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Title: I found a good use for wax moths!
Post by: gardeningfireman on July 26, 2010, 03:05:00 PM
I found some comb in an empty hive that was filled with wax moth larvae (gross!). I have bluebirds nesting in a box in my front yard so I knocked the larvae out of the combs onto the driveway. Within a minute or two, the parent bluebirds were going nuts grabbing them and feeding them to their young. They must have felt like they were in bluebird heaven!
Title: Re: I found a good use for wax moths!
Post by: G3farms on July 26, 2010, 08:06:54 PM
make good fishing bait also
Title: Re: I found a good use for wax moths!
Post by: greenbtree on July 26, 2010, 09:32:45 PM
My son's Leopard Gecko also loves them.  Only can have them once in awhile though - high in fat - the McDonald's of the insect world! :-D

JC
Title: Re: I found a good use for wax moths!
Post by: irerob on July 26, 2010, 10:09:52 PM
  Chickens like them to  :-D.
Title: Re: I found a good use for wax moths!
Post by: Grandpa Jim on July 28, 2010, 02:34:20 AM
My venus fly traps love them (well I didn't see smiles, but they did).  I thought they might chew their way out of the closed traps, but that did not happen.
Jim
Title: Re: I found a good use for wax moths!
Post by: HomeBru on July 28, 2010, 10:36:04 AM
Stuck two infested frames in the freezer the other day, when I pulled them out, the dead worms were all poking out of the wax. We have a tub full of week-old chicks in the garage right next to the freezer, so I knocked the worms into the tub and those chicks went BANANAS! Went out to look for more worms... :-D

J-