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The beetles will lay eggs which hatch into mealworms and so on.After a few weeks the mealworms will turn into creamy pupae, then into little black beetles. Introduce two or three hundred mealworms into the prepared tin.Keep the tin at room temperature, not in hot sun. You can put a raw cabbage leaf on top if you like. Put a slice or two of bread and raw potato, followed by another two layers of sacking/bran/bread/potato, like a three-decker sandwich.

Punch small holes in the lid for ventilation, place a layer of old hessian sacking in the bottom and sprinkle fairly thickly with bran.

It can become quite expensive to constantly buy mealworms, so you might want to grow your own.įor a constant supply of mealworms, prepare a large circular biscuit tin as follows: