Butterfly Feeding

[waitwill]

Are silkworm moths safe? We have a bunch of "leftovers" from our silkworm feeders.

 

[bdjacobs95]

yes, siolk moths are safe. The dwarf chameleons love em! I feed them to my chamleons all the time

 

[nick barta]

Silk moths are the only food my chameleon sprints for!!

Nick

 

[waitwill]

I thought that they probably were, but we are still nervous parents. Hah!

 

[Pieces]

so no butter flys ..... all we get in canada are monarch... soo what moths are ok.??? we got alot of bugs up north in the bush..... any suggestions when i get to the cottage this year???

 

[Syn]

so no butter flys ..... all we get in canada are monarch... soo what moths are ok.??? we got alot of bugs up north in the bush..... any suggestions when i get to the cottage this year???

Unless you can slap a 100% pesticide-free label on that sucker, I don't suggest feeding anything caught outside.

 

[chameleon guy]

how do you get horn worms to turn into moths? Do you just let them keep eating?

 

[jojackson]

Dont feed anything brightly colored, this usually signifies toxidity.
Moths may be fine.

 

[Dave Weldon]

Howdy,

At last Tuesday's SBCK meeting, Summoner12 brought in some Mulberry Farms test batches(?) of Painted Lady butterflies, still cocooned. My batch has been hatching this weekend. My Veiled has eaten 3-4 of them and my Panther munched-down a couple too . For them, it's kinda like eating popcorn. If they ever go into full production and are "feeder" priced, I'd buy them as winged treats . I was given a few hornworm moths a while back and it looked like Panther was eating a humming bird. Those moths were really big .

 

[jojackson]

Thats Cool Dave But Im not sure I could Safely identify a butterfly species by looking at it, so im not taking chances. We have one very similar here, cant remember its name though.

 

[Lizardlover]

Yeah mulberry sells them, and carolina.com (i think thats the name) sells cabbage butters which are good also.