Mealworms environment?
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Moist and  dark\n\nDid you know meal worm eggs are in all flour. There is no known way to get them out.\nWhy? the egg is smaller than the gran of flour.
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So the wife refuses to let you keep a box of Mr Wiggley in the refrigerator.... did you tell her that in some country's they are considered a delicacy??  Yeah, it didn't work for me either.  But it did give me an excuse for buying her a new refrigerator...lol.. \n\n  Now on a serious note.... as long as you can find a spot to keep them in a temperature zone between 38 and 63 degrees and you keep the soil moist, worms will thrive.  I have found that if you make a worm bed (I use and old tub someone was throwing away) and put in on the north or east side of the garage.... you can fill it with leaves, some potting soil and some topsoil... add the worms and table scraps or 2 cups of dog food about every week or week and a half and in no time.... fresh bait whenever you want it.... just keep it covered so it doesn't get flooded when it rain.... and don't plug the drain hole.... the worms won't leave unless you let the bed get too dry and forget to feed them for two months.\n\nAnd there are other kewl things about it too... worm dirt is a great fertilizer for house plants or tomatoes in the garden.... and you get to day dream about the next big bass you catch with your home grown baits as you enjoy your warm beer (bet she won't let you keep it in the fridge either... she says something like milk is more important)..... then think of the money you get to save.... at $2 for a dozen and a half... gee, pretty soon we're talking new bass boat!!.... And if time are tough.... stir fry!! Well maybe not.\n\nHappy wormin'!!
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I can't find anything on that - looks like you are going to have to do an experiment.  You can find earthworms at any bait store, colored light bulbs at the nearest Wal Mart.  have fun!
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I don't think it will make a difference. Roaches can survive and practically anything. I live on Guam where they are abundant.\n\nI am a Scuba instructor and have seen them eat silicon off masks! I have also seen evidence of them eating things like the gum on envelopes.\n\nRemember these guys are small and just even a crumb of bread is a feast to last them days or even weeks. Water in the pans may deter them but any food floating or on the rim will be a wonderful snack.\n\nIf your roommate is messy enough to leave pans unwashed I'm sure he has spilled food around to contribute to the species.\n\nI think you should get rid of your roommate before getting rid of the roaches.\n\nGood luck and clean living!
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Start eating elsewhere. Start letting the filth pile up. If you don't make the mess,you don't have to clean it up. You might even drop a few fake roaches about the kitchen until the real ones show up !
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If the answerer above had actually read the link he provided, he would have realized that millipedes are NOT predatory.  They feed on dead and decaying plant material.  They really like lettuce and cucumbers, but both of these are mostly water, so it's important to supplement it with other fruits and veggies.  Since they like 'em rotten, it's not important to get them out of the tank when they start getting icky.  This is a good way to use up those bendy carrots and freezer burned peas.  They also like fish food flakes (which are pretty much just algae).  I've heard that some of the brassicates (broccoli, cauliflower, kale, cabbage, Brussels sprouts) can be poisonous to millipedes.  I don't know if it's true or not.\n\nDead and decaying plant material from outside (leaves, weeds, etc) can also be provided, for habitat if not food.  You should put this in the freezer for a few days before adding to the tank to kill off any outside bugs that are hanging onto the material.\n\nThe rotting vegetation in the tank is probably the only drawback to keeping pet millipedes.  Other than that they're pretty easy to keep, and interesting.\n\nThey do exude a nasty smelling chemical when disturbed, which includes toxins like cyanide (!!!).  So it's important to wash your hands thoroughly after handling millipedes.\n\nThe millipedes themselves don't require spraying.  They do like high humidity in their habitat however, and if you are keeping them in a tank, then the plants and moss in the tank should be kept moist.  How often you need to do this will depend on how high the temperature inside the tank is, and what your local humidity is like.  Where I live it is very dry, and one tank of millipedes I helped take care of needed misting twice a day.  Other areas may require much less.\n\nHow long they live depends on what species they are.  Most pet millipedes are African giant millipedes, and will live 7 to 10 years if kept healthy.\n\nMale millipedes have a specialized pair of mating legs on their 7th body segment called gonopods.  These look kind of claw like, and may be carried tucked up under the body.  That's the easiest way to tell them apart from females, but it's not that easy to see even if you know what you're looking for.\n\nIf you do indeed get a male and female millipede, the mating will pretty much take care of itself.  Once they lay eggs, the little baby millipedes will stay under the soil, so you need to bury some food for them.  Another major food source for the babies is actually their parent's poop, so it's a good idea to bury it in the tank, rather than cleaning it out.
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Actually a large enough container may have enough oxygen without the holes. Just as important is keeping a decent air flow to prevent fungal growth. There are many fungal species that attact living insects. High humidity and stagnant air promote fungi over insects. The best way to rear a caterpillar is to keep them in a paper bag or a gauze sleeve that is slipped over the host plant.
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I found it on the web site. Scroll to the bottom of the page.\n\nhttp://scitec.uwichill.edu.bb/bcs/courses/Ecology/BL21C/ECOL2453_sc/Seasonal_communities.html
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Look up 'nematodes'.\nLook here too:
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Planaria are very sensitive to light. They feed in darkness. If they stay in light too much it overloads their simple sensory system and they can't function very well.
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Mother Earth and the grub worms.
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cockroaches and polar bears...  ;)
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Cockroaches are the most repulsive of all household pests. Not only do they look disgusting, but they act disgusting. According to the National Pest Control Association cockroaches can contaminate food and transmit disease\n\ncarrying organisms, including staphylococci, strep, colform molds, salmonella, yeast’s and clostridia. They also spread parasites that cause toxoplasmosis, an illness that can causes birth defects if the pregnant women gets infected.\n\nCockroaches spread disease by carrying contaminated organisms onto your countertop or onto your leftout food. Roaches will eat animal and human feces, rotten and contaminated food, book bindings, leather, and even the\n\nglue on canned food labels. They like the glue in paper bags and can be transported from grocery store to homes via the bags.\n\nThere are 4 types of cockroaches. The German Cockroach; the most common and the smallest of the species. American Cockroach; light brown with yellowish wings, can’t really fly, but glides. Oriental Cockroach; dark reddish brown. Brown Banded Cockroach; yellowish or brown with brown bands on wings. Cockroaches can grow to be 2 inches long.\n\nAs for reproduction, all cockroaches produce offspring the same way. The females produce 20 to 30 egg capsules per cycle, each containing between 15 and 40 eggs. Females can have up to 30,000 offspring in their lifetime.\n\nCockroaches like dark, moist, warm places to live in. The kitchen and bathroom fit this description but so do other places like laundry baskets. They will also live in boxes, paperbags and books. It is easy to transport them from house to house and even across oceans.\n\nPrevention and control are important in the fight to eliminate cockroaches. Killing only the ones you see is not effective, because if you see one there is 300 in hiding. To eliminate them in your house you have to get rid of their food and water, eliminate the present population with a poison and prevent future cockroaches from invading your house.\n\nAlways plug drains on sinks when not in use. Cockroaches can’t swim but they can come in through sewer pipes if the water has subsided. Keep counters, floors and cupboard free from food and crumbs.\n\nInsecticide sprays can be used to control cockroaches. You can call out a professional and pay for the service to your home. You can also spray yourself with an insecticide you buy at a home center. You have to make sure you get all the hiding places, cracks, crevices, baseboards and under\n\nsinks. you can also place boric acid powder along the same places and then when a cockroach walks through it, it clings to their feet and antennae. When they ingest the powder it kills them. Boric acid is fairly safe to use and\n\nhandle. Ingested in large quantities can make a human sick too. Cockroach bait houses are also effective as a supplement to spraying.\n\nYou must prevent cockroaches from entering your house by sealing up any holes and cracks along baseboards, door frames and windows. Seal up the space around water and sewer pipes, and electrical and telephone lines where they come inside. Keep all piles of debris and mulches and compost piles away from your house. Spray the perimeter of your house frequently. Cockroaches are stow aways and will come into your house in boxes, bags, pet food cartons (cockroaches love dog food), appliances and laundry, so inspect them carefully.
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keep them in a ventilated container, not in direct sunlight or they will get cooked.\n\nif you know what plant they were feeding on, collect fresh leaves for them every day or keep extras in the fridge.\n\nif your not sure what plant they were eating, give them a couple of differant types and they will show you what they like by devouring it.\n\ndon't feed them what crickets would eat as they are quite different, crickets are nocturnal and live underground or in crevices, grasshoppers feed in the day and live above ground
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"Random Non-sensical Stuff"\n\nYes, this is what I need! I need a category where I can ask if it snows in Honduras will the spotted meal worm be able to approach puberty in time. \n\nOr......these three which will now and forever remain near and dear to my heart:\n\nIf you were a freshly harvested eggplant would you feel guilty that most of your nutrition was erased by the fact you were breaded and deep fried and turned into eggplant parm?\n\nDo erasers silently scream when you traumatically scrape their head across the paper leaving behind tiny bits of their scalps?\n\nIf you were born with more than the normal number of toes would you hide your malady in shame or would you try to exploit it on the sideshow circuit?\n\n\n\nI shall now campaign for "Random Non-sensical Stuff!"
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Black Garbage Fly\nThey may become abundant in piles of poultry and dairy cattle manure. The larvae are "beneficial" by preying on other fly larvae, especially the house fly. However, excessive numbers of adults may become annoying.\n\nDomestic Flies\nDomestic flies, often called "Filth Flies," are not only a nuisance by their presence, but are important from a human and animal health standpoint. House flies may spread diseases such as conjunctivitis, poliomyelitis, typhoid fever, tuberculosis, anthrax, leprosy, cholera, diarrhea and dysentery. They may serve as intermediate hosts for parasitic tapeworms on poultry or parasitic roundworms on horses. Certain larvae of blow flies, bottle flies, screwworm flies and flesh flies may feed on dead as well as living tissue of mammals, causing blood poisoning and even death, especially in sheep. Stable flies bite painfully, sucking blood from humans and animals. False stable flies do not bite, but spread certain diseases, whereas the little house fly hovers in mid air in the middle of rooms.\n\nBottle and Blow Flies\nThese flies are often attracted to dead animals, animal wounds, and feces-caked hair or wool on pets and farm animals. Larvae are commonly found in garbage wastes and pet droppings.\n\nFlesh Fly\nFemales deposit living maggots rather than eggs in decaying flesh of dead animals and excrement, especially dog stools.\n\n\nDrone Fly or Syrphid Fly\nLarvae, known as "Rattailed Maggots," develop in polluted water. \n\nStable Fly\nAdults resemble house flies except for the slender, pointed, sharp beak used to pierce skin and suck blood. Bites are painful. These flies may transmit anthrax and possibly infantile paralysis, leprosy, surra and swamp fever. Normally an outdoor fly, it attacks any warmblooded animal from rats to humans. \n\nFalse Stable Fly\nAdults can transmit filth-related diseases.\n\nLittle House Fly\nFemales lay eggs in semiliquid organic matter such as animal and human excrement.
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Agalychnis callidryas prey on small insects.  I hope that is specific enough.  I could have said things that move.