Need help with my Meal Worms, Please.

redhen

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Okay...Soo i'm trying out raising my own meal worms for my birds and the boys fishing. i am STILL confused though. i dont know if i leave the beetles in with the mealworms..will they eat them? also..i seem to have several stages of growth going on in mine. I have mealworms,light brown beetles, black beetles (whats the differance in these?...age?)..i have beetle larve...UGH! do i have to seperate these growth stages? and how in the heck do i do that? right now they are in a small tote..i need to put them in a bigger one...do i just toss them all in the new tote with the dirty stuff/waste also? because isnt that where the eggs will be? heeeeelp!
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heres the pic of my diaster!! what do i do?

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I never could figure it all out, so after waiting for a couple months and still nothing after the black beetle stage, I dumped the whole shebang into the chicken coop.
The chickens had a ball chasing the bugs around.
But Im gonna watch this and maby Ill try again if there is any good advise out there.
 
I have never done this but I read about it recently and the beetles are supposed to stay because they produce more meal worms. I just ordered some but they haven't come yet
 
We just started meal worms, my mom knows more than me, but I think she said you put an apple? in the tote/container you have them in to draw the adult beetles out and separate them from the worms.
 
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well..go ask mom for me!
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well she is at work now, she will be home in about 30 min I will show her this post then
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