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Remember that these often need long daylight hours to eclose same season. If they don't eclose within 5 weeks, they will need to be refrigerated for at least a few months. Bad eggs are usually darker and shrivel up pretty quickly, but not all the time. If they're bieng fed, then it's pretty...

They are only blue if they eat chow. If you feed them silkworm chow, they turn green and won't turn blue again. I have found that chow fed take longer to grow and are significantly weaker but I also noticed that lizards prefer the green ones. They will turn green from any green food. I have 40...

Another thing I wanted to mention is that sometimes you will get eggs that don't diapause and they take a lot longer to turn dark. I recently had this happen, where one moth laid eggs that didn't turn dark like the others. They went from yellow to white, a sign usually indicating fertility, and...

I'll never understand why peoplease don't use silkworms more often. If you spend a little money on a tree, you get free silkworms forever. They are the easiest feeder to breed bar-none. The smallest egg clutch I've gotten was 200+ and average is 500 with leaves. There's absolutely nothing to it...

This appears to be a catacola of some sort. I'm a member of the moth and moth photographers group on Facebook. If you request to join theyll identify it for you usually under an hour. I would recommend it because it could have toxins in it from hostplant, but then again, most people think...

You can feed peppers or carrots until chow arrives. They'll also eat mulberry leaves if there's nothing else around. Best to let the carrots dry out a little bit as the high water content isn't always good.

How did you get eggs if you don't know how to take care of the moths? I breed a few different species of sphinx moths and the species that's feed on vines/vegetables/shrubs usually have to be fed honeywater (1part honey to 4 or 5 parts water) or sugarwater in order to mate and lay eggs, tobacco...

You are always gonna have silkworm die-off but the number seems high even for a cup. I keep mine in a Rubbermaid container too. I don't use screening at first because they're frass is dry but after they get a little bit bigger I roll up paper towels or use plastic screen 8n so they are off the...

When I used to use aquariums and had issues with temps, ventilation, humidity etc I would use one of those small fans that you could buy to keep laptops from overheating. They're small, safe, cheap and use a tiny amount of power so I had a friend rig them to my humidity gauge or thermoStat...

I used to collect crickets and hatch thier eggs, but I've always been paranoid about feeding wild crickets because I've seen articles saying that even captive crickets can have parasites.

You can double up on food by getting the youngest possible phoenixworms and feeding them the frass. Ive done it, but I wouldn't feed the PW's until they've pupated and flushed thier systems.

Im not a Cham keeper, but I remember seeing that some chameleons fall to the ground to avoid predators, and I seen a video of one bieng spooked, freezing and falling to the ground as if it died of fear, but the guy said it was normal. I know this is different, but those champ feel from further...