Raising Waxworms

[gritsnham]

So I saw the post on golden rods and thought I would share this with everyone. Its really easy to do and takes a very small amount of effort to get the BEST waxworms you will ever use. You can goggle how to do this but here is a simple and easy way...

Go to good old wally world and get some tall tuperware containers. Next get some gerber baby cereal and honey and mix this until it is a crumbly mixture but not really wet(add some water and heat the honey up to help). Put about 2in of this in the bottom of the tuperware along with some balls of paper towel and folded wax paper. Now add waxworms and cover the container with a towel and put it in the warmest place you can. Give it a few weeks and they will turn to moths and lay eggs then you will have tons of babys that grow fast (within a week or two) store them in a cool area with saw dust like baitshops. Cover the container with papertowle and make airholes (you dont want these escaping).

Really easy and after you start it you really dont have to do anything. Plus for under $15 you get a seasons worth of waxies!

[jwmiller33]

how many wax worms do you put into it when you add them? thanks for the steps! i am gonna try this

[gritsnham]

Just throw a couple dozen in the container and you will come out with a few hundred to a thousand sometimes. Just harvest what you want and then I usually just throw the container away

[BartmanMN]

Sounds like a good opportunity for me to use the kids butterfly hatching house.

[kensom]

Any idea if this would work for Euro Larva as well? Those things get spendy when you are stickin 4 or 5 at a time on a jig.

[CrappieAttitude]

Any idea if this would work for Euro Larva as well? Those things get spendy when you are stickin 4 or 5 at a time on a jig.

Euros need to be kept cool. I have had the best luck keeping them in my college dorm fridge. 34 degrees seems to be the ticket. Most household fridges are set too warm and the euros get bad pretty quick. I buy them in bulk and have kept them good for about a month at a time. Sure some get bad, but they last a lot longer than normal at that temp.

PS the fridge setting is about perfect for your beer as well.

Bring on the hard water.

CA

[gritsnham]

Not sure if this same setup would work with euros since they are flies and not moths so the honey and cereal food may not work. I have found old euro containers in my coat the next year and it would be full of dead flies so it must not be to hard to raise them just need to figure out what to feed them

[FishnUMD]

how long will the new waxies last? if they don't last that long, i would just let a few keep the cycle going?