RK-let me do some answering and speculation.



1. Yes I have had a horned lizard regurgitate a wax worm, but so have I for crickets and regular mealworms.

2. I feed them small wax worms and give large to my other lizards.

3. I am suspicious of the reguritation of lizards, because there are many reasons for this, including the fact that a horned lizard will over eat, I have seen this many times and this will cause regurgitation.

4. Have all of us coinsidered because Hl's are specialized ant eaters in nature, that this may also bear upon the intestinal fluids and the make-up of hL's and furthur supoports an ant diet?

5. If you look at all my posts, none of the "worms" that I feed my animals are anything like a mainstay feeder such as ants or crickets? I just feed them occassionaly to round out their diet, being opportunistic they do relish a change, but ants is and always have been my mainstay feeder.

6. If you are aquainted with snakes, it is a fact that temps can affect a snake and they will reguritate food as well. So I am suspicious from a lot of different angles as to whether this is the food, or the temps, or the specialty feeding gastrointestinal make-up of horned lizards.

7. I use freshly shed mealworms and baby super worms and they seem to be passed through right, but Mark and other have observed a regular mealworm comes out the other end often undigested, perhaps again this bears on the make-up of Hl's and their specialty for ants.......just musing here, certianly this is not scientific, but we can explore some of this---all of us this summer and perhaps get some answers?
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