Is breeding mealworms as easy as it sounds?
They’re so easy that I completely forgot I had mine but when I go downstairs to check on them they’ll be fine. (I just checked … there are too many dead beetles but plenty of live stuff. They’re due for a cleaning.) No doubt if I took better care of them they’d thrive more, but even with almost zero care they still breed and live. I’ll tell you what, I change their substrate maybe once a year. Seriously. I don’t tend to any specific stages. Right now the box contains worms of all sizes, the beetles, the larvae, and there are eggs in there but I have no idea where. I don’t know how you’d even go about cleaning every few days. When I do clean, I do a pretty meticulous job. I go through and pick out anything I can find that’s alive, and put it in a clean box w/new substrate (some kind of cereal flakes … maybe I chose a nutritious one like Special K but it might be just Corn Flakes). I get rid of everything that’s dead. That’s that. But I keep the old substrate for a few more weeks bec
