Spread a layer of the food mix on the bottom of the waxworm’s enclosure and close the light (leaving enough space for air to get in).

Some people will also add dry active yeast at this stage. The consistency you’re looking for should be dry and crumble fairly easily. To mix this, take your honey, wheat bran, and wheat germ(or oats) and add them to a bowl with a 1:1:1 ratio. You may add additional nutrient(s) you want the worms to ingest so your lizard/pet/amphibian etc can ingest them as well. Since these are most likely just feeder worms for your animals or bait for fishing, Simply a mix of bran, honey, and oats is more than enough to keep them satisfied. This helps prevent bacteria from taking hold. So if you must, give them very small pieces of fruit or veggies, preferably treated in a solution of vinegar first. Not so much because they can’t eat them, But because all these wet foods will cause massive issues in their enclosure, leading directly to mold and death. You can occasionally offer chopped vegetables like carrots, broccoli, cauliflower, or spinach as well.īIG FAT WARNING! you really shouldn’t give waxworms fruit or vegetables. Waxworms will not feed readily from fruit in nature, so make sure each piece is cut carefully before placing it into your breeding container for larvae production purposes. They also enjoy fruits such as apples or bananas that have been sliced thinly (about the thickness of a quarter) with no peel left on them.

Pick out raisins if you are going to use storebought bran cereal like raisin bran. The main diet in captivity is honey, bran, and oatmeal (wheat germ). Mostly though, the two can eat the same diet. This article will treat them as the same dietary-wise, However, they do have other differences. There are 2 types of wax moths, greater, and lesser. It belongs to the Pyralidae family of moths. Or more appropriately, what do wax worms turn into? A wax worm is the larval stage of the wax moth. The Mealworm Diet – What Do Mealworms Eat? What is a waxworm?

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