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...
August 25, 2018
August 7, 2018
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...