wonderful arboreal...

Feed adult rodents Adult rodents have calcium and arent so fatty. These work wonders for lots of stuff. Insect size rodents. This is a young adult female the ruler is in centimeters. 2.54 centimeters per inch! Digby Rigby [email protected]

We have had requests for smaller food items so will post here. We have a 500 lot of dwarf white woodlice. These stay small and are eagerly eaten by any size appropriate animals. We have a 500 lot that is priced at 185.00 shipped USPS Express. Overcounts included. USA sales only. These are...

First 2 weeks For the first two weeks of their life crickets need higher humidity than afterwards. Low humidity and high heat after the first two weeks. You know you are doing it right when the adults start flying!:eek: Digby Rigby [email protected]

Variety Variety for the sake of variety isnt beneficial. Variety where each item brings something different to the equation is. Cockroaches, mantids, silkworms, hornworms, snails, nightcrawlers, phasmids and grasshoppers, katydids and locusts. Digby Rigby [email protected]

Panchlora nivea Panchlora nivea aka green banana roaches. Males as adults are around a half inch females more massive and just under an inch as adults they climb and fly, although easier to catch than flies. Their green color makes them very appaling to chameleons and mantids that like...

Zebra roaches All the feeder roaches in the industry started out as being kept as pets first. I remember when we first sold dubia they were 3.00 dollars a piece! THe Zebra roach was sold as a pet species. They also climb glass and cost more than typical feeder species. They still go for a...

Gardening center Just go to a gardening center and buy a two pack of oothecae. When they hatch you will have a few hundred babies you can feed. Digby Rigby [email protected]

Ditch the crix and mealworms To Fearaffect ditch the crix and supers and do the roach and silkworms. Snails are also very good and chameleons love them along with the green banana roach for finicky eaters. As far as the dubia if you figure they produce 20 babies a month as adults and 50% of...

breeding your own Breeding your own is superior to buying. When you breed your own you can control quality and you know what they are getting. Also there is a certain sense of satisfaction in knowing you are feeding what you produce. Much like people who grow their own vegetables feel when...

Immaterial To say someone does something does not mean it is right or the most efficient way. Go to the manduca project website. Go to one of the sponsors here and ask him if his hornworm chow is made from the same thing as the silkworms chow. To say one of the big dealers does something in...

Thats just a cheap way out Feed Hornworms chow designed for them. Hornworms and silkworms have nothing in common. Other places do make make silkworm specific and hornworm specific chow. My previous statements are correct in their entirety Digby Rigby [email protected]