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I have had this "colony" of worms for almost 2 years now and suddenly I got these teeny tiny white bugs allllllll over it! I got these in my super worms a while back and the little bugs were eating the beetles and getting under the skin of the worms, this is not happening with the meal worms though. Does anyone know what these are? Am I going to have to junk these worms and start over? OR are they still ok to feed to my dragons?

Thanks!
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DogStar

"Many have forgotten this truth, but you must not forget it. You remain responsible, forever, for what you have tamed." --Antoine de Saint Exupery

hi...this is a wild guess but could´t it be mite that you got. Take a bug under a microscope and see what they look like. I have heard that thera are diffrent kinds of mite. Some will go on insects and other on animals and that the ones on the insects does not bother the larger animals, but I´m not certain. If it is mite that you got they kill the mealworms by sucking out their blood. The mite then should become red. If it is mite that you got I would throw away all the mealworms and the container too atleast disinfect it and then wait some time before starting all over again. I got mite on my crickets ones and I hade to throw almost 500 large crickets away.

Hope you get rid of whatever it is that is praying on your mealworms

If they are, they won't hurt your reptiles and probably came from new mealworms or bran that went in there....I would start fresh, simply because the grain mites are so hard to get rid of and can get into all of your bug breeding operations. Mealworms are relatively easy to start over with...
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