Well, my mealworms are coming right along, i have had dozens of them now hatch into beetles and I have everything from just hatched white ones to black ones now in the bedding, I think i am surprised at how quickly they are able to drain out their water sources, I have mixed it up  a bit on that, they have had banana peel, carrot ends, celery ends and potato slices.. they seem to like them all, none of them have molded at all, and none of them lasted near as long as I thought they would given the limited number of worms in the bin.. which leads me to think either a) the oatmeal is part of the issue compared to using bran? or b) I will need to be prepare to change these out more often as the breeding group grows.

I have to admit that I was a bit worried about sharing house space with worms and bugs but they have proven themselves to be very polite and steady guests. the worms are slow moving and are dry to the touch and don’t wig me, and the beetles are much the same, they are slower moving, they seem to do everything with the plod of a turtle (at least the turtles in the books, because little bright eyes can book it!)

They can grip on to your fingers but they don’t bite and again if you just lower your hand down, they will step off ever so gently, they don’t have any smell that I can tell of at this time, it smells like oatmeal.

My oldest beetles are at the stage they should be able to start breeding and egg laying over the next two to three weeks and hopefully by the end of the month, I will have thousand of eggs in that bedding.. at least I sure hope so..