I don’t know if these are the same as your mini meal worms? They occur naturally in all my cages with dirt, all my babies go crazy for them, so I started breeding them with my meal worms. In the photo you can see a meal worm pupae for size comparison.

I fund something pretty interesting in my immediate area, theirs a large tobacco farmer that will let me harvest horn worms and allow me all the tomato leafs to feed them.

He has 2 type of horn worms, the larger one in his tobacco fields and smaller in the tomatoes, he also mentioned and other type of bug that may interest me.

Also an other guy actually wants to invest on nets so that I can help him ride of the grass hoppers in his fields, this may very well lead to commercialisation?
In any case it will make my lizards happy.

As for roaches I don’t see much of a future for them with my animals, I will try the orange spots just to see how they do. But will forget lateralis for now.

2 years ago I released 20 small land snails in my garden, mostly because they are pretty, but also to eventually feed a few lizards, these have multiplied so much that we find them all over town. Theirs a zillion in my garden but haven’t tried them with my dragons yet, I was kind of keeping them for pink tong skinks.

All my dragons will eat flowers I offer them, not often but they do eat them once in a while, I offer what’s available from my yard, dandelions, trifle flowers, capucine, rose, tulips.

They eat some fruits but not often, again from my yard, yellow prunes, cherries, strawberries, raspberries, ground cherries, tomato’s witch they lick and sap on.

They absolutely love tree frogs, but I am still debating on witch species I will breed for them, probably whites? As I am not allowed to breed those from my garden, and I don’t want to feed them either.

An other possible food is a large larva, probably from a moth? Apparently loggers find them when cutting trees, a guy I buy wood chips from assures me I can collect 1000 in one afternoon springtime. Will see next spring.

thanks for the help!

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