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I was looking at different types of insects to feed some of my lizards and came across the Butterworm. I would like to try to breed them in captivity and didn't find a lot on there care. I was wondering if anyone here has successfully bred them and was wondering if anyone here knows what they eat in captivity, besides leaves from a Trevo bush, or does anyone know where you can get a trevo bush? I've never seen one at my local HomeDepot/Lowes. Maybe there's a special plant shop or something somewhere? Any help would be greatly appreciated, Thanks,
Nathan

that's all they will eat and i don't think you'll find one at a garden store...also, if i remember correctly it takes a very long time for them to go thru their life cycle...your much better off raising silkworms

You know something...I play with strange plants(I grow more types of fruit trees that most people have never heard of)and I'm not exactly sure what a trevo bush is. I can't find in the "common names" index of my plant encyclopedia (of course it doesn't have references for rubber or chicle trees either as well as some other things.) Getting a scientific name and some info on the plant would be the first step. after that your best bet would be to look for nurseries on the net. There's a nursery in west palm beach Fl. whose name and web adress escape me right now that deals with some really oddball stuff. I can tell you that the people who own it are most likely russian as there web-site is both in english and russian and that I found them by searching for the new USDA plant zone guide their name popped up in the search and I clickked on out of curiosity but never book marked it. They would be my first guess for looking for one. personally the other guy is right you are probably better of with silk worms. all I ever remeber about butter-worms is that they will burrow into wood if given the chance. I never had much luck with them myself.