[Rain_Frog]

I would like to know more about the setup for waxworms. In the past, I either did too well with waxworms or I'd never get new caterpillars. I have used the oats and honey method and it's been hit or miss. Do you have to mist the container? What sort of ventilation do you use? Does it matter what kind of honey you use? I have noticed that when I did have waxworms, I got the waxworms that were not refrigerated, but still had issues with adult moths but no new caterpillars grow and develop.

 

[Rain_Frog]

I wonder if some commercially available wax worms are being subjected to some kind of treatment that prevents them from completing their life cycle by reproducing.
I know that other larvae are sometimes irradiated with x rays to prevent them from completing metamorphosis.
In the UK you can buy 6000 hatchling waxworms for around 25 dollars so it's been a long time since I've bred them myself. I can remember having better results at higher temperatures and in slightly drier and better ventilated cultures though.

I've thought about that. However, I've never tried misting like KMC does, and I've noticed sometimes the media gets very hard and dry and I've wondered if maybe I shouldn't use metal screen lids, but had an issue with waxworms chewing through plastic (they can digest it, new research shows!).