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Originally Posted by Blackbrook Eye  I have been breeding my own mealworms for about eighteen months and once you have bought your initial stock, you only need a dozen or so to start a collony, the cost amounts to a kilo bag of porridge oats once a year and a few slices of apple, potato or something along those lines to provide them with moisture for drinking, you can then leave them in a jar or some other container to get on with it, no need for a lid on the container, they don't go anywhere. They will eventually turn into Darklin beetles via pupation and the whole process begins again.
As mealworms they will keep for several months in a cool atmosphere and can be kept almost indefinately in a refridgerator.
Hope this is of use. 
Keith |
Once the mealworms turn into beetles is there anything different you have to do for them to breed? I assume that once you have adults then you do need a lid because they can fly?