#mothraising

[bugswithcasey]

💚🐛Tobacco horned worms 🐛 💚

I’ve had these guys for five days now!! There starting to get big!!

[bugswithcasey]

Hello bug lovers of tumbler! Today I’m going to show you step by step how to set up a enclosure for raising tobacco horned worms! (Also knows as tomato horned worms)

First things first get yourself some kind of container , this can be a tank large Tupperware container, rubber made totes and other things like that.

For me I’m going to be using this 15 ish gallon tank;

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Now I'm going to add a line or damp paper towels

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Add your soil! a lot of the times when people raise horned worms as food they will just stop at the towels, however tobacco horned worms like to burrow in the dirt especially when cocooning!

The dirt can be from outside or purchased, just make sure if you are getting your dirt from outside there are no other bugs in the soil, I also tried to get as many of the roots and such out when getting outside soil.

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sticks!

They love to climb! So I like to add in some sticks so that they can climb to there little hearts content! I also tape this plastic mesh thing to the side of the tank as another thing for them to climb, you can find these in basically any crafting isle.

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Now of cores, food!! Tomato's, potatoes, broccoli, plant stems, lettuce, these guys eat almost any kind of plant!!

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This is mostly optional but I like to put a light above mine, warmth and it makes them easy see!!

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Add your worms!! This is my favorite part!!

Then boom! you have yourself a nice enclosure to raise some Hawk Moths in! Good luck on bug raising you're Horned worms everyone!!

Remember to do you're own research before jumping into moth raising!!!!