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 How do you make a meal worm breeder?

How can I make a cage for breeding beetles? The beetles I’m talking about are meal worm beetles.
Thanks in advance,



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11/11/07  11:10am

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 How do you make a meal worm breeder?

Use a plastic tub or tank with about two inches of oat meal or oat bran. Put some cardboard egg cartons, cardboard toilet paper tubes, cardboard paper towel tubes, etc. on top of the oats to create hiding areas. Put in apples, carrots, potatoes, etc. for moisture and change these regularly. Keep the tub/tank in a warm area.

Keep all the stages of the mealworms separate. The mealworms and beetles will eat the pupa or each other so keep each stage in a different container.



11/11/07  05:53pm

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Stitchex
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   Message To: DragonPaw   In reference to Message Id: 1510040


 How do you make a meal worm breeder?

Thanks, now, is there a way to tell the difference of male and female beetles?
11/11/07  07:10pm

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DragonPaw
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   Message To: Stitchex   In reference to Message Id: 1510149


 How do you make a meal worm breeder?

Nope. That is why you should start out with many beetles so that you have a higher chance of getting a good number of males and females.
11/12/07  01:29am

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Stitchex
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   Message To: DragonPaw   In reference to Message Id: 1510698


 How do you make a meal worm breeder?

ok, thank you!
11/12/07  08:05am

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Jerald
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   Message To: Stitchex   In reference to Message Id: 1510819


 How do you make a meal worm breeder?

what i do is, i get a plastic shelf with about 3 drawers, then i fill them with dry oatmeal, then i put the beetles on top, meal worms in the middle, then the alien looking thing on the bottom
12/24/07  07:04pm


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