Mealworm farming

[cmarlowdrive]

No pulpae in shipment, just worms. Keep looking for change, nothing.

 

[aart]

Quote: I'd beware of sponges.....I used them and they crawled(chewed?) right into the sponge.

The twine 'wick' in a bottle is an interesting concept.

 

[Mini Meat]

No pulpae in shipment, just worms. Keep looking for change, nothing.

If you have the super worms they need to be separated to pupate. I use 2oz portion cups w/ holes punched in them. 1 worm per cup. I put them in a separate bin in a dark place. No food... no water. It can take weeks before you see the first pupae. A few will die.

 

[Jensownzoo]

I had some giant mealworms and they took over a mine to start pupating. And were still going 3 months later.

 

[cmarlowdrive]

Did you mean took over a month to start to pulpate? Maybe I am expecting too much too early. Maybe it takes longer with giants. I hope that is the case. Thanks for the post.

 

[Matt M]

I am not a mealworm farmer dut I looked in to it and I read that if you order gaint mealworms that they are ingected with stuff to make them digger no idea if that is true so don't hold it a a gents me. Good luck

 

[mollymoore]

I once used giant meal worms that came from Wal Mart. They did go though the life cycle, but it took a while for them to change, longer than other meal worms I got in the mail.

 

[Jensownzoo]

Did you mean took over a month to start to pulpate?  Maybe I am expecting too much too early.  Maybe it takes longer with giants. I hope that is the case. Thanks for the post.

Yep. There are probably a lot of variables that go into the timing (temp, humidity, age, etc.), but it did take a month for the first one for me.

 

[cmarlowdrive]

I have a question as to why my mealworm pulpae are not turning into beetles. It has been at least a month of harvesting pulpae and separating them into their own bin. They are just turning black and dying.
What am I doing wrong?

 

[Jkaczanowski]

For me, things generally turn black and die when there's not enough moisture. When I started keeping a small Tupperware container with water in it in my pupae bin, my losses definitely went down.