The start of my meal worm breeding.

I decided I was going to give it a go and try to breed meal worms. Here is the start,



There is approximately 30 meal worms in the container. I plan on just letting these guys just hang out and do there thing. Once they turn into pupae I will transfer them into another container (same as first container) and let them turn into beetles. After couple of weeks I will remove the beetles and wait for my meal worms. As this is all happening I will have the first container repeating the first step.

What does every one thing?

Looks good! It may take a few weeks for them to pupate! I'm still waiting for mine to pupate lol.

Good luck!

kathstew wrote:Looks good! It may take a few weeks for them to pupate! I'm still waiting for mine to pupate lol.

Good luck!

Yea thats what I am thinking but no worries. The last time I purchased meal worms I got 500 on top of the hundred I started with lol.

So by the time I am running low I should or hope to have plenty of my own meal worms ready to go.

hey dont be surprised if the pupate faster....I started my mealworm colony like days ago and i already have 3 of the alien pod things lol.....i was using wheat and oats too at first but it was just really hard to see everything so i switchd to cornmeal its like 100 % better and the worms love it they literally shed in it every like 5 hours i have a million white worms crawling around in there lol!

oh and use baby carrots and apple slices because taterz mold 2 fasttttt and put a cover on to make ur veggies last longer just dont 4get 2 poke holes!

Can someone tell me what cornmeal is please or the equivelant in the uk.

Lol ok the best way i can explain it ozziesmum....go in your local grocery.....where they have flour.....cornmeal should be right in that section....its just basically like ground corn...lol corn flour

Thank you Elz I'll go see if I can find some tomorrow.

sure thing bud