Thank you everyone for all the info. Can I feed them something to keep them alive longer? Don't know why I never thought of worm poop before, have been using my bare hands to get them out of bag they came in with. I put mine in oatmeal, (not the quick kind) and feed them apple slices.

When considering how to raise mealworms, it’s important to know what they’ll eat. The Vanity Sale they can eat apples, carrots, yams, pears, potatoes, lettuce, cucumber, strawberries... pretty much any fruit or vegetables - dont forget to give them the bran though. By the time the mail ordered worms arrived, the babies were all dead.So I have 3000 worm plus the leftover from the 500 worm I bought locally sitting in the refrigerator, and only one lonely male bluebird comes every morning for mealworms. I may never get to FaceBook to catch up with folks. I'm looking for all info on feeding and raiseing mealworms, such as type og bedding or oats to keep in, what to eed, etc, and breeding also, not to sell just to raiseI have mine in oatmeal. Is it okay to feed more of them than the live ones, with plenty of clean water available, of course?Please see my post asking about calcium if you have time.

But the heat-loving insects visit at night to deposit microscopic yellow eggs on on your cuke plants. You’ll want to keep the substrate dry, to ensure that you’re not adding any fungus or mold as well. [New male in training. They will actually eat the celery right up so there's nothing left but strings.I left the mealworms with chipped up carrots overnight outside the fridge, they ate all the carrots, nothing left. Easy Decor Upgrades It has also been very entertaining to our 2 year old grand daughter, as we have watched the different stages of the worms. Taking your advice, I have used the food processor chopping up carrots and mixed it with the worms. Saw a female blue with the male this morning, hope he finally found a wife.You wouldn't of had to chop the carrots up fine like that, it will make it much harder to get any of the leftover carrots back out. The mail ordered medium size worm are quite small, maybe I can feed them something so they can grow bigger. The health of your mealworms can help to keep your pets healthy as well, and it doesn’t take much effort to provide them with a diet that’s absolutely optimal. Just came to post a question about helping BB's get calcium. Sounds like yours came in wheat bran, they eat that too, along with oatmeal.

Then the parents suddenly disappeared. By the time the mail ordered worms arrived, the babies were all dead. I mail ordered 3000 mealworms when my bluebird babies hatched. The have grown and multiplied. And to think I thought we were bad by being trained by the bluebirds to ONLY feed live mealworms. I chopped up the carrots very fine. Also, it is best to clean out what ever you have the worms in...they poop alot. Hubby laughs at me when he sees that I have them spread out on a big sheet of wax paper and am picking them up with tweezers putting them in a clean container. For moisture I use only celery now. Any suggestions are welcomed!Sara, you can feed them carrots, thin sliced potatos (I don't use them cuz they turn black) I have fed them banana peals, but mostly carrots. And in reality, there’s a surprisingly wide variety of options which can be used. Who knows. To clean them out I use an old sieve. These perennials offer superfood to hundreds of bees and are gorgeous in their own right

We want to start feeding ours to keep them alive longer when needed, get them bigger if that is still as nutritious for the birds, and maybe raise our own, eventually. That makes feeding them easy enough.

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