I just watched that video of the white cabbage larva with the smaller larvae exiting its body. Jeez, it's still alive after THAT? Life's rich pageant, I guess.
Hornworms are a delicious treat for any lizard large enough to eat them. Bearded dragons seem to love them. If you catch them and put them into a container with a food/water source anyone with a pet like that will happily pay you for them.
Sure, wax worms and hornworms have a higher fat:protein content than is “healthy” for your captive lizard. A treat is exactly that, you should not feed them only snacks everyday just like your dogs or cats or yourself!
21 Comments
lars@lemmy.sdf.org · 83 pts · 2y
Some context
p5yk0t1km1r4ge@lemmy.world · 39 pts · 2y
Jesus fuck
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de · 32 pts · 2y
Don't worry. "God made them this way".
someguy3@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 2y
Who loves all his creations.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de · 18 pts · 2y
Apparently some more than others, but the caterpillar just needs to have faith in a higher purpose.
mihor@lemmy.ml · 0 pts · 2y
Darwin disagrees.
rambling_lunatic@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 2y
For context for everyone else: https://web.archive.org/web/20200405172817/http://www.asa3.org/ASA/PSCF/2001/PSCF9-01Miles.html
Parasitic wasps that ate caterpillars from the inside out were one of the main reasons for Darwin to become increasingly skeptical of religion.
dwemthy@lemdro.id · 10 pts · 2y
I love the part where there's a virus that some wasps carry and inject with the eggs that suppresses the host's immune response
lars@lemmy.sdf.org · 9 pts · 2y
Jesus always finds a way
pancakes@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 2y
That's the worst thing I've seen all month
PrimeMinisterKeyes@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
I just watched that video of the white cabbage larva with the smaller larvae exiting its body. Jeez, it's still alive after THAT? Life's rich pageant, I guess.
hakunawazo@lemmy.world · 47 pts · 2y
Oh that's dark.
Krackalot@discuss.tchncs.de · 34 pts · 2y
If that's a tomato horn worm, I'm on the wasps side...
supernicepojo@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 2y
Hornworms are a delicious treat for any lizard large enough to eat them. Bearded dragons seem to love them. If you catch them and put them into a container with a food/water source anyone with a pet like that will happily pay you for them.
Nomecks@lemmy.ca · 14 pts · 2y
They also make a good first pet for kids because they're cheap and die fast anyways
clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works · 18 pts · 2y
The worms or the kids?
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y
Yes.
thejoker954@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
But only a treat. Maybe theres been more science done in the past 5 years, but I remember them being basically junk food for lizards.
supernicepojo@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
Sure, wax worms and hornworms have a higher fat:protein content than is “healthy” for your captive lizard. A treat is exactly that, you should not feed them only snacks everyday just like your dogs or cats or yourself!
ultratiem@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 2y
Fuck wasps
malamignasanmig@group.lt · 2 pts · 2y
holy guacamole. The Lottery vibe