Aussie Finch Forum

Anyone keep wax worms / wax moths? I think it may be illegal to do so in WA so of course none of you woudl be doing so there ......

Would like to get my hands on some for my softbills.

Craig

never thought of it and in between the mealies ,maggots and crickets , i got no idea. plus no room got a heap of moths in the bran tho.. do you have a moth trap and a black light....pete

Have the black light, but harder in the cold wet weather to get a good result.

Cheers

Craig

for some stupid reason they banned the sale of waxworms - i'm spewing i didn't realise and start up a colony beforehand. if anyone does have them i'd pay to get some mailed!!

toothlessjaws wrote:for some stupid reason they banned the sale of waxworms - i'm spewing i didn't realise and start up a colony beforehand. if anyone does have them i'd pay to get some mailed!!

He he - stand in line buddy. Only need a few to kick a colony off. Need to find a beekeeper who will flick us some. Apparently they are a common pest for beehives.

Anyone out there got any mates who keep bees who might be able to help?

Have seen a moth trap,It had a round black light with a exhaust fan in the middle,sucking in moths etc into a calico bag for collection.

I don't know much about raising insects as I don't have anything that needs them but I did stumble across a technical paper on feeding insects to increase their nutritional value for birds.
http://www.nagonline.net/Technical%20Pa ... DIFIED.pdf