Mealworm Life Cycle

[PeterPossum]

What a greta post!

I bought 500g mealworms 'bout a month ago. Sorry guys, for the birds in the garden at work.

I'd like a gekko or something but I live alone and travel the world quite a lot.

I split the 500g into four lots and put them into old fat ball tubs with about an inch of otmeal and corn flakes.

I feed the birds from the first two tubs and put a small stick of celery in once a week. They love it

Now I opened the two breeding tubs yeaterday and the atmosphere was wet! Soggy corn flakes the lot.

So I left the lids off to let them dry out.

A) where'd the water come from?

B) how wet before they die off?

[animalialover]

defo gonna have a go gr8 care sheet

[fatbloke]

im trying must have over a 100 beatles running about but not yet seen any babys in there

[Theresa]

Do you have to spray them at all with water?

[fatbloke]

Originally Posted by Theresa

Do you have to spray them at all with water?

nope i think it kills them thay get what thay need from the odd bits of fruit and veg u put in there





whoop just had a lil look in all the dust in the bottom and whoop sum tiny tiny tiny millworms did nit think thay would be that small

[OrigamiB]

Finally got some mealworms now xD they are about 1cm in size now and are actually visible xD

Word of warning: new born mealworms are extremly hard to see..... If you think your mealworm farm has failed keep it for a few months anyway as you'd be surprised xD

[PhillyDee]

Woo! Got some Aliens!

Just gotta wait for the face huggers!

[iamcairnsy]

thanks for the info , ive just started to breed mealies. i have a load of them in cacoons and even more adult mealies crwling about. im going up to tesco to but some value oats lol cant go worng at 50p lol

[Dee_Williams]

have got aliens. they are mega freaky. scared the bleep out of me when it wiggled when i moved it. lol.

mealies are pretty amazing little buggy things. my skink and chickens love them!

[Gentoo]

I've empted a load of substate hopefully full of eggs into a tub of it's own. Do they need moisture?