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  1. saysfaa

    Raising Mealworms - best practices? How to prevent / stop grain moths to keep wife happy?

    Good idea but no, I bought larva with no adults. They are now all adults. Still no eggs or larva unless the adults are eating them as fast as they come. I've tried picking the adults out and putting them in a different container so any eggs could develop. Several times. I still put cut potatoes...
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    Raising Mealworms - best practices? How to prevent / stop grain moths to keep wife happy?

    I bought about 50 meal worms from a pet store in Sept or Oct. They were in a stainless steel mixing bowl with the bran they came with and oatmeal for substrate. They got lots of kinds of produce for moisture: carrots, green peppers, apples, potatoes, broccoli stems, probably others. They have...
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    Raising Mealworms - best practices? How to prevent / stop grain moths to keep wife happy?

    I'm afraid the pantry moths are the tip of the ice berg. We didn't get rid of them until we went scorched earth - every trace of every type of grain product thrown away and the space thoroughly wiped down. Essential new grain products kept in the freezer until a couple of weeks after we stopped...
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    Raising Mealworms - best practices? How to prevent / stop grain moths to keep wife happy?

    Ah, yes, on the pantry moths. We have had them two or three times - all a few decades before I got the mealworms. It makes much more sense that they came in on the wheat bran. I'll probably get to the other parts of your response later this week. Edit add never mind, I can't concentrate on what...
  5. saysfaa

    Raising Mealworms - best practices? How to prevent / stop grain moths to keep wife happy?

    :caf I'd like to know too. My mealworm farm is not going as well expected, either. I have adults only, as best I can tell ... from a container of mealworms from a pet store bought a few months ago. The only one of your questions I can help with is the flying grain moths. The beetles used for...
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