Mealworm bedding

[Ken Bartenfeld]

I know you can keep them in unprocessed whole wheat...I was curious, to make it easier to sift through when I keep them...can I take them out and keep them in whole wheat flour? Adding some other things like blended up oats and possibly that baby cereal? Would this work and be suitable? I just want to be able to scoop and sift it out and pick out the worms...thanks!

 

[Riverside Reptiles]

Ken, don't know if this will help, but Geckodan has some suggestions for mealworm bedding on his web site here:
The Pro’s and Con’s of Mealworms as a food for reptiles

 

[acpart]

The only thing to watch out for with mealworm bedding is that you don't keep them in something powdered so fine that they get clogged up and die. That happened to me when I made my own gutload, though I don't know if it was because of the fine-ness of powdering or haviing too much oily nut and seed ingredients.,

Aliza

 

[Ken Bartenfeld]

Might have been the oil. I've heard of some beetles that live in flour. Curious, do mealworms have to have brewers yeast?

Thanks by the way Ethan!

 

[leogecko]

Can you put mealworms in crushed up whole grain cereal?