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I bought 40$ worth and my beardie just doesnt seem interested. she'll eat meal worms right by one but not these green caterpiller-like worms. Any way to spark an interest, 40$ is alot of money to waste for a 16 year olf with no job at the moment.

I'd suggest to try to sell them to a pet/reptile shop. You'd probably have to take a financial loss on it compared to your purchase price. Contact your place of purchase & tell them your situation. If it's a good company, they'll either refund you the money or do a substitutional feeder insect.

I've never used them as a feeder insect before, so I'm not sure what would consider eating them. They are normally toxic, when feeding on their natural food supplies: tomatoes, tobacco & other solanaceous plants. I believe that companies who rear them, feed them a diet based on bellpeppers that have been dried, ground & processed with other benign products.

You'd probably be better off feeding: silkworms, crickets, tropical roaches, king meal worms & mealworms.

thanks the pet store wouldnt take them so they all died. Silkworms it is. I just wnated to try something new... lol

The cultivated ones are fed on a safe chow and are great for chams and mountain horned dragons. I am not sure what else would feed on them but I know that Mountain Horns love them!

Don't see why beardies wouldn't but then I have never kept beardies!
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