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I don't beleive the hairs are irritating. These are common on beetle larvae and I could be wrong but I've never heard of them bieng that way like tarantulas or caterpillars are.

Theyre not hard to breed at all, but youll likely not do so good the first time. The bigger the cage you have the higher success rate youll have. The best way to grow silkworms quickly is high temps and leaves but 80 degrees will get them growing quicker even on chow. If you get eggs with ice...

The infertile eggs stay dark green or shrivel, usually both. You will never be able to tell accurately without comparing so after they hatch take a good look at the bad ones and you'll learn how to tell soon enough. The only real thing you'd have to worry about is when all are infertile as...

If you wanna breed feeders silkworms are easier because you don't need to maintain them. If you get a tree or can get leaves they'd be free. Using chow is expensive for bigger silks but you can get hundreds if not thousands to mealworm size using prepared food for fairly cheap. When I bred...

Don't forget that they lay eggs no matter wgat, so if they have bred females still lay just as many eggs as they would if they do breed, granted they're healthy and live long enough, I made this mistake with manduca rustica, sold hundreds of infertile eggs thinking that they had to have mated in...

Pictures! I'm gonna have about 20 eclosing in 3 weeks I'll take pics every day but I'm not technologically inclined so if someone's interested I'll e-mail pics/vids once a day if you want to post em. I'm also doing silkworms if anyone wants to do the same for those. I'm likely gonna try a few...

I had one like this too but there were strings attached and looked like pearls. Only one too. Very bizarre that only one out of a group had it.

Sorry I forgot to mention about the air layering. Google g it will give you all yo u need to know in under 3 mins.

All the symptoms seem to match the problem you've had and have likely now solved. If I were you, I'd look into cropping it to encourage more branches, and then air layer a few to keep elsewhere so you can ensure you have a backup or two. There's a method of cropping where you simply pinch one of...

It sounds like you haven't had him for too long. It can take quite a while for any reptile to trust you. Try and start by using a handheld feeding cup especially one he's used to, or on a stick or branch similar to the one you have in your cage. You could also hold off on feeding him a while...

These days, compact fluorescents come in both daylight spectrums that are suitable for plant growth. The ones that are in the 3000 degree/Kelvin range are used for flowering and "height growth" growth and give off the reddish tone, and the 6500 Kelvin are for vegetative and leaf growth, and give...

I forgot to add that you can attract them with beer in a saucer if nobody else has mentioned it.

I had no clue anyone used these until recently, but I would use wild ones because slugs and snails carry a lot of parasitic worms. If you catch them and keep them for a bit you could collect the eggs and raise them. I'm pretty sure they grow very quickly. I wouldn't use a lot though, when I used...

Hairs suck! I never learned my lesson as a kid I always just had to pick up every cat I seen and nothing more painfully annoying than having hundreds of hairy slivers. They sting, burn, tickle, and the tiniest movement will be felt. Tarantulas have these too, but most spiders would be safe, but...

They have to be refrigerated for about three weeks before they can be hatched, and thats the shortest, Some do a month some do 2 months minimum. If temps are 76 plus and there's 16 plus hours of light and you are feeding leaves you may get non diapause eggs but even then you may not. If the eggs...

It will also likely kill them if they're not eaten right away.

How much chow did it take for how many worms? Sorry if you posted and I missed it.

It's either or. Some people only use chow, some people swear by leaves. The leaves have to be smaller though. It's a safe bet to have both on hand but chow is better because you know for certain they can eat it, which is hard to tell with leaves sometimes.

It could be too dry or too damp, temps etc. How long do you refrigerate them for? Like I said earlier, half my moths laid eggs that were yellow, then they turned white, which usually means they bad/infertile, but after ten or so days, they turned greenish, then dark then gray and hatched without...

I agree, but I meant it the way I said it. There are posts here if you look for them, people say they feed wild hornworms all the time without any adverse effect. I certainly wouldnt though.