Meal Worm Farm Day 1 - Starting To Pupate

Heres a new series i'm starting showing the development of Meal Worms, here they are munching on some slices of Potatoe, they also have Porridge at the bottom, and the little white things twitching are the Pupae which will soon turn into bettles!

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• Meal
• Worm
• Farm
• Diary
• Day
• Starting
• To
• Pupate
• Aliens
• Beetles
• Insecnts

[kenny2498]

hi my pupa after about 3 days in pupa form i find a liltle thing right next to it do u know what it is??

[HordeFTL]

@kenny2498 What did it look like?

[ildj08]

how do i get the worms to turn into pupa?

[HordeFTL]

@ildj08 Just leave em a week, mine always turn into pupae even when im not breeding them

[ildj08]

@HordeFTL ok when you mean leave them do you mean put them into a separate container w/o any food or just leave 'em there? b/c i've tried leaving them in the container where i gut load them and they still don't turn, they're already starting to get to the age of a giant mealie. or could it be the fact that i bought giant mealies and they in turn morphed and became beetles and so the process began?

[HordeFTL]

@ildj08 its best to put pupae into a separate container as mealworms are known to bite the pupae, you don't need food with the pupae as they can't eat

[HordeFTL]

@ildj08 Yeah you should let them be, starving them wouldn't help try and put at least a few slices of carrot/potatoe/green leaves in there, they should turn to pupae after a few days

[largepandabutt]

The beetles arent breeding, i havnt gotten baby worms in a really long time

[ildj08]

@HordeFTL oh ok thanks man

[ildj08]

@HordeFTL ya i know that but i was asking and wondering how to get the worms to morph into pupa faster. do i just put them into a container while they're still worms and basically starve them until they change b/c lack of a food source, or do i just let them be?