Silkworm pupa

[Jmas4]

Hi my mom went to an Asian market and found and bought cooked, canned silkworm pupa. She thought this will be great for my beardies until I saw the ingredients
Silkworm pupa, soy sauce(water, soybean, salt, &wheat flour), monosodium glutamate, salt, water. Nutritionally I believe these silk worms will be very healthy even though it was cooked ,but I am most worried about the soysause. If I wash the silkworms under water maybe the soysause will wash off? Soybean has a really bad calcium to phosphorus ratio. If I dust the silkworms with calcium along with a wash maybe it will help?

 

[kingofnobbys]

Hi my mom went to an Asian market and found and bought cooked, canned silkworm pupa. She thought this will be great for my beardies until I saw the ingredients
Silkworm pupa, soy sauce(water, soybean, salt, &wheat flour), monosodium glutamate, salt, water. Nutritionally I believe these silk worms will be very healthy even though it was cooked ,but I am most worried about the soysause. If I wash the silkworms under water maybe the soysause will wash off? Soybean has a really bad calcium to phosphorus ratio. If I dust the silkworms with calcium along with a wash maybe it will help?

Good luck getting the dragon to eat them .... I've tried these on skinks and dragons and none showed any interest in them (the ones I had came in a tin). Even the starving hungry wild skinks took a sniff and crawled away.

The ants liked them though.

The ones your mum bought are for human consumption, and if coated with and infused with Soy Sauce they are NOT suitable for any lizard to eat.

You don't need to dust live silkworms with calcium powder , doing so will suffocate them.