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Mulberry Farms also suppies both.

I'm also pretty sure the horn is on the butt... >.>

You could probably make something yourself for much cheaper. *shrug*

When I got into corn snakes, I wanted a charcoal as my first (a morph with no red coloring and very little yellow coloring). I settled for a normal instead (wild type morph). While I absolutely love her, I'm kinda mad I got impatient instead of waiting for what I wanted. I would keep looking...

I'll note that. The chow has been the only option for years. The oldest post I saw concerning the chow and 'what else I can feed' was late 2004. I think it's time for someone to try doing something about it. I read recently here that someone feeds 50% chow, something else, and like 10%...

I'm pretty freaking sure. Heck, if you have that many trees, why not raise silk worms? Tomato plants are the only thing on that list that's toxic. Well, and maybe each other if they were fed tomato plants. XD

So for the past few weeks I've been searching for foods that hornworms are known to eat in captivity when raising them. Here's what I got. silk worm chow This is obvious. There is also hornworm chow, but we're trying to find out what they eat BESIDES this. :P Tomato plants The natural food...

^ Lobsters produce a gas that can cause a badly ventilated home to explode. Did/do you have plenty of ventilation?

1. The cup of 25 or so that Mulberry Farms sells should be good, seeing as dubias aren't very well priced to buy anywhere else I looked. The cup I got had quite a few adults, large nymphs, and only 3 or so were smaller than a nickle. If you want to start the breeding process quickly and need...

Pet stores sell supers in wood chips. To my knowledge, supers smell bad normally. I believe someone has fed crickets lowres(sp?) and eliminated the smell from those, so maybe try that?

^ Have you found any actual posts of people using those things? The potatoes and the bran/yeast(what kinda yeast?)/vitamins(what kinda vitamins?) stuff? Here's an incomplete and untested list I've collected so far: Mulberry leaves (not very practical though) silk worm chow Tomato plants (but...

^ Really? Are you sure you didn't make it too wet?

I'm not sure how easy those would be to get in general. My neighbors have a LOT of weeds, but it's like half dandilions and half bushy weed things... but I could probably get them to pay me to get their weeds. xD The moths live something like 7-10 days, and one female will lay up to 200 eggs...

(Whoops. >.>)

I read that they try to lay them wherever they smell the tomato plant smell (not the fruit). You could try that. You might not get the 100+ eggs from all the females, but it could work.

Just because they aren't sprayed doesn't mean the wind can't carry some from across the state and put it on the trees. ;)

Just realize that you need to make sure the leaves are CLEAN. Very clean; no toxins or insect eggs or dirt because silkies have just about no immune system. And silkworms are going to eat a crapload.

You could try putting it on the side, or letting it lay under the tank (but not stuck to the bottom).

Horn worms can eat what silkworms eat, but I don't think it goes the other way as well. All I KNOW silkies can eat is mulberry leaves and the special chow, which is a real pain in the butt. Hornies seem to be a bit of garbage guts. The tobacco and tomato hornworms are slightly different...

I don't think so, but keep an eye on it.