horn worm question......

[jeritta]

I was reading somewhere a few minutes ago about someone feeding their beardie hornworms they get off of tomato plants.
Please someone correct me if I am wrong but isn't that bad for dragons? I thought I read somewhere that tomato plants were
toxic for dragons and if wild hornworms are feeding on them then they should be toxic too correct? I know I have seen a link
on here somewhere. Can someone help with this one please. I am curious as come next spring when we have our garden we have
tons of horn worms and I do not want to give them ot Gobi or Ash if they are bad. :?: :?:

 

[DoubleJ]

I think this is the thread you may have been thinking of: viewtopic.php?f=76&t=118713&p=938337&hilit=tomato+plants#p938337

I would worry about feeding a beardie grubs from the wild as even if you can guarantee you havent put pesticides etc on the soil you dont know what else it or the grubs contain. (better safe than sorry).

Also this link http://www.beautifuldragons.503xtreme.com/Nutrition.html suggests only feeding raw tomato rarely and the tomato plant itself is not on the list of safe plants.

I know you meant the hornworms and not the plant, but what they eat is what our lil critters eat.

 

[jeritta]

i knew i wasn't loosing what little mind i have left. I knew i had seen it somewhere. The Poster has posted in blogs
recently about feeding hornworms to their beardie that they were getting from a family members garden. I posted
a comment to them and told them I thought it was not safe. Then came here because I knew i had seen it somewhere
thanks for the research. I hope they come here and see it.

 

[DoubleJ]

Glad to have helped out