Grow your own mealworm!
>> Do something for your health and family budget! Mealworm larvae can be easily grown even in a city apartment. Here, in a few lessons, you will learn how to breed and rear mealworms. Mealworm breeding lessons – a guide on how to do it.
Mealworm breeding lessons
Breeding and rearing mealworms is very simple, inexpensive and time-saving, odorless and noiseless. You can also entertain your children very well with it.
Establishing of breeding
Lesson #1: Breeding basics >> Here, you can learn about establishing an insect farm – including the choice of containers for mealworms and the composition of the breeding substrate….
Larvae fattening
Lesson #2: Feeding and hydration >> Feeding mealworms keeps our workload to a minimum. The exception is regular hydration of the larvae. The larval food is based on the…
Harvesting
Lesson #3: Harvest season >> Just like with any other livestock, raising the larvae ends with their harvesting and euthanizing. Rearing mealworms – harvest. This chapter does not concern…
Pupae
Lesson #4: Pupation >> Pupae are the third and penultimate developmental stage of mealworm. Once the larvae pupate, the beetles hatch after about 10 days. If the first mealworms…
Egg clutch
Lesson #5: Parent breeding box >> Egg laying is ensured by the parent breeding box specially designed for the efficient separation of mealworm beetles from the laid clutch and…
Sorting
Lesson #6: Sifting trays >> Sorting of pupae and larvae and sieving of frass are essential parts of the mealworm rearing process. After some time, we will realize that…
In the kitchen
Lesson #7: Cooking insects >> Where to buy mealworms, how to store, cleanse and euthanise them and the most important – how to use them in the kitchen. Many…
The mealwormfarm Insecto.cz specializes in optimizing the process of breeding and rearing mealworm larvae. If you are interested in collaborating in this field, please feel free to contact us!
