We cannot ship to Hawaii because of their stringent laws prohibiting non-native insects and soil to be shipped to the island, and rightfully so.
If you live on the island of Hawaii, and you want to compost, there is a program available about healing the Earth through composting. It looks like a great program.
We have official taste testers on the farm. Our Koi spend the days testing our fly larvae, mealworms, wax worms and assorted goodies. They are big enough to ride but I am trying to find a saddle that can fit right.
We have implemented a question and answer board to share our frequently asked questions with the best answers. We will post questions from our visitor but you can ask questions as well. Then we can all take a shot at answering those questions and let our visitors pick the answers they find most informative.
I hope that you like this new addition. Please comment below if you have any suggestions.
The Q&A page can be found here.
This might seem crazy but, clocking in at 99.2 Decibels, the Water Boatman insect has a penis noise that is louder than a freight train when adjusted for size.
Today is 12-14-2019, and it is 4 AM. The early bird may get the first worm, but the early worm farmer gets the worms fat so that the early bird gets fed. That was wordy.
Anyway, it is going to be warmer today, and we had a soaking rain last night, so we are opening our beds to check the worms and give them a good feeding, if needed, so that they can eat and then go back to bed when the cold hits again shortly.
These intermittent, cold weather feedings, allow us to check on our worms to ensure that pests have not invaded and that our worm herd is alive and well. The blanket of food will also heat a bit as it breaks down and that will help keep the worms warm enough to keep feeding and fattening so that the spring warmth will give them ample food supplies to grow and breed.
We feed them a mix of green and brown organic matter, so straw and alfalfa mixed with rabbit manure and frass from our mealworm and superworm operations. The worms love it and it heats well. 
We feed by placing a strip of food down the center of our beds but we are sure to leave the sides food free so that the worms can escape the food if is should sour or heat too much on warmer days.
We also provide our indoor breeder and hatching beds with a good sprinkling of Purina Worm Chow. We do this weekly to keep our indoor breeders and hatchlings happy and healthy.
It is now 4:06 AM and I have to get to work. Have a great weekend.
Ken
My name is Ken Chiarella. I started Wormman.com in 1997. Prior to that we were R&K Trading Company. By 2000 we were doing about $150,000 in sales. Most were online sales for red worms, but we also sold 1000 count worms in the back of many magazines. This article in Boy’s live increased our business 5-fold. It is just a small article about how to build a worm bed but we had people calling us from all over the world. Those were the good ole days when the internet with young and I was too. 🙂
Enjoy the worm composting article here.
I plant enough to feed my family fresh vegetables and to also offer our insects organic vegetables. Our roaches, isopods and worms love fresh veggies.
I put an addition on my beehive today. The bees were installed in mid May and it is now 6-12-19. The bees needed an addition to be able to build more brood and to put away more supplies for winter.
I added another brood chamber and I turned the entrance reducer to make the hole bigger for the bees for summer.
They are being fed sugar water and brood cake and they look very healthy.
We have expanded our selection of isopods, adding Asian and Spanish Isopods to our farm. We have also added many new rare, large and feeder roaches to our breeder groups. Millipedes have also joined our farm and are happily breeding as I write this. Pillipedes are my favorite.
In all, we have 68 types of roaches, 54 types of Isopods and 8 types of Millipedes.
To accomplish this, we had to add a small building for our live roaches. It is still being organized but it is heated with 3 types of heat, electric, propane and oil, so that we have backup systems in the event of a storm or power failure.
We also hooked up a warning system that calls, emails and texts me when the temp and humidity levels fall below the perfect habitable zone for live roaches. If you want to know more about that, just comment below or send me a message.
Here is a shot of the roach building. The plants in the middle are Peace Lilies, which are great for removing ammonia from the air. We will be getting more of these for this building and some of our other buildings.
I will list our list of species below. I will do that because we are always looking for more. If you have something, not on the list, please contact us with what you have with a price. You can do that by clicking on the contact form on the left menu of this site.
The red highlighted names indicate that we are looking for more, even though we have active breeding colonies. Most of these are not yet for sale but they will be coming online over the next few months so stop back in or join our mailing list to get informed as new species are added.
If you do not see it listed, that means that we do not have it and that we may want to buy what you have. Send us what you have here.
Thank you!!
Ken
ROACHES
| Roach Name | Scientific Name |
| Orange head roaches | Eulaberus posticus |
| Surinam roaches | Pycnoscelus surinamensis |
| Horse shoe crab roaches | Hemiblabera tenebricosa |
| Lobster roach | Nauphoeta cinerea |
| Hissing roaches | Gromphadorhina portentosa |
| Giant cave roach | Blaberus giganteus |
| Six spotted roach | Eublaberus distanti |
| Goblin roach | Paratemnopteryx couloniana (red goblin roach) |
| Turkistan roach | Blatta lateralis |
| Deaths head roach | Blaberus craniifer |
| Ivory head roach | Eublaberus ivory |
| Pantanal roach | Eublaberus serranus |
| Oriental roach | Blatta orientalis |
| Banana roach | Panchlora nivea |
| Giant Green Banana Roach | |
| Discoid roach | Blaberus discoidalis |
| Pallid roach | Phoetalia pallida |
| Red head roach | Oxyhaloa deusta |
| Australian roach | Periplaneta australasiae |
| Shadow roach | Pycnoscelus surinamensis |
| Porcelain Roach | Gyna lurida |
| Giant Peppered Roach | Archimandrita tesselata |
| Harlequin Roach | Neostylopyga Rhombifolia |
| Dusky Cave Roach | Blaberus fusca |
| Hissing Roach Flat | Aeluropoda insignis |
| Halloween Hissing Roach | Elliptorhina javanica |
| Zebra Roaches | Eurycotis Decipiens |
| African Bullet Roaches | Blattidae sp. |
| Dubia Roaches Orange Spotted Roaches | Blaptica Dubia |
| Rothi Giant Roach | Byrsotria rothi |
| Wide Horned Hisser | Gromphadorhina oblongata |
| Parcoblatta caudelli (Caudell’s wood roach) | |
| Parcoblatta cf. americana (American wood roach) | |
| chnoptera deropeltiformis “Ruby Red” (Dark woods roach) | |
| Ischnoptera deropeltiformis | Dark Woods Normal |
| Parcoblatta divisa (Southern wood roach) | |
| Anallacta methanoides (Mauritian zebra-faced roach) | |
| Gyna caffrorum (Chrome roach/Ghost porcelain roach) | |
| Tiger Hissing Roach | Gromphadorhina grandidieri |
| Firefly mimic | |
| Pale-bordered Field Cockroach | Pseudomops septentrionalis |
| Milk Roach Diploptera punctata | Pacific Beetle Mimic |
| Taiwanese leaf mimic roach | Rhabdoblatta formosana |
| Centurian Roach | Gyna centurio |
| Hooded Roach | compsodes schwarzi |
| Lobe | loboptera decipiens |
| Ember Roach | Pycnoscelus striatus |
| Question marks | Therea olegrandjeani |
| Gisborne roach | Drymaplaneta |
| Lobopterella dimidiatipes | |
| Red and Black Roach | Opisthoplatia orientalis |
| Florida Skunk Roach | Eurycotis floridiana |
| No name | Eurycotis Improcera |
| SAUSSURE’S GIANT SAND ROACH | Polyphaga saussurei |
| The Hustler Roach | Eurycotis Lixa |
| Warty Glowspot | Lucihormetica verrucosa |
| Chinese Medicinal Roaches | Eupolyphagea sinesis |
| Domino Roaches | Therea petivereana |
| Ornate Velvet Roach | Deropeltis paulinoi |
| Zebra Wood Roach | Parcoblatta zebra=20 for 30$ |
| Deropeltis | |
| Extinct in the Wild Roach | Simandoa conserfariam |
| Big black beetle mimic roaches | Ergaula pilosa |
| Wingless Female Roach | pycnoscelus femapterus |
| Arizona Wood Roach | parcoblatta notha |
| Desert Wood Roach | parcoblatta desertae |
| Orin’s Zebra Roach | Dorylea orini |
| Little Penguins | |
ISOPODS
| Common Name | Scientific Name |
| Scaber Gray | |
| Rollie Pollie | Armadillidium Vulgare |
| Clown Montenegro | |
| Nosy Peach | Nastium |
| Orange Vigor | Armadillidium Vulgare |
| “High Yellow” | Porcellio Ornatus |
| “Dark South” | Porcellio Ornatus |
| High Yellow Chocolate | Porcellio Ornatus |
| Porcellio Hoffmanseggi | |
| Porcellio Magnificus | |
| Smooth Isopod | Porcellio Laevis |
| Zebra Rollie Pollie | Armadillidium Macalatum |
| Giant Canyon Isopod | |
| Dwarf White | |
| Purple Isopods | |
| Dwarf Gray Stripped | |
| Rathkii | |
| Skirted Isopod | Onicus Assellius |
| PIBALD | Onicus Assellius |
| Convexus | |
| Flowery Blue Isopods | Floria |
| Powdery Orange | PP |
| Powdery Blue | pp |
| N. Cristas | |
| Dwarf | Ventillio Parvus |
| Agabiformius lentus | |
| Granulatum | |
| A. Sordidium “Punta Cana” | |
| Sevilla | |
| Ligia Pallasii | |
| Fast Isopods | ATLANTOSCIA FLORIDANA |
| Sp. Carpet | |
| High Yellow | Porcellio Haasi |
| A. dentiger: | |
| Hylo/Trichoniscus sp. | |
| Picopod | Isopoda sp. “Picopod” |
| Florida | Isopoda sp. “Florida” |
| White Out | rathkii “White Out”: |
| Pumpkin Pod | T. rathkii “Pumpkin Pod” |
| V. arizonicus: | |
| Nosy Normal | Nastium |
| Versicolor | Armadillidium |
| Thai | Isopoda sp. “Thai” |
| Corycream | Armadillidum corycraem |
| Rubber Duckies | Cubaris SP |
| Little Sea Isopod | Cubaris Murina |
| PORCELLIO SILVESTRII | |
| Armadillidium Gestroi | |
| Borneo | Cubaris SP. |
| Red Fringe | Cubaris SP |
| Blonde Ducky | Cubaris SP |
| p. Virgatus | |
Millipedes
| Bumblebee | |
| American Giant Millipede | Narceus americanus |
| Spotted Yellow Flat Back | |
| Scarlet Millipedes | |
| Flat Black | |
| Desert Millipedes | Orthoporus ornatus |
| Pillipedes | glomeris pulchra |
| Ivory millipede | Chicobolus spinigerus |
