Don't neglect your goliath worms...

I let two of my goliath worms pupate, and here's what happened. Also, the moth kept squirting orange liquid from it's rear. Anyone know what that was? It was highly projectile, so I'm wondering if it was some kind of defense mechanism?

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• goliath
• worm
• moth
• tomato
• hornworm
• butterfly
• bug
• insect
• hatch
• cocoon
• reptile
• feeder

[loveless232]

Did the wings ever get bigger, or did they remain too small to fly?

[frankiecasa]

@loveless232 After coming out of the cocoon, I understand that their wings must dry out in order to completely unfold or something like that. However, it was only out of its cocoon for a matter of minutes before I fed it to my tegu, which was the initial purpose of the worms.

[HexaFox]

Hey man how did you get them to hatch from their cacoon? Did you keep them warm? Also how long did it take?

[frankiecasa]

@HexaFox I didn't specifically heat them at all, however the room they were in had many heat sources heating many reptile cages, so the room was definitely not cold. As far as how long it took, I can't really remember, it was a while ago that I did this... Looking back, the best answer I can give you is it took a few weeks. Maybe three weeks? Again, I don't remember.

[Ziegbod]

Actually the secretion was basically its first shit in a while haha. Google it, you'll find out.

[frankiecasa]

Really? Haha I guess it was a lot simpler than I thought.

[wampaAWESOMEsauce]

@loveless232 the blood in its fat little body flows into the wings and they become bigger if this person didnt feed it to its pet it would have been able to fly

[TheFunkymonkey4u]

wats the point of this vid?

[injam101]

thumbs up for shittin o.g

[Reptiledictionary225]

The liquid was it's waste and internal organs basically they have 1 week to live after they hatch or whatever and they can't eat or pee during tht week so they just get rid of it there and then

[Jebnert]

That's pretty rad

[hydro850]

WOW



[beardierox117]

hey, i'm going to be feeding my bearded dragon some Goliath worms soon and was wondering if they could eat these moths too, I wouldn't do it on purpose but just in case, please respond. thanks.

[xFierceDeityLinkx]

0:37... THUD xD

[krirre]

is it drunk or what :D

[elfpballer6]

I think you scared it so much it shit itslef