 | Posted by: | Sheila, kwillson5@home.com | | Subject: | Mealworms - make your own | | When: | 10:56 PM, 03 Jan 2001 | | IP: | 65.3.3.164 |
A lot of people in the message board ask me about hand raising meal worms. This is how you do it.
First you need some Gut Load <a href=http://www.petopia.com/product_info.asp?sku=9631600351>http://www.petopia.com/product_info.asp?sku=9631600351</a>
or Cricket Duster
Following the direction on the package. I have never used these products although I think you would have healthier meal worms if you did.
What I do is take a cool whip container and cover it with cheese cloth and a rubber band. Put about 20 Mealworms in there and cover with oatmeal. Slice a potato or apple and change that out once a week. Leave this inside your house in normal temperature. In about three to four weeks the mealworms get larger, then turn into a larvae white (almost beetle), then finally a full fledged beetle. Then they lay the larvae again and those grow up to be adults after about 4 weeks and then eat the beetles. It is a cycle. If you only have about 2 gliders start out with about 10 instead of 20. Within a couple of months I had about 100...
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| Posted by: | Barb, blooprints@yahoo.com | | Subject: | none | | When: | 1:21 AM, 04 Jan 2001 | | IP: | 63.178.69.39 |
I raise my own mealies too. I keep them in bran - no gut load for mine. For moisture, they get what fruit and veggies the gliders haven't eaten. In the summertime, they get the corn cobs when the gliders are through with them...The mealies love that. Since I have so many gliders, I started my mealworm colony with 5000 - feeding the gliders too. It's easy and cheap to raise mealies....Mine are in a large 10 gal or so plastic container.
| Posted by: | Kimi, norby@greenepa.net | | Subject: | none | | When: | 1:23 AM, 04 Jan 2001 | | IP: | 209.117.80.28 |
Thank you Sheila! No Pet stores here and bait shop ones dont look healthy, plus lots are dead.
Again thank you! be sure I will have questions later!
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