Hornworms out of food? Try green beans

[Ceycham]

So my hornworms ate all their food and were looking a bit, well, dying. Hated to let them waste like that so I threw in whatever I had on hand to see if they would eat it. Turns out they will eat raw green beans, and are back to looking robust again! I sliced them down the middle long ways and gave them the halves so they had a raw edge to gnaw on. Since Norman is on a hunger strike, and I am on a hornworm feeding strike until he eats his crickets (like being a mom all over again), I'm glad to have found a solution! Hope green beans aren't chameleon toxic!

 

[nightanole]

Fun hornworm fact, horn worms will eat hornworms, so you might want to segregate each one with its own green bean.

 

[CharlieCharmingo]

They also eat carrots, it turns their poop orange.

 

[CharlieCharmingo]

And apples too if I'm not mistaken.

 

[Ceycham]

I have to say, mine did not actually thrive on green beans for long. or carrot. they eventually grew a sickly color and quite weak, and some developed wet stool. I threw them away.

 

[Crashbandit05]

Fun fact: when I bought my first cup of hornworms, I thought the chow was just to get them through shipping. So I put my normal cricket/superworm/bsfl gutload in the container and they ate everything and shit so much the bottom of my cricket keeper was covered.

 

[Graves923]

They poop so much.... Im glad my cham doesnt eat hornworms. They grow too fast, eat too much, and did I mention they poop alot... lol

 

[Franquixote]

Crashbandit- did they survive on the gutload?!

 

[MSMorgan]

When I'm out of hornworm chow, I feed mine sweet red, yellow, or green pepper. While they don't retain the beautiful blue green coloration, Luck eats them all the same.

 

[Crashbandit05]

Crashbandit- did they survive on the gutload?!

Yes they did.