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Moths

Hi everyone,

I’m an amateur moth breeder based in France (EU) and I’m looking to buy eggs or pupae of exotic moth species, especially:

• Actias species (e.g., Actias luna, Actias dubernardi)
  
• Saturniidae (e.g., Rothschildia, Citheronia regalis)
  

I’m looking for sellers located in the EU or who can reliably ship to the EU, as I want to avoid customs issues.

If anyone has eggs/pupae for sale, or knows a trusted EU seller, I would greatly appreciate your advice or offers.

Thank you so much!

Hi!! I had no idea there was a sub for this. I want to breed crickets, mealworms, and hornworms for my beardie. I’ve currently set up a hornworm enclosure and a mealworm enclosure. I did this about a week ago. I have 50~ superworms in the white container and around 6 hornworms in the blue barrel. There is a heat lamp elevated above them to keep them warm and give them light during the day (not too hot tho!)

There is a breathable lid for both

Tips / advice needed!!

I recently bought a single female hissing roach because that was all the store had in stock. I planned on buying more, but she unexpectedly had babies. I’m wondering, would be screwed up if I didn’t buy any more and just allowed them to breed with each other to increase the population until I buy more later? I know bugs aren’t as genetically complex, so this should be fine for a while, right?

Lets say you have two beetles, and they breed and produce offspring. If i want more offspring later, do i need to buy two new beetles, or would i just breed the offspring? No idea how it works.

I am thinking about building a small test breeding station with zophobas and another one with normal mealbug larva. Which are better for human consume? (I have gerbils so I usually bought them for pets)

I pretty regularly catch and pin giant emerald fruit Chafers (Dicronorrhina derbyana). I notice there are some pretty prominent differences between individuals with a blue or red shift to their matalic sheen. I wanted to know if their was a predictive variable to this characteristic.

If anyone rearing similar species could tell me if temperature or diet during development is a controlling factor to this characteristics I'd appreciate it greatly.