What is the country of origin for your mealworms? And how long can you keep them?
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U.S.A. My last purchase lasted five or six months. I have 4 hens and 1 rooster.
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I keep my mealworms in the refrigerator in a plastic salad keeper with holes I punched in the top. I add plenty of oatmeal for them to live in. Every few days they get to live out of the refrigerator for the day with sliced apples and/or carrots in their container. Then it is back in the frig, minus the apple slices. I put a handful in the mealworm bird feeder every couple of days. It works good for me and they last quite a while.
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I just keep them in a kitchen cupboard that is handy to head outside with them. They do not need to be refrigerated as live mealworms do. I just do not like mealworms in my fridge, and the birds just love these...so much so that I had to order a feeder that keeps the larger birds (and squirrels!) from getting all the worms!
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I had treated the yard with other insecticides before the nematodes arrived also, so I called the company and asked them. They said wait at least 30 days. You can keep the nematodes in the refrigerator for up to 14 days, and with my luck, the 30 days coincided with the 14th day I had to store them. I can say that I did this last summer, when the fleas were absolutely horrible (the worst I've ever seen) and hoped they'd establish a good colony for this summer, and apparently they did. I might have picked one or two fleas off my bulldog all summer, haven't had a single flea jump on me at all, so I haven't retreated yet. They should have had an abundance of larvae to feed off of all winter long, so I'm hoping that with the lack of fleas this year, and without retreating, that the ones that have worked so well for me don't migrate to a better food source this winter! I think I'll wait now and retreat after the last frost in the spring.
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The worms are shipped in a canvas bag with newspaper inside. The bag is inside a regular cardboard shipping container with holes punched in the sides. Not a dead worm in the bunch when I received them. I have purchased from this company many times and the service and quality are very consistent. The last batch I received more than six weeks ago and I still have some left. I feed them ground oatmeal and coarse cornmeal and keep them in a bed of shredded paper in a small plastic tub.to keep them fresh.
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I, personally, have never heard of Giant Mealworms. Superworms are a different species from Mealworms. I found this about the two:Giant mealworm can refer to: Tenebrio molitor larvae which have been grown to a large size by being hormonally treated to delay pupation. Zophobas Morio larvae naturally grow to a large size. However, the Superworm is not defined as a mealworm in any fashion.
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I would keep them in the fridge if you do not intend to release them right away so they are cool for a couple if days, I buy them to release right away, spray them with the nectar and the plants with the nectar so they have something to drink and to keep them from flying away right away. When they come to you they are very hungry so I would not wait for more than a couple of days. They will get out and drink, feed, mate, and you will have more. Use them in clusters on bad infestations, they take care of the bad bugs on your plants.
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China, and although it's very cute, it doesn't quite look like the picture. Mine has only one dragonfly and one butterfly on the platter and the rest is composed of mainly lady bugs, bees and flowers, with one very pretty little beetle that I can't identify. I hope, if you purchase, that you get lucky with your bugs :D
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Hi, Amy. Good luck with the dried meal worms. We can't keep enough in he feeder during the cold months into early spring. We have noticed a slow down, but they still disappear in a couple of days. If you are a little more adventerous, try LIVE meal worms. The birds go nuts for these. The drawback is that they have to be kept in the fridge but if you're OK with that...a tupperware container with strips of news paper and some holes in the lid works just great. Bluebirds are our biggest consumers but other birds frequently stop by for a snack. Best wishes and good luck!!! alan in MA
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China. Honestly, unless you have money to burn, don't. I haven't used em yet. Poorer quality than my IKEA bowls even.
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I have these dishes and like them very much, but I just looked at the bottom of them to answer your question. I found they were made in Indonesia.
792371
Mine came from China. I am not going to grow these, do not want to contribute to any more alien invasive plants.
1620126
The food source / breeding ground must also be eliminated. They swarmed my trap like a cloud after I placed it out. If it's the result of infested parrot food like mine was, place the food in the freezer for at least a week. (I do three weeks) Also place your flour, rice, macaroni and any other type of grain food in zip lock or plastic containers like Tupperware. They can even infest unopened boxes. Doing this will eliminate future infestations. Mine were gone in about two weeks. I highly recommend these traps.
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As I recall they are from Turkey and Spain mostly. I don't eat them from Russia/CHina/Korea etc - those tend to cause "pine mouth". Meidterranean are oval-ish, the others are tear drop - avoid them.
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"I" did not respond they are from Virginia or Brazil. I have no idea where they're from. I bought some, emptied them into a big treat jar and give my dogs 1 every day. They love them. I'm about to order more. I'll let you know where they're from once I get them.
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The tags on mine say nothing about where they're made. All they have on it is their website (SimpleEcology.com), where I saw nothing about country of origin.
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We tried raising mealworms for Bluebirds, and fed ours primarily on carrots, & sweet potatoes. It was going pretty well, but became a challenge to change out the bedding while keeping the eggs and small worms, and I didn't care to take the time to develop a better way. The Bluebirds are fine with freeze dried worms, and so am I. I've actually been tempted to try a dried worm, they don't smell bad, but haven't worked up the courage yet.