Lots of mealworm work!

I spent the whole morning working on my mealworms.

I had noticed that the bedding in my drawer of larger worms was just powder and not the flaky wheat bran any more.  I was afraid that a lot of it was their droppings and not anything nutritious, so I decided to sift the worms out and give them new bedding.  I used a large metal kitchen sieve, and the powder went through well, and just the tiniest of worms.  I spent a lot of time picking out the tiny worms that had fallen through.  I just hate to waste them.  I had to use my long bird-feeding tweezers to pick them out.  If I had a garden, the powder would probably make good fertilizer!  After I got the worms separated, I took their picture and then put them in fresh bedding.  I also found a handful of new pupae and separated them.

I sifted my beetles again and gave them new bedding.  I used another plastic container for them, but I've got to figure out what to use for this fourth drawer.  I took their picture, too.

I guess the only way to keep the worms a uniform size is to sift the beetles more often, but that will take a lot of containers.