Here are the results of our current rotating 2 week mealworm harvest.

It is better this time, I had enough to divide it in half and put one half in the fridge for later. However, I think I will be just using cornmeal instead of an oatmeal and cornmeal mix. My strainer that will let the oatmeal pass through also lets mealworms pass through, and the strainer that keeps in the mealworms also keeps in the oatmeal. So, we’ll try omitting the oatmeal.

As it was it was easier to pick the mealworms out of the substrate with my fingers than to use the strainers. Yes, with my fingers. The mealworms aren’t slimy or cold, and only slightly wiggly.

I did find more pupa and transferred them to the pupa drawer, and I cleaned the dead beetles out of the beetle drawer. It is a good thing that some of the mealworms reach pupal stage, since I had about as many dead beetles as freshly emerged beetles. This is certainly an interesting experiment.