I really thought that my rotating meal worm drawers would yield a batch of large worms every two weeks or so once I had it going. But right now I have large larva in nearly every drawer. So today I started picking out the large worms to feed to the chickens. There are also beetle eggs hatching in the beetle drawer, but I think I’m just going to let those become beetles. If they survive the adults. I do separate the pupa when I find them.

My yield certainly isn’t what I thought it would be. I’m not sure if I didn’t start with enough beetles, or the house geckos have been getting in and having a smorgasbord.

We’ll continue the experiment for awhile because, frankly, it is hardly any work at all. I add wilted lettuce leaves for the beetles, and carrot peels and pieces for the larva, both of which are abundant at my house. I switch drawers once every two weeks, which entails putting oatmeal and/or corn meal in a drawer. It would be more work to take it all down.