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Hornworm (Agrius cingulata) to tiger salamanders

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reid

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Can I feed these to my tigers? They feed on sweet potato leaves, I find them on okinowin sweet potato.
 
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joan

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I believe they're toxic due to chemicals in potato plants. Ed K would know more.
 
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reid

Guest
I know potato leaves are toxic but what about sweet potato leaves?
 
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edward

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They should be fine as sweet potato leaf are supposed to be non-toxic. However this relates only to the ones on sweet potatos, horn worms found on tomato and tobacco plants are toxic (a different species of spinx moth).

Ed
 
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kyle

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Not to cause too much of a ruckus.... but I think its worth noting that when I used to keep a veiled chameleon a couple years back, I would feed him Tomato horn worms whenever I found them in the summer in the garden with no problems. They were probably his favorite snack.

It may have been a fluke, but on what basis do we constitute these caterpillar larva as toxic, is it anecdotal, or is there solid research?
 
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reid

Guest
Tomato and tobacco leaves are toxic.

(Message edited by reid_h on September 22, 2006)
 
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roy

Guest
It's very dangerous to say that it's not toxic for a newt if it's not toxic for a Chameleon. Different animals react totally different to certain toxins.
A lot of (for us)toxic berries are eaten by birds but on the other hand cabbage is toxic to a lot of animals.
 
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reid

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Kyle was talking about the tomato and tobacco hornworm, which he fed to his chameleon, I was talking about the sweet potato hornworm.
 
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