i'v tried to raise meal worms twice, the second time i was for sure i was successfull, i had about 40 beetles, i kept them by 5's in small plastic containers and they were constantly mating, and about a month later they all started dieing to where i only had 1 left so i went a head and gave it to my water dragon to eat. what did i do wrong?
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meal worm beetles
lrptls
Jul 31, 2003 03:05 PM
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Sybella
Jul 31, 2003 03:15 PM
The beetles only live a short time. Their purpose is to mate and lay eggs. If you didn't have them on some mealworm bedding, then the eggs they layed would have hatched and died because there was nothing to eat.
Try it again...make two containers of bedding. Oatmeal, bran flakes, rice baby cereal, powdered milk, etc. are all good things to mix up in the bedding. Keep your meal worms in one container and then when they pupate, put the soon-to-be-beetles in the 2nd container. They will mate and lay eggs in the fresh bedding. Once the beetles die, throw them out. Within a couple weeks, you should see little mealworms in that container.
tanias16
Jul 31, 2003 03:16 PM
Dont keep them in small containers, give them plenty of substrate, food, veggies, moisture. They will die, and they might even eat each other... you'll need to start an entire circle. You have to wait months before you'll even be able to see the smallest of babies. Once your there its alot easier.
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