How To Breed: Waxworms

[herpmad]

read this yesterday and today its all set up fingers crossed

[mad baboon]

good luck

[lizzard boy13]

i have the big weetabix and i put two of those in,
how much water di i need?

[lizzard boy13]

I went down to my local sweet shop and got a couple of sweet tubs and i'm gonna start a sort of rota so i don't run out...
Do you realy get like 400 - 600?
So when you see babys do you move them or something?

[mad baboon]

Originally Posted by lizzard boy13

I went down to my local sweet shop and got a couple of sweet tubs and i'm gonna start a sort of rota so i don't run out...
Do you realy get like 400 - 600?
So when you see babys do you move them or something?

it all depends on the size of the container and the amount of moths/worms you put in first of all, this method you get lots.

the babies are very hard to see, i was about to throw my 1st mixture away when i started breaking up the bits in the bottem of the jar there were tiny waxworms almost as thin as a hair, hundreds of them.

each moth can lay 20 eggs per day i think and they live for roughly 10days

so say you have 20 moths and 10 are male and 1 are female thats 10mothsx20eggs = 200 eggs per day x 10days thats roughly 2000 eggs between all the moths. obviously not all hatch but you can grasp the scale of them reproducing...

[lizzard boy13]

kk thanks...
how long do the eggs take to hatch after the moths die?

[serpentsupplies]

not long a week or so. especially if kept warm

[lizzard boy13]

thanks

[smithyUK88]

instead of using tights, can you not just put some air holes in the lid? the waxworms i buy from the shops come in a green pot with air holes in and they seem to do fine in them.
Thanks

[smithyUK88]

anyone out there?