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Ok... Every time I try to raise waxworms they die. I used a recipe off of the net containing bran, gylcerin, honey, and wax paper. Then I even added bee pollen.
Is vegetable glycerine the same thing as meant in the recipes? Or am I useing the wrong thing?
Are there any tricks any of you can share with me?
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~Lindsay

Are you trying to keep the waxworms or breed the waxworms? If you're trying to breed them, all you do is put a bunch of them (depending on how many you want) in a small critter keeper or container with a very fine mesh top and put as a substrate some dry oatmeal mixed with honey (I mix it before I put it in the cage) until it's pretty thick (not too much honey). Then put a few crublmed up balls of wax paper (I used a waxy wrapping paper the first time and it didn't work). Then just wait until they all pupate (some will die in the meantime) and keep cleaning out the dead bodies (there will be some). It's quite a long process after the moths die waiting for the babies, but eventually (don't remember how long) there will be tiny tiny little worms crawling up your walls (glass) and usually getting out. Hence the fine mesh. It's easier to just buy them and keep them in the fridge. I just leave them there until 6 or 8 hours before I want them I pull them out and let them come back to life. If it's a short term housing (the 6 to 8 hour thing), I just pull them out and stick them in a little vermiculite or sawdust and they'll be fine (short term).
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Tyler Stewart
Las Vegas NV
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ok i just raised mine and i now have so many i dont know what to do with them. what i did was mix oatmeal honey and water so you get a paste then i put it on a cookie sheet on some nonstick paper and let it dry for about a day in the sun then i crumple it up as small as i could and put it in a big mayonase jar i put in the waxworms and after a few weeks there were cacoons and then i but them in a 2 liter coke bottle with some waxpaper andanother week or two passed and i had about 6 mothes from about 17 cocoons. but the six mothes gave me tons of eggs and now i have tons. they need a heat lamp also but i just put it on a couple hours out of the day and make sure the mix is dry or it will mold and if it is put a screen over it so there is air circulation.
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Matt G
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