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You can wash them, even use soap and shake the heck out of them. They are extremely tough larvae. When they first stop eating they will clear their gut of whatever they have been eating for a couple of days in the form of a brown liquid that smells pretty earthy. Just wash them if they smell.

Once Phoenix worms (Black Soldier Flies) get full sized (the fifth instar of the grub phase) they stop eating and want to go dormant to pupate into the adult fly. It takes twelve days in a deli cup with Aspen. You could let them change into the adult fly and let your chameleon eat those instead...

If the container has any condensation or moisture they can climb straight up any smooth surface like a leech. They can’t climb a rough surface that breaks the surface tension with the moisture. They will also wedge themselves into any crack or tight area or try to burrow under, for example a...

Those are Black Soldier Fly maggots. Also sold as high nutrition feeder worms under the trademarked names Phoenix Worms, Calci Worms, Nutri Worms, etc. My first experience with these was also a colony that started on it’s own under a rabbit hutch in the waste and food that fell through the mesh...

That is pretty funny, as I use Photobucket and they are big pictures, I can't figure out how to post multiple pics so they are the thumbnails! Someone even explained to go to the attachment thingy and I still don't get it.

Use a slim paint brush to sweep the frass into one corner and clean it, then shift the egg crates over to the clean side and do the same for the other end of the bin. All in all, their droppings and molts are dry and easily “sweepable” if you don’t use a substrate. You don’t even need to be too...

You do have to keep these roaches really warm, like way warmer than crickets. Mine wouldn’t even produce babies until temps were at least in the nineties. I saw a lot of egg sacks dropped until then (I have Discoids, not Dubia) The heat means you do have to remove vegetable scraps that aren’t...

If you buy adult or near full grown crickets they have already bred. Just set up a separate small tub with a deli cup of peat or non fertilized potting soil and just put a few females in it. In one week the deli cup will have hundreds of eggs and they will hatch in about ten days. Set up a few...

Those curly tails are very neat, I got to see them when I worked on Parrot Cay resort for a few days. They are pretty big, and not exactly Jeweled or the regular brown ones either. There is also a land iguana there that has the same tail that curls up!

I buy these letter sized sterilite boxes at Big Lots, I think they are maybe $5.00 or so, and hot glue some screen over some vent windows I cut in both sides. I used these for egg laying bins and hatching out the pin heads. I put a deli cup in one with about six or seven females with no...

I uploaded some pictures to an album called Black Soldier Flies. Shows my bucket for raising and harvesting them. There could hardly be anything simpler, but there's a lot of grubs coming out of it every day. https://www.chameleonforums.com/members/chameleonoobie-albums-black-solder-flies.html