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#1415072
Leokeeper
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Giant meal worms/normal meal worms 
Hey my bug supplier gave my 100 giant meal worms(look like normal meal worms to me lol) golden and 1 inch long anyway I fed them and left them out of the fridge and they all morphed well some died but I have for sure 50 pods(look like litle yellow aliens lol) I was wondering how long tehy take to turn to beetles and what specail do they need to breed? there is a rubbermaid contained about teh size of Two show box contaienrs with an inch of wheat bran for bedding....do they need soemthing else when they turn to bettles?food and anything else?
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08/22/07 07:18pm
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#1416016
Clouddancer22
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Message To: Leokeeper In reference to Message Id: 1415072
Giant meal worms/normal meal worms
Put some slices of potatoes in there for moisture. They morph to beetles pretty quick, I am thinking a couple of weeks? I have wheat bran mixed with oatmeal. You can also get laying chicken mash at the feed store, I have heard that is really good.
The wait for the beetles to lay eggs and the eggs to turn into more mealies is the long part - several months.
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08/23/07 12:26pm
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Message To: Clouddancer22 In reference to Message Id: 1416016
Giant meal worms/normal meal worms
Good luck. Giant mealworms are regular mealworms that were sprayed with a chemical to keep them from pupating. I had some giants pupate but came out only half formed.
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08/25/07 01:14am
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#1451942
Knat
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Message To: Leokeeper In reference to Message Id: 1415072
Giant meal worms/normal meal worms
You might as well throw the pupa away if its your goal to raise mealworms, giant mealworms have been treated with insect growth hormone and the beetles they turn into will be sterile. The hormone slows/stops the rate that they turn into pupa though given enough time they can still morph. If you just want some beetles to look at get some wheat bran, or corn meal, and throw a few carrots in there for moisture and they should live for a month to a month in a half, if you want to raise meal worms get ones labled as large mealworms.
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09/21/07 04:50pm
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