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    Meal Worms / Beetles and Pupae

    I have in excess of 3,000 large Meal Worms + 200+ Beetles (of various ages, most are less than 6 weeks old) and 400+ Pupae (these numbers are just a good guess, I am guesstimating on the low side) I am wanting to find someone that would like to have these. I'm asking a reasonable charge for...
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    Meal Worms / Beetles and Pupae Looking For New Home

    well... limiting/downsizing quantity is not going to matter. I will not be able to care for them. I know they don't require a lot, but I will be unable to provide minimum. Feeding the lot to the chickens would be an awesome solution, if I had or know someone that does have chickens. We are city...
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    Meal Worms / Beetles and Pupae Looking For New Home

    I am finding myself overwhelmed by life things right now. We are so busy, and frankly I am not going to be able to keep up with my Meal Worm Farm... I have about 5,000+ Large Meal Worms + 300+ Beetles + 400+ Pupae (these numbers are just a good guess, I am guesstimating on the low side) I am...
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    Shipping Meal Worms

    I have a lady I want to gift some of my pupa, larvae and beetles to. I have a few questions regarding shipping if anyone can assist me. Thanks in advance. 1. I have a small flat rate shipping box (size like a VCR tape box) I punched about 25 holes in it - [correct?] 2. I will be wrapping...
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    Mealworm farming

    Here is a picture of my first baby meal worms, from my own beetles. I tried to get a better picture, but my iPhone doesn't have a macro setting and I wasn't getting up for my Nikon LOL anyway, here are just two of them, I have TONS I know... I just can't seem them
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    Mealworm farming

    BABIES! I have them, tons of them! Itty Bitty Teenie Weenie things... I would say they are roughly 1/8" long and about the thickness of a mechanical pencil lead --- I now have in excess of 300 Beetles and another 970 pupa and about 6,000 large meal worms, getting ready to add a 2nd colony...
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    Mealworm farming

    Thank you. I don't have them. Just wondering what to watch out for just in case... so I can nip it in the bud before it happens :-)
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    Mealworm farming

    Mite Infestation? How do you know if you have mites? Will I have to abandon all my colony? Larvae, Pupae and Beetles?
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    Upside Down Beetles

    Thanks. I watched them this morning (I was bored) and I saw one on it's back. I refrained from reaching in and rescuing it. Then along came help. One little Beetle, came from halfway across the bin to lend a head butt. He/She, went right up to it, run it's head underneath it and it flipped over...
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    Watering your Beetles

    I've seen web sites where people are using cellulose sponges (kitchen sponges) dampen them and offer this as the water source of the Larvae and the Beetles ??? Has anyone had this experience, and if so how did that work out for you? I know the Larvae and the Beetles eat the carrot right? Would...
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    Mealworm farming

    Here I am again with yet more questions. LOL I have Pupae coming out my ears. Just today the harvest count was 327! 1. Some of my Pupae are not curved and clean shedded like the others is this ok or will that pupae be deformed when and if it morphs? 2. Some of the Pupae (not many) but they look...
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    Comment by 'kendles' in article 'How To Raise Mealworms'

    @Gallo del Cielo - thank you. I'm growing them to feed my wild outside birds in the winter and my chickadee babies in the spring. I figure I'll need about 20-30,000 a year and at the cost to buy them retail that's not going to happen, so if I can spend a little time and provide them a healthy...
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    Comment by 'kendles' in article 'How To Raise Mealworms'

    I "was" using a 3 bin set up - and a small box with carrots for the Pupae Top Drawer / Beetles Middle Drawer / Eggs/Babies Bottom Drawer / Larvae Well, my hot glue and duck tape job apparently was crafted by an amateur. I cut the plastic, added my screen to the opening. Hot glued it making...
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    Mealworm farming

    are my beetles stupid? every one that has morphed within 24 hours is on their back with their little legs going like this %*^! :barnieI remove them from the Pupae box and put them in the Beetle box (that has about 2" of wheat bran substrate), I put them in the feet down, next thing you know it...
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    Upside Down Beetles

    No, the beetles that are on their backs are new - either white or bronze color.
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