Breeding Mealworms

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What you need:

#1 Two Rubbermaid containers

#2 About $10.00 to buy 1000 mealworms

#3 Meal for them to eat. Link on how to make it here.

#4 Egg cartons or something like that for the meallies and beetles to hide in and under.

#5 Lettuce, carrots etc.

Now I’ll go through it step by step.

First step- Buy two Rubbermaid containers. One will be used for beetles and the other one for meallies, so get them pretty big. You’ll need alot of room for meal.

Second step- Fill the bottom of both containers with meal. Get a recipe on how to make it Here. Both beetles and mealworms like to burrow plus this is the food for the meallies. Put an egg carton in both of the containers. The meallies will tunnel through this and the beetles will hide under it.

Third step- Buy your mealworms. You can get 1000 for about $10.00 (includes shipping) at www.bcrcricket.com. After they arrive your ready to go to the next step.

Fourth step- The meallies will come in a card board box. Dump all of the meallies into the first container. Put a leaf of lettuce or some carrots in the cage for water. Don’t leave the lettuce or carrots in the cage for too long because they can mold and cause a bacterial infection in the container. Remember don’t feed any of these meallies to your gecko. Wait until you have a steady colony going before you use them as food.

Fifth step- After your meallies have been in the container for about two-three weeks they will start to pupate. They will turn white and look like little pointy things with a big head. You can make sure they are alive by gently squeezing them. If it doesn’t wiggle it’s dead. When you find them in your cage put them into a little butter container or something small. They don’t need any meal since they don’t eat during this stage. Check the container every day for beetles that just hatched.

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This is a picture of a live pupae compared to a dead one next to a nickel.

Sixth step- When you finally find beetles put them into the second container. You’ll need to feed them lettuce and carrots since they don’t eat the meal. Do this until all meallies have change into beetles and died. The meal that was in the second container is now full of baby mealworms. Do not throw it away! You can now feed them lettuce. You can buy another 1000 and do it all over again until you have a big colony.

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