Live Silkworms

Silkworms are one of the most nutritious feeder insects available and great for a wide range of animals

• Soft bodied and easy to eat
• Great for a wide range of animals
• Easy to keep and store
• Supplied in a recycled plastic tub
• Fast, fully tracked UK delivery

Despite being called worms, silkworms are actually caterpillars that secrete silk from their feet. This acts like glue, which is why they can be hard to pick up, but it means they can stick to all sorts of surfaces in your pets enclosure - so you can spread them around and create a fun game of hide and seek to enrich behaviours at feeding time.

What Can Eat Silkworms

Most exotic pets can eat silkworms. Indeed, they seem to be so loved by animals they have even been known to tempt stubborn and picky eaters out of their hunger strikes! Feed them to bearded dragons, geckos, larger frogs, chameleons and small varanids.

Silkworm Care

Looking after silkworms is easy. You can keep them in the tub they arrive in if you intend to feed them quickly to animals. For longer term storage, transfer to their own container where you can control the humidity more easily as they grow. They prefer to be kept in the cool and dry but need less humidity as they go through their lifecycle. 

Our Silkworms are fed and gut-loaded before they are shipped but if you want to keep the for any period of time we strongly recommend you feed them daily. Since they only eat mulberry leaves it is much easier to give them specialist Silkworm chow to keep them happy and healthy.

Packaging Information

These silkworms are delivered in a ventilated plastic tub that is 100% recycled and recyclable.

See the table below for the approximate number of silkworms per tub.