Mealies Now Beetles.

[JoshCrane1]

been ignoring my mealies for the past month, now i look and i see a lot of beetles now, is it ok to feed my chamy mealie beetles?

 

[SoCaliSon]

I would just wait till the beetles mate and you end up with a ton more mealies... Save your self some money... It is easy to breed the Mealies... I have been doing with supers for a while and they are a bit tougher... But as you can see ... all you have to do to get the Mealies to Pupate is forget about them.

 

[JoshCrane1]

what else in involved in breeding them since they are beetles now?

they are black and brown. and runnin round like crazy, they cant fly right?

 

[tryme]

make sure the beatles have some thing like half a potato or something and keep them warm and i find they work better in the dark or they burry themselves.

 

[JoshCrane1]

so i just keep em in the worm bedding with potatos and they will breed by themselves?

 

[SoCaliSon]

Yup... and Tryme is right ... A couple slices of potatoe... I have also used apples... in there will provide food and water. Keep them in a dark warm corner of your closet and make sure it is not in a place where it will end up accidentally tipped... ( I learned the hard way... my cat tipped it and it sat all night... I was finding beetles and worms for days... had to empty out the entire room and shake out everything.) Just leave them to do there thing.. and remove dead beetles when you see them.

 

[tryme]

hell yeah my tub got tipped i had mealworm beatles flying two of them and yes they can fly short distances believe me lol