I kept the mealworm tub in the back bedroom, it’s been there for a few weeks, next to the sun lounge, decided to feed the birds today & fetched the tub, on opening it in the sun lounge saw lots of little black beetles in it among the mealworms. I got a shock & scattered the lot over the garden, mealworms & beetles together. I didn’t think they could hatch seeing as the mealworms were dried, thought that stopped them changing, guess I was wrong. Noted a Blackbird likes them though.
Good Grief! Tiffany.
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Oh my lord 
. Given they’ve survived being dried, then being incarcerated in a sealed plastic tub for god knows how long, I reckon the little bugs deserve to live 
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Exactly what I thought too!
They are all in the garden now. 
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Along with the bowl, I hope 
I’m glad for the birds, but honestly…if I had this in my room I would have just chucked it in a tied up bin bag and outside pronto!
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There are none left in the tub, I made sure of that, I’ll wash it & use it again.
It’s a good size & useful.
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My word…I admire your bravery 
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They are only little beetles, Pixie, nothing to be scared of.
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Scuttling beetles give me the heebie jeebies, Tiffany…I will never be ok with this
I can’t even look at the beetle close up photo you did…all that poopy stuff inside the bowl! Ugh! No, no, no 
The only way I am even dealing with this is that you have well fed birds in your garden 
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Oh my gawd, that is so gross, I didn’t even know mealworms were baby beetles!
And to have survived being dried out they must be really tough. They say cockroaches would survive a nuclear apocalypse don’t they? 🪳🪳🪳🪳🪳🪳
Sorry to gross everyone out but I did a Google and some people deliberately grow their own meal worms like that to feed the birds to save buying them
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I’ll take your word for it Maree…I’m about to have my tea so I’m not clicking any wormy beetle link ta
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I know people do breed their own, but I can’t even feed live mealworms & always buy the dried ones, never realising they can change like that, they should be dead.
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I had to chuckle at that, sorry Pixie.
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Oh yuck. Yuckity yuckity yuck 
. I really wish I hadn’t opened that link. Now I can’t unknow it 
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Never knew that could happen to dried mealworms,Tiff.
I haven’t read the whole thread, was it to do with the conditions they were in?
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You & Pixie are both whimps. Now go eat your tea
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Thank you for taking one for the non-wormy team, Sheba! I commend you 
You are braver than I 
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No idea Pauline. It’s never happened before & I’ve kept them for as long before as well.
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