Keeping Mealworms Alive

One of the best ways to offer a healthy food to your pets or wild birds, is to offer natural, live, canned or freeze dried insects. Mealworms are a fantastic way of providing both nutritional and dietetic diversity. The "common mealworm" (Tenebrio molitor) is probably the most widely raised feeder insect available. We keep them well fed with vitamin packed Exotic Nutrition's mealworm bedding/feed, so they deliver the highest nutritional value. Mealworms are extremely easy to keep. Just store them in your refrigerator at 45-50 degrees F. where they go into a dormant state and last for months. We suggest that you remove the mealworms from the refrigerator once per week, feed them Mealworm Bedding/Keeper along with Mealworm Grub and raw potatoes. Allow the mealworms to feed for 24 hours, then place them back into the refrigerator for long term storage.