Transferring Beetles in a Mealworm Farm
In my Mealworm Farm I fill a single container with adult Darkling Beetles and allow them to mingle for a few weeks. That gives them time to lay thousands of eggs which will hatch and grow into Mealworms, at which point the Beetles need to be moved to another container to repeat the process.
My initial plan was to remove sources of moisture for the Beetles a few days before I wanted to move them, and then place carrots and potatoes inside to draw their thirst's attention. The hope was that they'd all climb onto the moisture filled vegetables and I'd be able to just move the food to the other container with the Beetles on it, but it didn't work out as well as I'd hoped.
I stumbled upon a more effective way of transferring the Beetles when I noticed that several of them would fall into little empty cups I placed in the container on a daily basis. To encourage this to work at max effectiveness, I placed the cup in one of the corners, piled the oatmeal bedding up to the lips of the cup, and tilted the entire container so that the corner with the cup was lower than all the others.
The result was a cup full of Beetles the next morning! Way easier than the other plan I had in mind...
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Waoo, amazing experiment friend, this is the collective intelligence that is needed in Steemit, Greetings brother!
Glad you enjoyed it @hernanjosegb, and greetings to you my friend!
Good video. I raised meal worms for several years, but my wife didn't like them in the house during the winter. I found carrots worked best because they do not go moldy.
Hi @hansjurgen! Glad you like the video. I agree, carrots are the best I've found so far. They last a long time and there's basically no processing beforehand (e.g. don't have to slice a potato, etc.).
Did you wife not like them in the house because of the smell?
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