Meal Worms...Breeding?

[MegaS13]

What Types Of Enviornments & Containers Do You Use When Raising & Holding Bugs. I Buy Things Of Mealworms & Could Use Information On Mass Producing These Babies! I Did Notice Some Worms That Spent A While In Cage Started Becomming Very Plump And I Guess Evolving. I've Also Noticed Beatles Before Is This What Meal Worms Grow Up To Be?

 

[jvillereptile]

i keep my mealworm colony in a long plastic bin with meal and an apple for water and mealworm are baby beetles

 

[MegaS13]

so you just raise them to turn into beetles are do they keep producing young and you weed them out when they are too old?

& Where Do You Purchase Your Meal Worms & At What Stage Of Life?

 

[jvillereptile]

all i do is remove old fruit and remove dead beetle and add meal when needed they grow and reproduce on there own i also take out what i need when i feed my animals treats regular mealworm are the best for breeding i order them as mealworm at about 1/2-1" larva stage and let them grow. i had at one point all my mealworm turn to beetle and now i have baby worms again. i order them from a company that only ship to florida but there are a lot of company that sell mealworms