Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Traveling worms...again!

The worms have gone with us to Florida again! We left home on April 5th and I brought one set of six drawers with us. I have two sets of drawers in use, but decided that the "younger" ones would be fine without any maintenance for two weeks. I gave the biggest worms to my neighbor to feed to her wild birds, combined my next two drawers into one, and brought my original six drawers with us in the motorhome. I have beetles in one drawer and pupae in another, with worms in the other four.

I brought what I thought was enough wheat bran to last me, but I've had to clean the worms every couple of days, and won't have enough. There's a Tractor Supply here, but I really don't want to have to find space for a 25-pound bag of wheat bran, so I decided to buy a large box of oatmeal to feed the largest worms with. When there were mostly out of food, they were munching on the larvae (mealworms will eat almost anything!), so I had to give them something to eat. I think it will be OK. It's just a little harder to find the larvae to pick out, since they're pretty much the same color as the oatmeal.