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LIVE SILKWORM KIT – Raise your own live silkworms silk moth bird
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This listing is for a kit of live silkworms, a container, food, insect mesh, feeding tube, our exclusive mulberry chow, detailed below. Perfect for a simple setup to raise and maintain your silkworm colony. The perfect nutritional livefood or as a project to start a colony to produce your own silk!

This kit includes all of the items listed below, perfect for growing on your silkworms to larger size while making a big saving!
This special bundle offer includes the following:
– 30 Small silkworms
– Hinged and vented silkworm housing container (3L in size)
– 120g fresh cooked mulberry chow
– 20cm x 20cm piece of small size insect mesh
– Sterile wrapped plastic feeding tweezers
– Caresheet and comprehensive silkworm raising guide

Variety is the spice of life!
In the wild, common pets such as reptiles, amphibians, fish, frogs, and snakes munch on worms, spiders, moths, crickets, grubs and more. Some species may pig out. For example, some anoles have been observed to eat upwards of 20-30 unfortunate creatures per day. In the wild, your pet would be getting a huge variety— enough to create a veritable critter buffet. They live like royalty in paradise.

For the happiest and healthiest pets, what you want to do is simulate this natural variety in the diet. Feed your animal as many different healthy things as you can find at the pet store and online. You’ll find a nice variety of feeders on this site and others. And of course, silkworms make a great alternative to the same old crickets—which do provide good nutrition and are high in chitin. Silkworms are hardier, less expensive, and easier to take care of than other feeders on the market.

Great facts about silkworms:

*Great staple food item*
*Super nutritious*
*Easy to digest*
*Easy to handle*
*Very enticing to your herps*
*Soft bodied (no exoskeleton, so easy digestion)*
*High Ca:p ratio*
*No noise or smell*
*Known to end hunger strikes*
Silkworms contain an enzyme called serrapeptase which has many beneficial properties such as being an excellent anti-inflamatory and pain reliever, aids with calcium absorption and also fights arterial plaque!!


Feeding your animals – Why Silkworms?

  1.     First of all, Silkworms are one of the most nutritious, economical and
    convenient feeders on the market. Silkworms are a high source of Calcium, Protein, Iron, Magnesium, Sodium, and Vitamins B1, B2, and B3.
  2.     Silkworms look and taste better to most animals than many other types of feeders.
  3.     Easier: They cannot jump, escape or hide, unlike many other insects. They are slow moving and easier for your animals to catch.
  4.     Soft Bodied: They are easier for your animals to swallow and digest.
  5.     Silkworms cannot bite or harm your animals because they have no sharp jaws or legs.
  6.     Size and Value: Mature silkworms can grow up to 10 times the weight of a cricket. At one popular nationwide pet store, small crickets currently sell for 9 cents each. Check our product page and you’ll see that for the same amount of meat, our silkworms sell for substantially less.
  7.     Variety: Animals need variety in their diet to remain healthy.
  8.     Silkworms often cause a feeding response from picky eaters or animals on a hunger strike.
  9.    Ease of care: Silkworms require no special containers or any water.
  10.    No annoying sounds or odors.
  11.    Mortality Rate: Crickets die off quickly; Silkworms are much more hearty and will live substantially longer.

 

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We send all livefood via Royal Mail 1st class post.

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Your order will be dispatched within 1 working day of receiving payment (Monday-Thursday. However if ordered before 12 noon on these days we will send on the day of order) and you should expect to receive it one or two days after dispatch.

In the very unlikely event that your item is lost or damaged during post, we will always issue either a full refund or replacement.

In some instances silkworms will need 1-2 days before they can be shipped, depending on their shedding cycle. You will be contacted if your order is affected.

We accept payment by any of the following methods:

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Immediate payment required for prompt dispatch.

 

If ever your order arrives and your livefood is not in great condition then we will always issue either a refund or reaplacement order for you as quickly as posisble.

You can contact us any time and we’ll always help resolve any issues with your order!

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All UK orders are dispatched the same day if placed before 12 noon Mon-Thu and arrive within 2 working days of dispatch; this is however subject to Royal Mail and not guaranteed. If there is any reason for a delay such as the breeding cycle meaning that a certain food is shedding or hatching we will contact you straight away to let you know when you can expect your order.

We also offer additional methods of shipping at the checkout such as recorded delivery, guaranteed next day delivery and international delivery. These options will be displayed at the checkout.

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We accept all major credit/debit cards via the secure Stripe payment service and PayPal, both are available at the checkout and you can choose whichever secure payment method you prefer when placing your order.

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Tunde Hunyadi
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Silkworms arrived quickly. All alive and growing fast.

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DAVID
Live Silkworm Starter Kit

I absolutely love this kit with live baby silkworms, they are growing fast and doing well, they absolutely love to eat. And I've enjoyed looking after them, I'm looking forward to them growing into adults and becoming cocoons (I've had to get loads of info from YouTube on how to go about that) it's all new to me and exiting. The only thing is you can get attached to these little guys and not use them for food for your animals which is why I kinda bought them for in the first place, but these guys are safe and sound I like them too much.

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