Good morning, everyone!
About 2 months ago I bought 50 eggs from Greatlakeshornworms (awesome stuff!), had over 50 caterpillars (all but one hatched!) but since I only have one bearded dragon he wasn't able to eat them all (I did the mistake of waiting until they were fully grown to feed them off).
Ended up with over 20 pupa and decided that I might as well breed them.
Long story short, today I had my first harvest of eggs and it turned out to be 290! And this is only from the first night of eggs.... (and not all moths hatched yet!!)
Does anyone have suggestions what I can do with the extra hornworms I will have?
Hubby will offer a friend with 2 beardies some for cheap but that won't be enough.
We assume that Petsmart won't be interested in buying our extras either... Our only idea is to offer it to a seemingly privately owned petstore eventually, but what else can we do?
I've also considered Craigslist but I'm not sure how well that could work.
I'm grateful for any ideas!
Maybe it'd be possible to preserve the hornworms for later use? (Freeze or 'boil&can'?)
I'm at a loss
Wish you all a great day!
About 2 months ago I bought 50 eggs from Greatlakeshornworms (awesome stuff!), had over 50 caterpillars (all but one hatched!) but since I only have one bearded dragon he wasn't able to eat them all (I did the mistake of waiting until they were fully grown to feed them off).
Ended up with over 20 pupa and decided that I might as well breed them.
Long story short, today I had my first harvest of eggs and it turned out to be 290! And this is only from the first night of eggs.... (and not all moths hatched yet!!)
Does anyone have suggestions what I can do with the extra hornworms I will have?
Hubby will offer a friend with 2 beardies some for cheap but that won't be enough.
We assume that Petsmart won't be interested in buying our extras either... Our only idea is to offer it to a seemingly privately owned petstore eventually, but what else can we do?
I've also considered Craigslist but I'm not sure how well that could work.
I'm grateful for any ideas!
Maybe it'd be possible to preserve the hornworms for later use? (Freeze or 'boil&can'?)
I'm at a loss
Wish you all a great day!