Sifting and sorting

I spent about two hours last night, sifting and sorting my first mealworm container.  There were two reasons: it had a LOT of "frass" in it, plus there was a really wide variety of sizes of worms in it.  When I got my first batch of beetles, I guess I waited too long to sift the eggs, and now that container has every thing from 1/4" worms that are the size of a hair, up to ones that are turning into pupae.  I really need to sort every two weeks or so to keep the worm size uniform.

I used my metal sifter to get the frass out, and only a few tiny worms went through.  I spread the worms and wheat bran (which was mostly eaten) into a plastic container and used tweezers to pick out the little worms, which I put into two containers: "small" and "tiny".  I have two drawers of smaller mealworms of two sizes.  I'm really surprised that the drawer I sifted on 5/21 has visible worms in it!

I need to make a chart of when I sift each drawer.  I have sticky notes on the drawers, and this blog is mainly for my reference, so I know what I did and when, but a chart would help.

I've also thought that I should buy another set of plastic drawers that are not so deep.  I don't really need the depth that I have, and having more drawers would be handy.