Well, I just changed all the bedding out on my worms for the first time and got to see just how many I have now... I started with 5 beetles fairly early in the summer, now I have about half a cup of worms, and there are still several tiny ones that went through the strainer, so I will wait a bit and try to fish them out. I haven't had any pupa yet, so I only have the eggs from that batch of 5 beetles that created all of those worms... and who knows how old the beetles were when I started... They also never got veggies, I would put a small amount of water directly into the bedding every so often and never had mold problems. I would also get paper wet and put balls of wet paper in there for them to suck water out of every now and then. Very easy way to produce a lot of bugs!