10/04/2026
What do you mean mealworm farming can't be fancy?
I've been looking for ways to improve our mealworm set-up for this year to reduce faff. I will no doubt develop this further as I need to scale up, but for now, I think this works.
I've looked at lots of different examples, both homemade and (very expensive) purpose built units, and the principles are the same.
So, I'm using a spoon dish as the grub tray (it even has a handy little lip for the beetles to crawl off from) sat on top on a tiny glass jar, weighed down with oyster shells for stability. This will stop the beetles from crawling back up and eating the grubs.
The whole thing is sat in a perforated drip tray. This way, the eggs can fall through to the box below and the beetles can be moved easily to a new box in a few weeks.
