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Where in Southern Ontario are you located? If in Essex County, there are some local stores that sell feeder crickets in 500 to 1000 count boxes. While the prices per box are perhaps a bit more than ordering online, the lack of shipping charges makes them cheaper in the long run. Send me a PM...

Mine loves mango as well, and gets some every week or two. If she is acting fussy about eating her greens, I will rub many of her greens with the juice from a piece of mango in order to try and trick her into eating the healthy stuff. It usually works for a while. The juice from prickly pears...

You might check some of the links in older posts about roaches in Canada: viewtopic.php?f=57&t=100109 viewtopic.php?f=76&t=99248 viewtopic.php?f=76&t=95602 I let my colony shrink down over the winter, and am just getting ready to start getting them going again now that the warm weather is here...

For those that wish to try breeding them, it is easy (as NegativeCreep said). Instructions can be found at http://www.exotic-pets.eu/waxworms.php as well as at a number other sites that can be easily Googled. Be warned... as a fatty treat, one generation of worms will be far more than you will...

Both of the local stores that deal with exotics both sell bulk crickets (500 or 1000 per box). When I looked into ordering online, the shipping costs made it such that I could still buy cheaper locally. I don't know what kind of luck you would have buying in bulk from a big-box pet store, but...

Great idea! Mine has never been one for baby food in any significant amounts, so I had to come up with a different approach. I have always had great difficulty getting mine to eat her veggies. She is now 18 inches long. I have even gone the route of witholding feeder insects until I see...

Even living in Ontario, I pretty much knew by reputation what store this thread would be about as soon as I saw the title. The faunaclassifieds.com thread above is a sad read. that thread started two years ago, there are reports that the store has been reported to the SPCA right from the start...

Although more geared towards agricultural infestations, this still has great general info on grain mites: http://www.ento.psu.edu/Extension/factsheets/flour_mites.htm When I had my infestation in my superworm colony last year, it was the light brown "mite dust" that I found. It was everywhere...

Superworms are my beardie's all time favourite. They are my staple, but she also gets dubia roaches regularly, and the occasional silkworms, hornworms, butterworms, etc. Given a choice-- she'll always go for the supers first. One thing that I really like about superworms is that they seem to...

The other problem I have with hornworms is that they have a relatively short shelf life. Their caterpillar stage only lasts a couple of weeks. I only get a few at a time. As another pro, it can be entertaining to watch a beardie eat them (especially for the first time). The juice can squirt a...

To the best of my knowledge and experience, screening will not necessarily prevent a grain mite infestation. It certainly didn't in my case. Any reading I have done on it (probably not exhaustive by any means) suggested microwaving the substrate (as you mentioned), and keeping the humidity in...

Pretty good. Matches what I do pretty closely. The only thing that I would add is that getting from baby superworms to full grown superworms will take about four or five months. It's easy, but it's not quick!

Urban legend. There are tons of threads on this forum debunking that one. For a couple of them: http://www.beardeddragon.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=701015 http://www.beardeddragon.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=90670&start=0&st=0&sk=t&sd=a

Congrats on trying to see the whole process from egg to moth! My daughter loves bugs too (5 years old). Last summer, we saw a Monarch butterfly laing some eggs in our garden. We carefully picked the milkweed leaf and tended the eggs and babies and got to see them form their chrysalis, and...

Different worms altogether. In general (and almost exclusively on this board), "superworm" refers to the larvae of species Zophobas morio. For beardies, they are considered a good feeder for larger dragons. I breed my own supers, and theya re my dragon's favourite feeder (she'll go for the...

Here are some older threads that might help you track down a Canadian source: http://www.beardeddragon.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=57&t=43742 http://www.beardeddragon.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=57&t=82572 http://www.beardeddragon.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=76&t=99248&p=771634&hilit=canada#p771634...

Or, as happened in my case, someone comes over and while checking out your setup goes "Hey Cool! ROACHES!" within earshot of everyone in the house. Thankfully, it was no secret to anyone.

They will finish pupating fine at room temperature. Although you will get eggs and baby worms at room temperature as well, I seem to get exponentially more baby worms if the beetles are kept at close to 80F (or at least a lot warmer than room temperature).

Glad to hear you have babies! It is one of those things that once you know what to look for, you will find them much more quickly in the future. As for microwaving your substrate... I don't know what size bowl it is that I use, but it is the largest that will fit in my microwave, and holds...

They usually start laying fairly quickly. Unfortunately, the eggs are so tiny that you will rarely see them (I have had them going for over a year and have never actually seen an egg). I usually see the tiny worms crawling on the potato or whatever veggie I put in as a water source. Many see...