My friend stepped on one of my waxworms so I am not his friend anymore.

Thanks for this :) I’m 13 and have had / currently have many amphibians and a bearded dragon who eat insects and my toad only eats worms lol he’s fat. Your Dubia roach video helped me a lot as well, and I’m glad to know I’m not the only one who isn’t scared of insects. I’m subscribing :)

This video was so informative whilst not being dragged out or boring, thankyou!

Thank you! I been getting mine at a bass shop and this seems much easier. I also like the idea of my own little colony. I have a jumping spider, and two salamanders. Id like to get a couple crested geckos, and breed. First id wait though, just to get the care aspect down, have it all set up real nice and proper. I feel you owe it to your animals to give them the best life.

Wow i love the mossy tunnel you went under, your town seems so cozy.

I cant find my comment.. I did this and said it never took off but wow I was wrong. I thought the eggs just weren't gonna hatch but then I really started looking and after a month i noticed super tiny little baby worms. On the top of the grain oat mix is a graveyard of old moth corpses and I'm hoping they recycle mom and dad. Lol

Miss watching your new content. Hope your doing well. Still passing your site to new reptile people. You have saved me time and money with your site. Thank you. Watching this one again for a refresher.

This is the first video I’ve seen of yours and it’s so dope with editing and info had to thumbs up and follow!

Dude, I’ve been binge watching your videos since I got my banded & leopard geckos and absolutely love them all. Thanks for the great info! 👍 👍

Been following your steps I started on July 15th threw in about 150 wax worms inside a small size tote. Now five days later my wax worms are starting to pupate. Temps in my room around 75 to 77 and I haven't really messed with them....just check up on them each night to see the progress. Thanks to your videos and tips I'll be having some eggs soon.

That was more helpful than looking on the Web. I'm going to breed them for my ghost mantis

I recommend putting a layer of breathable cloth on the lid. the baby's escape don't ask me how i know.

Thank you so much this video helped me out tremendously because I just discovered the cocooned wax worms I was keeping in an empty wax worm container had become moths, so I was scrambling to figure out what to do with them but now I don’t need to worry about it

Interesting, seems I’ve been breeding by mistake 😂 I bought wax worms for my praying mantis to pupate into moths for him to eat (too big for fruit flies). Bought the tub with most pupated already to speed it up, still had some worms tho so did the setup above. They all hatched a while ago and have been flying around and I assume laying eggs in the substrate... I hadn’t even considered you know 😂😂😂

Free bait here I come

I feed em to the kids whenever they curse. Healthy and effective

awww I love waxworms their so squishy and soft and cute and I can never feed them to our geckos

Did anyone else get some Gordon Ramsey vibes? 😂

man very easy and to the point ...your videos are very much appreciated

Yea thx for the video I go to the pets store 3x a week and it adds up so I decided to breed my own worms,superworms,crickets now wax works ND I always watch burn tutorials so thx

I was wondering how to do this for fishing. Very helpful.

What great editing you have, really enjoyed your video. Cheers from the states.

Great video, a little creepy but very interesting! Just wanted to let you know that Waxworms are a favorite of Bluebirds! Thanks for the info! Denise

Love this Channel found it tonight while researching for breeding advice! Me and my girlfriend are starting a breeding-business soon as we have a few reptiles and such, these videos are great and very informative, subscribed :)

This is great information thank you so much for sharing this video my friend ☺☺☺☺☺

Thank you, nice and simple, well we`ll see, just going to start on this now, thank you

Like a little action movie :) Liked it. Great info, nicely presented

Fantastic Editing and a Well put Together Video! Keep it up Mate!😁

Great video, thanks for sharing.

Recently come across your channel. Learning some new stuff! Thanks ❤️

I subbed in the first minute I know I'm gonna like your channel

Very nice! Thanks for a perfect simple video. Subscribed! 😁👍

Curious if it matters whether I use quick oats or old fashioned oats? Thank you for your time. I’ve learned a lot from your videos regarding leopard gecko care.

I bought some waxworms for my bird feeders and thought well I could try to breed my own. On reading the leaflet which came with the waxworms I discovered that they were especially bred for food and they would never pupate but just die after a certain time. Anyway I've googled over and over for waxworms for the purpose of starting a colony. I get loads of hits but none of them specifically say they will turn into moths given the right conditions except those in the USA and I'm in UK. I don't want to buy more and find that again they are of a type that will not turn into moths. Can anyone recommend somewhere to get waxworms suitable for eventual breeding please., would be grateful. Great vid btw, very informative, very useful thanks.

I like ur videos sir. Thanks for all the good tips

Great video Thank you so much !

Guys please help! This has worked amazingly, thank you so much for posting it! However how on earth do you keep the tiny hatchling in a tub 😂 they are smaller than even fine insect mesh! Help!!

This will be a great project for fishing bait. I also have an aquarium with native fish that this will be great for. How quickly do the waxworms multiply? And do you poke any holes in the lid?

Awesome! Very helpful and easy to follow. Do you just remove the dead moths periodically when you notice they’re dead? Thanks!

Yup def subbing. Awesome video mate

Yummy waxworm flapjacks😋

Very useful info buddy. and just subscribed. Top Bloke!

I love breeding little insects I hope I can do this too thank you for the tutorial, seems really easy but I have a doubt mine are fully covered by cocoons I'm a bit confused since I have read is not how they pupate

Thank you Richard.

Great vids mate enjoy watching keep it up +1 sub

Awesome thank you! I already had everything 😂 I feed them to my jumping spiders

Thank.s for the vid i been wanting to raise some for fishing i subbed also..cheer.s ron

Awesome will definitely give this a try. Couple of questions How long does the colony last? Like can you just keep adding oats and honey when it starts to run low to keep it going or does it get dirty and you have to start a new colony? Also do you know roughly how many eggs each female lays? Thanks another great video

Loved the video! I'm gonna try this for my leos.

I followed your instruction, now I have 4 wax moths, now it's game on if at least one is female, knowing my luck, they're all male

Steelhead love these.

Appreciate your info! Thanks a ton!

We are going to do this. our local pet store keeps running out. Do I need to worry about the moths getting out when I open the lid? I don't want moths in my house... Great video. Thanks for the info.

In fact, they dont need so much honey if you can give them a more various diet, they can eat syrup and bees' wax to match the diet they are used to eat in wild. the soil bean powder gives them protain.

Curious if the small worms find their way out of the holes?

Cheers mate really useful! good vibes from essex

Hello me again, if im not useing honey, do wax worms need water?

What do you feed them to make sure they live during each stage ? Do you ever need to clean tub out also?

Brilliant video, thanks x

Thanks for sharing this video. How big must the holes be for aeration? Also when do I need to dispose of the oats to add a fresh supply of oats?

Guys! This also is how you make giant cereal/grain bars!

I’d put the container open in zip up Landry hamper so the moths have some space

Hello just wondering is it ok for the Amphibians to eat the worms even after they had honey?

They have a distinctive citrus smell, not unpleasant.

i love it’s

Do you have related videos on cleaning/resetting set ups like this?

Thank you for this informative video. Question... if I’m breeding the worms in a container like this, can I dip into the container daily to gather worms for feeding or will it disturb those pupating? Or... do I need to keep some for feeding in a separate container and just leave these alone?

This would be great because my local petsmart & Petco never have anything in stock and in the winter it’s a pretty far drive for a small cup of worms

Hi I normally buy the fly maggots they are small. Wex are bigger then the fly maggots. Thanks.

This guy kinda sounds like jack sparrow from pirates of the Caribbean

May need to try this, my mantis go mad for wax moths. I will watch when i get chance to sit and take notes, may have heat issues tho 👍

What if they get coated in honey before feeding to reptiles

I like it great video gonna subscribe I wish I had all that but unfortunately I dont sad day

Thanks!!

I need help! I did the oatmeal and honey in a tote. I have had a bunch of moths grow out of it...but what do I do with the moths? Leave them in there? Set em free? Feed to my chameleon? And what should I be looking for to know I have a colony going?

Down south they sell wax worms in cooling units so they don’t pupate early.

I want to feed them to my chickens

Fisherman here. Yeah all bass and the dumber trout love em.

Can u make a video about separating the worms from the months or vise versa please

Does the honey and oats ever mold or like go bad and do you have to clean out the whole thing becsuse of that?

Hi, I’ve recently come across your video, I have a quick question and was wondering if you could help me. When waxworms go into pupation stage, do I leave them in the same tub I have them in or do I move them into another pot with some substrates/oats/honey on the bottom. Hope you are able to help me. Thankyou x

Everything that can match pollen canbe their food, such as oats, flour or soil bean powder.

What do you do when the soil is molding completely?

I now have too many wax worms and hoe do I pick them out effectively it socks having to dig them out through all the webs

I’m breeding waxworms for my hedgehog named Dogy thanks so much!

How do you know that they are laying eggs/breeding and how long does their life cycle last? And would you have to add more honey and if so how often?

So about how long should I expect to let this all happen. After dumping them into the habitat?

When they’re a pupa how long does it take for them to become a moth?

If you use disposable gloves to mix it works great!

thanks alot

yea but how do you get the wax worms out to feed to your reptile if you have moths in there? wont they fly out when you open the lid?

Does the moths ever fly away around the house?

Speaking as a beekeeper, I have to say there are a lot of incorrect statements in this video. First, there are two species of waxmoth (www.nationalbeeunit.com/gallery/index.cfm?galleryid=26 - the greater waxmoth (Galleria mellonella) and the lesser waxmoth (Achroia grisella). Neither of them eats honey. They are attracted to used brood combs to lay their eggs in a place where their developing larvae will be able to burrow through brood combs, feeding on the discarded larval stages of honeybees and also on pollen (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waxworm ). This makes them a pest to honeybee colonies so, if you could find an alternate food source, you would be helping honeybees which are in decline for a number of reasons. Another problem with the video is that you squirted honey into oats. This cheap supermarket honey (I believe that one was Rowse) is a blend - euphemistically called a "product of EU and non-EU countries" - which basically means it is "dumped" from China where veterinary medicines control doesn't exist. A few years ago, it was banned throughout the EU because it was found to contain chloramphenicol - the eye drop which is actually an antibiotic. Do you really want to feed antibiotic to your animals? Another problem is that honey can contain spores that are harmless to humans but cause diseases in honeybees. If the medium is disposed of improperly, honeybees will be attracted to the "free food" and carry disease (European, or American, Foulbrood EFB/AFB) back to their colonies. These are notifiable diseases under The Bee Diseases and Pests Control (England) Order 2006 (www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/342/made ) and may lead to affected colonies/equipment being burned. Please get your facts straight and consider the impact of your behaviour on others. Thank you.

Would adding a critter quencher help

In my experience (course im a zone 9) a much larger enclosure with lots of ventillation heat and glycerin are necessary. Iv tried smaller containers like yours. Didnt work out well. Tried with out glycerin. Also failed.

How do the moths get out? I have frogs that love moths

Hopefully my tarantula likes waxworms! Thanks for the tips

What would be a good setup to only raise one generation bought from larvae give half to my grey tree frog. Then pupate...wait for eggs then feed the adults to the frog

Can you use any type of oak

Hi I have tried this and im at the point where I can just about c them buts it's not in the tub they have keep escaping I have tried chease close and even vasalean on the rim to stop them but dosnt seen to stop them have u any tips as I have loads but keep getting out into the house I live in the UK Shropshire please help