Mealworm Life Cycle

[Vitarajay]

My beetles are still alove so im guessing i have lots of babies i cant see. the only cleaning out i do is removing the dead aliens, i know these are dead because they are half eaten.LOL. no throwing them into the mealie graveyard unless they have bits missing for me. LOL.
Once i have mastered mealworms i need to master crickets..then im sorted

[Juzza12]

I didn't think i had any babies but then i saw one, started seeing loads. I cant be bothered with breeding crickets but i've got morio worms on the go

[zippy4emma]

Originally Posted by Juzza12

It was a month after i had a few beetles that i noticed baby mealies

that sound about right for me but how long do they take to grow to adult size?
i think i might end up with 50'000 mealworms coz i got over 100 beetles and the aliens just keep coming!
i cant see the baby mealies very well but the substrate comes alive in my hand. i think if you find one you must have about 200.

[zippy4emma]

i think you got to have some sort of rotation to keep a constant supply of food.
i got beetles in a 40ltr tub, aliens in another 40ltr tub, and mealies in a smaller plastic tank,
i duno why im trying to breed large scale because i only got 10 leos im just gona see what happens

[Juzza12]

I was told they take a long time to get to feeder size. It's a long process but well worth it. As soon as i saw babies in one tub i moved the beetles to another one

[zippy4emma]

Originally Posted by Juzza12

I was told they take a long time to get to feeder size. It's a long process but well worth it. As soon as i saw babies in one tub i moved the beetles to another one

yea thats sort of what im doing, i got babies in all the tubs and im just rotating the beetles

[zippy4emma]

its taken me so far about 3 months from buying small mealies to beetles to babies

[Juzza12]

I thought meal worm aliens were a bit freaky, then this morning i got my first morio alien, it's huge

[plugger]

I started about 2 months ago just picking aliens out of the tubs I bought from the shop, put them in a 12"x12" tub with cornflakes/weetabix and left them to it got about 50 beetles now and found my first baby this morning. Trying the same with Morio,s now only got 6 beetles so far.

[Juzza12]

Godammit, i only have 6 morio aliens. I dread to think how long morio babies take to get to feeder size