Mealworm Care and Breeding These are the titles for each section in my mealworm care & breeding guide, please use a link below to jump to that particular section or take your time and have a good read through the lot.
Mealworms are dead easy to gut load, keep and breed. They can be kept in a small critter keeper, mixed with some oats or bran. This will be used as a medium but they also eat this, they will need vegetables like bits of potato, carrot and lettuce for a water supply. At some point everyone has to cook there tea so why not use your potato peelings or a few bits of carrot, put it to one side and then chuck it in with your mealies, it couldn't get much easier! Be careful though not to put too many things in as moisture will kill your entire colony of mealworms.
Breeding mealworms is very simple, all you will need is 3 spare container tubs. These can be old sandwich tubs or critter keepers, in one you will keep the mealworms, two will be the larvae (aliens) and in three will be the beetles. These are the 3 stages of a mealworms life. Simply let the mealworms turn into aliens then beetles, but use the 3 tubs to seperate the stages of life. When you have beetles the breeding can begin. For your beetle tub you will want about an inch and a half deep of oats or bran, the beetles will lay there eggs into this medium. With a colony of around 40 beetles they should produce thousands of eggs. After 2 weeks remove the beetles from their container and move them to a new one to begin the process. After a month or so you should start to see small mealworms which will feed on the oats or bran, you can now add in your potato, carrots or lettuce and begin to use them as a feeder.
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