yes dehydrators work just fine. I used mine at first during winter. It will heat up a house quicker than an oven. After dehydrating or roasting they will last about a year in a sealed container any other questions please send them my way. I dont like handling superworms much yet either but i will be starting up a big colony of them soon as well. They pinch a bit sometimes.Thank you for your great advice. Michael said he fed some of them to the birds yesterday bc he didn't know I was waiting here for a response as to the safety of feeding the dead colony to them or not. So we will definitely throw them in compost instead and start over. We use a Sterilite drawer so yes they are fully enclosed. And they were doing fine until I threw in too many unwashed carrot scrapings. I did not see any mold but better to be safe than sorry again. So I have learned a valuable lesson-one I will not repeat.Also thank you for telling me how to dry the worms. It kind of grosses me out though at the thought of putting them in my oven. Do you think I could use a dehydrator instead? There are inexpensive models that I could buy to dedicate just for drying the meal worms. You would probably laugh at me if you knew how long it took me to even pick up a meal worm. I still can't handle a super meal worm. We fish a lot, and Michael has to bait my hook if we use the supers. I just don't like those grub type worms. Yuck
That's fantastic that mealworms can be dried in a dehydrator. I'll have to google to see if I can find instructions to do that. And yes those super worms do pinch. I really won't handle them and we use them alot around here for fishing. As I read here, one of the members raises the supers and said it's not the same process as raising the regular meal worms. I'd be interested in trying my hand at raising them too if I can find a how-to article bc they don't bother Michael to handle them
Are you the person who has the fb group on mealworms?
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