Thursday, January 8, 2009

Hoping for eggs

I'm not sure what I should be doing next.  I read a couple of instructions, and I'm supposed to separate the beetles from the eggs so they won't eat them, but I'm not sure I have eggs.  There's some small "trash" underneath the beetles' oatmeal, but I don't know if it's eggs or just oatmeal trash.  The beetles are supposed to lay eggs after a couple of weeks, and I've had beetles for longer than that, so I should have some. 

They say to sift the beetles out, but the oatmeal and the beetles are about the same diameter, so that's not practical.  Maybe I should get some oat bran to use as bedding, and then I could sift.  I ended up just picking the beetles out, which took a long time since I have a lot of beetles.  I put them in another plastic container as I picked, and them poured the oatmeal (and hopefully some eggs) into the bottom drawer which has the remaining worms in it.  This is the drawer which I hope will someday contain baby worms after they hatch.  

I put new oatmeal in the top drawer and poured the beetles back in so they can lay more eggs.

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