How to care for the worms???

[Mellow]

I just got some silkworms and butterworms so I am just wondering how to gutload them and care for them do
The dig in dry gutload like superworms or stay on a flat surface like crickets and I would like answers for both if they are cared for differently
Thank you please leave me some advice or a link to some website that will tell me

 

[carol5208]

I don't know anything about butters but silks cannot be gutloaded. They only eat mulberry, either chow that you buy from where you get your silks or mulberry leaves if you have access to a tree or bush. You can just keep them in a tupperware container. They don't need any substrate.

 

[Dave]

Silkworms should be fed a diet of mulberry leaves or artificial mulberry chow. You should enjoy them nicely

 

[chameleoman]

kind of a lame one but it was fast and hope it helps my blog

https://www.chameleonforums.com/blogs/chameleoman/530-breeding-silkworms.html

 

[sandrachameleon]

I just got some silkworms and butterworms so I am just wondering how to gutload them and care for them do
The dig in dry gutload like superworms or stay on a flat surface like crickets and I would like answers for both if they are cared for differently
Thank you please leave me some advice or a link to some website that will tell me

Hi
Butterworms will eat lightly steamed (and then cooled) butternut squash, which is an excellent gutload
Silkworms will eat grape vine leaves, dandelion leaves, thin shaved carrot and other things, in addition to their natural diet of mullbery leaves, or mullberry leaf based chows.
Here is a link to a good superworm substrate/gutload:
https://www.chameleonforums.com/blogs/sandrachameleon/443-superworm-substrate-gutload-one.html topped with dandelion leaves, carrot, apple, bits of orange, papaya, etc

More info:
https://www.chameleonforums.com/blo...just-crickets-roaches-gutload-everything.html
https://www.chameleonforums.com/blogs/sandrachameleon/75-feeder-nutrition-gutloading.html
and https://www.chameleonforums.com/blogs/sandrachameleon/74-feeders.html

I don't know anything about butters but silks cannot be gutloaded. They only eat mulberry, either chow that you buy from where you get your silks or mulberry leaves if you have access to a tree or bush. You can just keep them in a tupperware container. They don't need any substrate.

Actually, silkworms DO eat many other things beyond mulberry. even when I was breeding silkworms, I only gave them about 60% mulberry based food, the rest was primarily dandelion leaves - which they enjoy equally.

 

[carol5208]

well that is good to know. I knew they ate other things from what I have read on here(I think it was your post as a matter of fact) but I did not know that would sustain them permanently.

 

[sandrachameleon]

well that is good to know. I knew they ate other things from what I have read on here(I think it was your post as a matter of fact) but I did not know that would sustain them permanently.

to clarify, for LONG term (like growing them from egg to full size) it's beset to include some mulberry based food. Doesnt have to be more than 50% though.