More on Mealworms

I wrote earlier about my mite infestation here and here.   So far my containment strategies are working.  Though my mite infestation continues, it is in a self-contained universe. And the process of taking worms out of a contaminated bin, rinsing them off, and blotting them on paper towels...

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Mites in the Meal Worm Bin II

I wanted to provide an update on my mite infestation of my mealworms that I wrote about here.  This situation came about due to my increasing the humidity in my meal worm bin (as I had too dry of conditions prior and had die offs). Though the mealworms were happy, happy, happy it allowed for a...

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Mites in Mealworm Bin

In doing my research on starting a mealworm colony, I noted that grain mites can be a problem.  To avoid this catastrophe I dutifully microwaved the bedding substrate.  No problems.  When my last batch of mealworms ordered suffered an inordinately high rate of die off, to include the...

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Mealworms

There's alot of information on raising mealworms.  I've tried to adopt what appeared to my eye to be best practices (after going into an OCD research mode). My current production began with 5,000...

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Bluebirds--Falling in Love and Dealing with Trauma of Premature Fledging due to Snake Predation.

I provide this narrative to (1) introduce how we became interested in bluebird nest and more importantly (2) relay our stragegies in a premature fledging situation. We had a tough winter in Virginia.  We have always fed the birds during all year long.  I've never gotten fancy, just black...

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