We’ve resorted to buying 10,000 (that’s not a typo!) at a time from Buckeye Organics. How we raise themĢ022 UPDATE: For the last two years, we haven’t been able to successfully raise mealworms, but we don’t know why.
The beetle is the adult stage of the mealworm. Maybe not thinking of the mealworms as “cute” makes it easier to serve them up as bird chow. Somehow, it seems a bit more charming when a butterfly caterpillar molts. The mealworm The skin after molting The adult mealworm beetle We start with mealworms and after many months, end up with mealworms - BUT, with any luck, many more mealworms. The “worms” (really just a larval stage of a beetle) metamorphose into beetles, and then they lay eggs and become larvae (worms). The chickadee after some initial hesitation learned to find the side entrance hole. This is what we came up with - covering the open space with cardboard and cutting a chickadee-size hole.
When the blue jay started visiting the mealworm feeder and gulping them down, we had to think of a deterrent.
0 kommentar(er)
