My grubs are dying, why?

You need to nurture them. A lot. It takes me about 6 nurture interactions and then finally when you hover over them they say "growing". Once they are growing, you should be able to collect from them in 24 hours. (Keep feeding them of course!)
After you've harvested them, they will decline again and you'll need to do at least 6 more nurture interactions, sometimes as many as 8 to get them back to good health and growing so that you can collect again.

Feels really broken and having an insect box shouldn't take my sim's entire day just to keep alive. In real life an insect would hate it if you gave it that much attention. Anyways, I've kinda given up on them since they're so much work for almost no pay off. :/ I'm hoping they tone this down a bit later in a patch because in this state, it's almost unusable and certainly not very feasible to have more than one insect box either.

"Camkat;c-17537800" wrote:
You need to nurture them. A lot. It takes me about 6 nurture interactions and then finally when you hover over them they say "growing". Once they are growing, you should be able to collect from them in 24 hours. (Keep feeding them of course!)
After you've harvested them, they will decline again and you'll need to do at least 6 more nurture interactions, sometimes as many as 8 to get them back to good health and growing so that you can collect again.

Feels really broken and having an insect box shouldn't take my sim's entire day just to keep alive. In real life an insect would hate it if you gave it that much attention. Anyways, I've kinda given up on them since they're so much work for almost no pay off. :/ I'm hoping they tone this down a bit later in a patch because in this state, it's almost unusable and certainly not very feasible to have more than one insect box either.

Ah, what a disappointment. Thanks for clearing that up though :-) For now I've gotten rid of them as well, just not worth the hassle if they're always dead unless you do nothing but fret over some bugs.

Because hugging grubs is gross, I reckon. ?

Wonder if they absolutely horrify a squeamish sim. :naughty:

"Camkat;c-17537800" wrote:
You need to nurture them. A lot. It takes me about 6 nurture interactions and then finally when you hover over them they say "growing". Once they are growing, you should be able to collect from them in 24 hours. (Keep feeding them of course!)
After you've harvested them, they will decline again and you'll need to do at least 6 more nurture interactions, sometimes as many as 8 to get them back to good health and growing so that you can collect again.

Feels really broken and having an insect box shouldn't take my sim's entire day just to keep alive. In real life an insect would hate it if you gave it that much attention. Anyways, I've kinda given up on them since they're so much work for almost no pay off. :/ I'm hoping they tone this down a bit later in a patch because in this state, it's almost unusable and certainly not very feasible to have more than one insect box either.

If you use mods, LittleMsSam has a fix (in her Random Small Mods) which greatly improves the nurture interaction and makes it much more powerful. Then the bug boxes seem to work as they ought to do without so much ridiculous effort, and collecting is also possible.