Actually, using vegetable pieces is how I 'catch' my smaller mealworms.
I usually feed the colonies carrot slivers, leafy greens or celery
stalks and wait for about 1/2 - 1 hour. After the wait I scoop up some
pieces of vegetable along with the substrate and then place these in
another container for sorting. The mealworms usually start eating the
veggies and are concentrated around these. For 'substrate' I use corn
and other flours. I have found that using oats makes it more difficult
to find the mealworms, flour is very easy to sift through and there are
many different varieties.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Those tiny mealworms are really tiny! You have a chance of having some if your
>oolony has "bolted" (to use a gardening term, sometimes applied
> > to aging lettuce)
>
> My colony has 'bolted' (that's why it is a colony), as has my lettuce! (it's coming
>up all over my yard now--seems to be the only place I can grow it actually!)
> Should I just stick some little worms in a bottle cap or somesuch?
>
> > there for awhile, you probably have very young larvae ("worms").
>
> How big are they when they hatch? I keep mine on oats, so I may be mistaking the
>smaller ones for pieces of grain!
> BTW, does anyone know if they actually need fruit or veggies? My seem to be doing
>OK without it, since I tend to forget about them.
>
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