Thank yiu so much for your comment! Im glad i could help and im glad you liked how i explained it. I always had a problem understanding also, and when i finally figured it all out i tried to make a video to explain as simply as possible.

I know the comment was from a while ago but put wheat bran in there with carrots

Awsome! Perfect timing then haha

No problem! Im glad it helped

No problem! Wishing you luck!

Thank you for thw kind words! I appreciate it

Thank you so much!

No problem glad i could help!

No problem! If breeding them in large amounts always check for grain mites! You dont want to have to deal with those. Trust me lol

The mites are attracted to grains so will end up in the colony if using oats, and just infest it. They are also known to already be in bags of oats or at least the eggs, so its difficult to avoid it also.

No problem! A lot of insects get most of their moisture from their food

Your very welcome. Thanks for the support

@@OutdoorsAndBotanical your very welcome

Good luck! Let me know if you have any questions

White beetles as in the pupae? Or right after they emerge? If you mean when they emerge, they turn blsck within a few hours/days, so they will start eating when they are ready. You can feed them carrots, lettuce, etc

No problem! And i dont think it would be a problem but the odd one might get eaten. Most people keep separate so they dont have to sift through babies to get the big ones.

Thank you!

Without a picture i cant say what they are but based on what you raise mealworms in it could be some type of flower beetle, or maybe dermestid beetles. They could be bad and they could make competition or overrun the colony.

I dont believe it would have any benefits, i havent heard of this being done before. I suspect it could cause fungus and mold to form.

You could but dead beetles attract mites and can rot, also sometimes not all beetkes die right away and will eat the babies. Or maybe you want to have a very large colony of beetles so you have a lot of live ones still when you need to separate the babies, so you have to sift them out to seperate

They dont live very long after laying eggs so they just die.

It does take a long time to get started, but once its going youlle have mealworms of all sizes all the time

Ive never really had a problem with pupae being eaten. I just check the pupae tub daily and remoce the beetles.

@@OutdoorsAndBotanical okay I moved the white ones in their own container to pupa

Yes!

55 might be a tad cold for them but im sure you can still do it. Maybe use a heat lamp or pad near them. Bug burger is a repashy brand powder that you can buy and make into a gel for the worms to eat. And i just use a kitchen sifter but i dont exactly know the size. I just bought a cheap dollar store one with holes small enough that the beetles and oats wouldnt fall through

Ive never tried, but i dont see why not.

Room temp is good, a bit warmer doesnt hurt, and air holes is definatrly a good idea

@@OutdoorsAndBotanical thank you so much 👍

No problem!

Thats a great question! Unfortunately i do not know the answer to this.

@@OutdoorsAndBotanical thanks

Sorry i couldnt be of more help!

Thats also a way to do it, i like to get them into less substrate right away so its easier for them to find food though.

Basically however for superworms to have to separate the worms to get them to pupate.

Unfortunately you cant, you just have to gutload before they are adults

Placing them in the fridge will prevent them turning into beetles

It will but they wont eat much if snything while in the fridge.

Have you sifted them out? The babies are probably there but really tiny, even digging through you wont see them. I would try sifting them out

Outdoors And Botanical I have screen on the bottom and another container underneath. I give it a shake and they fall through. I looked closer and I do have babies. Thank you

No problem! Good luck with the babies!

Usually i just burn the house down and move, but sometimes you can get rid of them by basically cleaning everything. Theres no easy way to eliminate them. Get rid of the affected containers and use soapy water to clean everything else. Then in the future put your containers in a tray with dietomaceus earth.

@@OutdoorsAndBotanical : How can you tell if there’s mites present in the tubs, & do you put the worms directly into diatomaceous earth, if one chooses that route to go ?

@@OutdoorsAndBotanical : I hope you don’t get mad &/or frustrated with me asking questions ! Doing what’s best for my mealworms will end up with great production ! Ty for all yer help ! I greatly appreciate it !

No the dietomaceus earth kills the mites so you lay a tray of it out and sit the containers with your mealworms on top its like a barrier not a substrate. When the mites walk across it to the tub it cuts them up and suffocates then and they die. Its pretty hard to see the mites, usually you dont notice until its too late and they are everywhere. Important thing is to check regularily. Once a weak or more take some substrate out and spread it on a piece of black paper and try and spot some mites. Also check on the carrots or whatever food you put in to see if mites are on it. If they are rly bad you will see them. Its like moving dust all over the container

@@OutdoorsAndBotanical : Thank You soooooooo much for yer help ! 😁

You can buy the mealworms at a petstore and allow them to grow into beetles.

That is their pupal stage before turning into a beetle!

I usually wait about 4 weeks thwn sift, sometimes the beetles are dead sometimes not. I keep adding beetles as they mature, so the ones that are alive are usually the youngest

Outdoors And Botanical how long the adult beetles live. ? How you know the beetles are death , do you noticed because they don’t move?

They live less than 1 month, and they dry up and dont move.

I did, i dont keep them anymore.

@@OutdoorsAndBotanical do you know how to get started on selling them?

Hey, when breeding mealworms the beetles live for a few weeks, lay eggs then die. When i put beetles into a breeding bin i wait until the majority are dead before sorting them because that guarantees to me that they have laid all their eggs, and there will for sure be babies. These beetles were all at the end of their life cycle

Yes indeed

I dont think that would work, as the oats are basically their food.

Outdoors And Botanical what if you feed them because I have heard oats are to acidic! Love your vids by the way!

Hmm ive never looked into that but am curious! Did you see information about that somewhere?

@@OutdoorsAndBotanical Yes I believe Leopard gecko talks about that in a video of her setting up her feeder insects. Let me know what you think if you do watch any of her videos of her setting up her meal-worms and other feeders to I believe

Thats awesome! Ill check that out now. I have a second channel called mini beasts Canada, for videos like these now, check that channel out if interested!

Yes you can

@@OutdoorsAndBotanical how can I make. Give me any tips bro plsss

All thw informatiom you need is in this video. I explain the whole process

It is oats

How do you separate the Oaks from the mealworms

You can use a strainer

Yeah they are super tiny

Turn the volume up.