Are meal worms safe to feed dragons?
The problem with meal worms is the same with any insect who is hungry & thirsty, They seek food and moisture. Any insect including locusts will nibble on your reptile if hungry or thirsty. Meal worms are well known for killing reptiles because in most cases the worm was hungry & thirsty, had escaped from the bowl and wandered the viv for days. Theses worms can stand almost upright & can climb the smoothest of surfaces with the smallest of blemishes or dirt for grip and escape deep bowls very easy. Another issue is that not many breeders or shops like to use them so when the dragon gets older the instinct of how to eat the worms is lost and your dragon needs to learn from scratch. All newly hatched babies know the worms can pose a threat and will be cautious in how they pick them up and position them so to bite down on the heads and chew them plenty. Inexperienced older dragons can sometimes swallow the worms whole barely chewing them thus putting them at risk of being bitten inside . T
