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Tsung Mealworms, Briggsdale, Briggsdale, CO (2026)

11/11/2020

Updated Set Up

A.) Dark Mealworms
B.) Yellow (Standard) Mealworms
C.) Superworms

1.) Freshest Pupae
2.) Oldest Pupae
3.) Beetle Bin
4.) Oldest Larvae
5.) Middle Larvae
6.) Youngest Larvae

Please realize that we had a couple of months without much growing, so we cleaned everything up and are working on setting everything back up correctly. Will update with Drawer # and purpose when we are fully cleaned up and situated.

05/01/2020

Mealworm Farming End of Week 10:

Large Wide Drawers:
1.) Empty.
2.) Empty.
3.) Yellow Nursery 1, Beetle Bin 2 was placed here today, and will remain there for 4 weeks.
4.) Yellow Nursery 2, Beetle Bin 1 was placed here today, and will remain there for 4 weeks.
5.) Yellow Nursery 3, Lots of Babies, this drawer is a combination of the babies from the first 6 weeks.
6.) Yellow Nursery 4, Lots of Babies, this is where Beetle Bin 1 was for the last 4 weeks and there are thousands of babies in here now.
7.) Yellow Nursery 4, No movement yet, Beetle Bin 2 was in here for the last 4 weeks, combined with the frass from the single colony, and the nursery drawer from the smaller drawer set.
8.) Empty.
9.) Empty.

Small Tall Drawers:
1.) Dark Mealworms 1: 1000 Smallish Dark variety mealworms, growing these guys out to beetles.
2.) Dark Nursery 1: working on putting together a new Beetle bin for these guys. There are approximately 35 beetles currently.
3.) Empty
4.) Empty
5.) Empty
6.) Empty
7.) Dark Mealworms 2: 100 Mixed sized Dark variety mealworms. These guys are already pupating and turning into beetles.
8.) Yellow Mealworm 1: 100 Large yellow variety mealworms. These guys are also already pupating and turning into beetles. I will be mixing these guys between the 3 yellow Beetle bins
9.) Empty
10.) Empty.
11.) Yellow Nursery (Small 1) Beetle Bin Small is currently in here with about 300 to 400 beetles. I am leaving these guys in there for awhile longer, so they have a good chance at having babies.
12.) Empty.

Small Short Drawers: (empty except noted)
1.) Pupae Drawer 1:
2.) Pupae Drawer 2: pupaes from the 100 Yellows and 100 Darks from the other breeder.
3.) Pupae Drawer 3:
4.) Pupae Drawer 4: approximately 6 pupae left from the mealworms I received from Rainbow Mealworms. Beetles were removed from this bin after photo was taken.
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Flat Colony: All growing mealworms are currently here, not sure how many there are, probably 1000ish.

Refrigerator (no photos): 4 containers with several thousand mealworms to be fed off.

04/20/2020

Mealworm Farming Week 9:

Large Wide Drawers:
1.) Yellow Mealworm 4, currently empty.
2.) Yellow Mealworm 5, currently empty.
3.) Feeder Drawer, I moved all of the medium/large mealworms into a container in the fridge to decrease the the number of pupaes i was getting daily. I then moved a bunch of the mealworms that needed to grow into here. I will be growing these ones until they start to pupate then I'll sift through them, remove all frags and medium/large mealworms to the fridge.
4.) Yellow Nursery 1, Babies (not as many as I had hoped) I'll probably combine both baby drawers here in a couple of weeks.
5.) Yellow Nursery 2, Lots of Babies, this drawer has a ton of Mealworm babies, you can see the food moving just by looking. These ones also appear to be bigger in size then the drawer above as well.
6.) Yellow Nursery 3, Beetle Bin is currently in here.
7.) Yellow Nursery 4, Beetle Bin 2 is currently in here. This is where I'm putting all new beetles for now.
8.) Yellow Mealworm 2, currently empty.
9.) Yellow Mealworm 3, currently empty.

Small Tall Drawers:
1.) Empty
2.) Empty
3.) Empty
4.) Empty
5.) Smalls
6.) Smalls
7.) Yellow Nursery (Small 1) i moved the grass from the colony bin into here along with whatever eggs had been laid from the beetles that I had in this container.
8.) Empty
9.) Empty
10.) Yellow Mealworms (small 1) I moved the worms from the colony into here all together. I sift out pupaes daily from this container, and only this container.
11.) Yellow Nursery (Small 2) Beetle Bin Small is currently in here with about 300 to 400 beetles.
12.) Empty.

Small Short Drawers: (empty except noted)
1.) Pupae Drawer 1:
2.) Pupae Drawer 2: pupaes that are currently emerging into beetles 6 days to 13 days old.
3.) Pupae Drawer 3:
4.) Pupae Drawer 4: All other pupae are currently here 0 to 5 days old.
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Flat Colony:
Empty, I didn't like this set up.

04/05/2020

Mealworm Farming Week 7:

Large Wide Drawers:
1.) Yellow Mealworm 4, currently empty.
2.) Yellow Mealworm 5, currently empty.
3.) Feeder Drawer, Medium Mealworms, sipping feeding for a few days and going to collect pupae and beetles.
4.) Yellow Nursery 1, Lots of Babies, no updates.
5.) Yellow Nursery 2, Lots of Babies.
6.) Yellow Nursery 3, Beetle Bin is currently in here.
7.) Yellow Mealworm 1, currently empty.
8.) Yellow Mealworm 2, currently empty.
9.) Yellow Mealworm 3, currently empty.

Small Tall Drawers:
1.) Medium Mealworms
2.) Medium Mealworms, getting pupae daily.
3.) Minis
4.) Minis
5.) Smalls
6.) Smalls
7.) Yellow Beetles, second batch (rotating which bin I'm putting the freshly hatched beetles in.)
8.) First batch of minis
9.) First batch of minis
10.) Empty.
11.) Empty.
12.) Frass lots and lots of frass

Small Short Drawers: (empty except noted)
1.) Pupae Drawer 1: pupaes from 4/2 to 4/4
2.) Pupae Drawer 2:
3.) Pupae Drawer 3:
4.) Pupae Drawer 4: All other pupae are currently here.
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Flat Colony:
A flat plastic container that has 3000 Mixed sized Mealworms in it. We removed all Beetles and pull out pupae daily. Going to let all of these guys pupate, and won't be able to sift them for a long time, as I'm sure there are eggs and babies in there.

04/02/2020

Mealworm Farming End of Week 6:

Large Wide Drawers:
1.) Yellow Mealworm 4, currently empty.
2.) Yellow Mealworm 5, currently empty.
3.) Feeder Drawer, all large mealworms have been fed off, and now has some mediums that are fairly large.
4.) Yellow Nursery 1, Lots of Babies, no updates.
5.) Yellow Nursery 2, Beetle Bin is here for 1 more night, then will be moved to nursery 3 tomorrow.
6.) Yellow Nursery 3, currently empty.
7.) Yellow Mealworm 1, Mini's, just growing.
8.) Yellow Mealworm 2, Old Minis, starting to get pupae out of here.
9.) Yellow Mealworm 3, Smalls, no updates.

Small Tall Drawers:
1.) Dark Nursery 1: Empty.
2.) Dark Nursery 2: Medium Mealworms, getting pupae daily.
3.) Dark Nursery 3: Medium Mealworms, getting pupae daily.
4.) Dark Mealworm 1: Empty.
5.) Dark Mealworm 2: Empty
6.) Dark Mealworm 3: Frass, lots of Frass.
7.) Hybrid Nursery 1: Yellow Beetles, second batch (rotating which bin I'm putting the freshly hatched beetles in.
8.) Hybrid Nursery 2: Empty
9.) Hybrid Nursery 3: Empty
10.) Hybrid Mealworm 1: Empty.
11.) Hybrid Mealworm 2: Empty.
12.) Hybrid Mealworm 3: Empty.

Small Short Drawers: (empty except noted)
1.) Pupae Drawer 1:
2.) Pupae Drawer 2:
3.) Pupae Drawer 3:
4.) Pupae Drawer 4: All pupae are currently here.
5.) Dark Mealworms 8: Tiny Yellows, no change.
6.) Yellow Mealworms 5: Small Yellows, no change.
7.) Yellow Mealworms 6: Empty
8.) Hybrid Mealworms 4: Empty
9.) Hybrid Mealworms 5:
10.) Hybrid Mealworms 6:

Flat Colony:
A flat plastic container that has 3000 Mixed sized Mealworms in it. We removed all Beetles and pull out pupae daily. Going to let all of these guys pupate, and won't be able to sift them for a long time, as I'm sure there are eggs and babies in there. I will probably be moving these guys into Yellow Mealworm 5 tomorrow, and use these tubes to store things (after any eggs hatch)

03/27/2020

Mealworm Farming End of Week 5:

Large Wide Drawers:
1.) Yellow Mealworm 4, currently empty.
2.) Pupae drawer, 11 containers with pupae (photo below). We are getting hundreds of pupae daily, and we are only pulling out enough to fill one layer of each of our 11 containers.
3.) Feeder Drawer (photo below). We have put all but one other drawer of large mealworms in here. We are feeding mealworms daily, but they seem to be multiplying🤣.
4.) Yellow Nursery 1, Lots of Babies (photo below) no additional updates.
5.) Yellow Nursery 2, Beetle Bin is in here, we are getting roughly 50 new beetles every day, and adding the healthy looking ones to the beetle Bin. We pull out any dead beetles out daily. (Photo below)
6.) Yellow Nursery 3, currently empty.
7.) Yellow Mealworm 1, No change. (Photo below)
8.) Yellow Mealworm 2, No change. (Photo below)
9.) Yellow Mealworm 3, No change. (Photo below)

Small Tall Drawers:
1.) Dark Nursery 1: Large Yellows, our last drawer that will be added to our feeder drawer sometime this week.
2.) Dark Nursery 2: Empty.
3.) Dark Nursery 3: Empty.
4.) Dark Mealworm 1: Empty.
5.) Dark Mealworm 2: Currently Empty
6.) Dark Mealworm 3: Currently Empty
7.) Hybrid Nursery 1: Medium Yellows, no changes.
8.) Hybrid Nursery 2: Medium Yellows
9.) Hybrid Nursery 3: Medium Yellows
10.) Hybrid Mealworm 1: Medium Yellows. Pulled out a pupae from this drawer, so they are starting to grow.
11.) Hybrid Mealworm 2: Medium Yellows.
12.) Hybrid Mealworm 3: Currently Empty.

Small Short Drawers: (empty except noted)
1.) Dark Mealworms 4
2.) Dark Mealworms 5
3.) Dark Mealworms 6
4.) Dark Mealworms 7
5.) Dark Mealworms 8 Tiny Yellows, no change.
6.) Yellow Mealworms 5 Small Yellows, no change.
7.) Yellow Mealworms 6 Large Yellows, pulling out pupaes daily. Will probably be moving these guys into the feeder bin as well, though we had planned on keeping them.
8.) Hybrid Mealworms 4 Medium Yellows, pulled out 2 pupae, so we are going to have a bunch more shortly.
9.) Hybrid Mealworms 5
10.) Hybrid Mealworms 6

Flat Colony:
A flat plastic container that has 3000 Mixed sized Mealworms in it. We added in 10 of our original beetles into this container, and have added about 50 pupae as well. We shall see how things go. (Photo below)

03/20/2020

Mealworm Farming Week 5:

Large Wide Drawers:
1.) Yellow Mealworm 4, currently empty.
2.) Pupae drawer, 5 containers with pupae
3.) Feeder drawer, currently has 2 containers that I use to carry mealworms out to the chickens.
4.) Yellow Nursery 1, Lots of Babies
5.) Yellow Nursery 2, Beetle Bin is in here.
6.) Yellow Nursery 3, currently empty.
7.) Yellow Mealworm 1, No change.
8.) Yellow Mealworm 2, No change.
9.) Yellow Mealworm 3, 5000 Small Mealworms from Rainbow Mealworms.

Small Tall Drawers:
1.) Dark Nursery 1: Large Yellows, no change.
2.) Dark Nursery 2: Large Yellows, no change.
3.) Dark Nursery 3: Large Yellows, no change.
4.) Dark Mealworm 1: Large Yellows, no change.
5.) Dark Mealworm 2: Currently Empty
6.) Dark Mealworm 3: Currently Empty
7.) Hybrid Nursery 1: Medium Yellows
8.) Hybrid Nursery 2: Medium Yellows
9.) Hybrid Nursery 3: Medium Yellows
10.) Hybrid Mealworm 1: Medium Yellows
11.) Hybrid Mealworm 2: Currently Empty.
12.) Hybrid Mealworm 3: Currently Empty.

Small Short Drawers: (empty except noted)
1.) Dark Mealworms 4
2.) Dark Mealworms 5
3.) Dark Mealworms 6
4.) Dark Mealworms 7
5.) Dark Mealworms 8 (500 Yellow Tiny Mealworms)
6.) Yellow Mealworms 5 (500 Smalls)
7.) Yellow Mealworms 6 (500 Large)
8.) Hybrid Mealworms 4 (500 Mediums)
9.) Hybrid Mealworms 5
10.) Hybrid Mealworms 6

Flat Colony:
A flat plastic container that has 3000 Mixed sized Mealworms in it. Going to try the one bin method with them and see how will it works. Will be placing a container inside with pupae on top and probably throwing in a few beetles as well. Stay tuned to see how this turns out🤣

03/19/2020

Mealworm Farming End of Week 4:

Large Wide Drawers:
1.) Yellow Mealworm 4, currently empty.
2.) Pupae drawer, I have 4 small containers of 20 to 100 pupae separated by day (photo below of today's collection). Going to replenish my Beetle stock and keep the best looking beetles for breeding.
3.) Feeder drawer, currently has 2 containers that I use to carry mealworms out to the chickens. I put a small scoop of game bird starter and then a scoop of 200 to 500 mealworms in each container (see photo below). The night before feeding them off, a scoop out any dead beetles from the beetle bin and throw them in with any veggies that need tossed. The chickens love seeing ne every morning.
4.) Yellow Nursery 1, there is a paper towel that was in with the beetles for 2 weeks, I can now see a ton of teenie tiny mealworms on that. (Photo below)
5.) Yellow Nursery 2, Beetle Bin is currently here, I scoop out any dead beetles daily, though that's only one or two.
6.) Yellow Nursery 3, currently empty.
7.) Yellow Mealworm 1, No change.
8.) Yellow Mealworm 2, No change.
9.) Yellow Mealworm 3, Currently empty.

Small Tall Drawers:
1.) Dark Nursery 1: Large Yellows, no change.
2.) Dark Nursery 2: Large Yellows, no change.
3.) Dark Nursery 3: Large Yellows, no change.
4.) Dark Mealworm 1: Large Yellows, no change.
5.) Dark Mealworm 2: Currently Empty
6.) Dark Mealworm 3: Currently Empty
7.) Hybrid Nursery 1: Prepped for 2500 Medium Yellow Mealworms, coming soon.
8.) Hybrid Nursery 2: Prepped for 2500 Medium Yellow Mealworms, coming soon.
9.) Hybrid Nursery 3: Prepped for 2500 Medium Yellow Mealworms, coming soon.
10.) Hybrid Mealworm 1: Prepped for 2500 Medium Yellow Mealworms, coming soon.
11.) Hybrid Mealworm 2: Currently Empty
12.) Hybrid Mealworm 3: Currently Empty.

Small Short Drawers: (empty except noted)
1.) Dark Mealworms 4
2.) Dark Mealworms 5
3.) Dark Mealworms 6
4.) Dark Mealworms 7
5.) Dark Mealworms 8 (250 Yellow Tiny Mealworms)
6.) Yellow Mealworms 5 (250 Smalls)
7.) Yellow Mealworms 6 (250 Large)
8.) Hybrid Mealworms 4 (250 Mediums)
9.) Hybrid Mealworms 5
10.) Hybrid Mealworms 6

Flat Colony:
A flat plastic container that will house 3000 Mixed sized mealworms. Going to try the one bin method with them and see how will it works. Will be placing a container inside with pupae on top and probably throwing in a few beetles as well. Stay tuned to see how this turns out🤣

03/17/2020

Mealworm Farming Week 3.5:

From now on, my updates will be going by Drawers, so it's easier for me to update.

Large Wide Drawers:
1.) Yellow Mealworm 4, currently empty.
2.) Pupae drawer, currently have roughly 50 pupae that I've pulled from the Large Mealworms to replenish my beetle supply. As it may be awhile before my Beetle person will start shipping again. They are in smaller circular food containers to separate out by date, so they are easier to transfer later.
3.) Feeder drawer, currently has 2 containers that I use to carry mealworms out to the chickens in. These guys will be fed off on the colder days around here for now.
4.) Yellow Nursery 1, there is a paper towel that was in with the beetles for 2 weeks, I can now see a ton of teenie tiny mealworms on that.
5.) Yellow Nursery 2, Beetle Bin is currently here, I scoop out any dead beetles daily, though that's only one or two.
6.) Yellow Nursery 3, currently empty.
7.) Yellow Mealworm 1, 8000 Tiny Mealworms from Rainbow Mealworms, they are just growing.
8.) Yellow Mealworm 2, these were the original 5000 Tiny mealworms from Rainbow Mealworms. They are getting big and just eating away.
9.) Yellow Mealworm 3, Currently empty (I had medium mealworms in here, but I fed them off, as many were dead anyways.) Prepped for 5000 Small Mealworms coming soon.

Small Tall Drawers:
1.) Dark Nursery 1: Large Yellow Mealworms roughly 2000, moved them over here to spread them out more.
2.) Dark Nursery 2: Large Yellow Mealworms, roughly 2000.
3.) Dark Nursery 3: Large Yellow Mealworms, roughly 2000.
4.) Dark Mealworm 1: Large Yellow Mealworms, roughly 2000.
5.) Dark Mealworm 2: Currently Empty
6.) Dark Mealworm 3: Currently Empty
7.) Hybrid Nursery 1: Prepped for 2500 Medium Yellow Mealworms, coming soon.
8.) Hybrid Nursery 2: Prepped for 2500 Medium Yellow Mealworms, coming soon.
9.) Hybrid Nursery 3: Prepped for 2500 Medium Yellow Mealworms, coming soon.
10.) Hybrid Mealworm 1: Prepped for 2500 Medium Yellow Mealworms, coming soon.
11.) Hybrid Mealworm 2: Currently Empty
12.) Hybrid Mealworm 3: Prepped for 3000 Mixed Sized (Tiny, Small, Medium, & Large) Mealworms, coming soon.

Small Short Drawers: (empty except noted)
1.) Dark Mealworms 4
2.) Dark Mealworms 5
3.) Dark Mealworms 6
4.) Dark Mealworms 7
5.) Dark Mealworms 8 (250 Yellow Tiny Mealworms)
6.) Yellow Mealworms 5 (250 Smalls)
7.) Yellow Mealworms 6 (250 Large)
8.) Hybrid Mealworms 4 (250 Mediums)
9.) Hybrid Mealworms 5
10.) Hybrid Mealworms 6

Those in the short drawers are all the standard yellow mealworms. Going to use to supplement the beetles and add in new bloodlines until our farm is full self sufficient. Going to let most pupate, but will only keep the best looking beetles. We got 250 of each size, so hopefully there are 4 different groups of bloodlines. Ordered an additional 250 of each size, to just add in new bloodlines. Trying to make sure I don't run out of beetles.

03/13/2020

Mealworm Farming End of Week 3:

Beetles: Moved into Nursery 2, added a carrot to nursery 1 drawer.

Nursery 1 Drawer: Nothing of Note.

Mini Mealworms: 8000 mealworms from Rainbow Mealworms. Healthy and active.

Small Mealworms: No change.

Medium Mealworms: 7000 mealworms from Rainbow Mealworms. Rough estimate of 2000 DOA, email sent for replacement.

Large Mealworms: 10000 mealworms from Rainbow Mealworms. Alive and active and going to start slowly feeding to these chickens. They are all currently in the same drawer with extra carrots, so slightly overcrowded.

Current set up:
Large Wide Drawers:
1.) Yellow Mealworm 4, currently empty.
2.) Pupae drawer.
3.) Feeder drawer, 10000 Large Mealworms.
4.) Yellow Nursery 1 (So Far No Movement).
5.) Yellow Nursery 2 (Beetle Bin in here, currently).
6.) Yellow Nursery 3, currently empty.
7.) Yellow Mealworm 1, 8000 Tiny Mealworms.
8.) Yellow Mealworm 2, currently small mealworms.
9.) Yellow Mealworm 3, 7000 Medium Mealworms.

Small Tall Drawers: (Currently Empty)
1.) Dark Nursery 1
2.) Dark Nursery 2
3.) Dark Nursery 3
4.) Dark Mealworm 1
5.) Dark Mealworm 2
6.) Dark Mealworm 3
7.) Hybrid Nursery 1
8.) Hybrid Nursery 2
9.) Hybrid Nursery 3
10.) Hybrid Mealworm 1
11.) Hybrid Mealworm 2
12.) Hybrid Mealworm 3

Small Short Drawers: (empty except noted)
1.) Dark Mealworms 4
2.) Dark Mealworms 5
3.) Dark Mealworms 6
4.) Dark Mealworms 7
5.) Dark Mealworms 8 (250 Yellow Tiny Mealworms)
6.) Yellow Mealworms 5 (250 Smalls)
7.) Yellow Mealworms 6 (250 Large)
8.) Hybrid Mealworms 4 (250 Mediums)
9.) Hybrid Mealworms 5
10.) Hybrid Mealworms 6

Those in the short drawers are all the standard yellow mealworms. Going to use to supplement the beetles and add in new bloodlines until our farm is full self sufficient. Going to let most pupate, but will only keep the best looking beetles. We got 250 of each size, so hopefully there are 4 different groups of bloodlines.

03/07/2020

Update 3: 2300: heat pads are working and room is still open. Going to air everything out overnight (again) and turn humidifier back on tomorrow.

Update 2: 0400: humidity is finally down in the occupied drawers, however it is still high everywhere else. Leaving the room open longer tip continue to dry out. The heat pads were turned off, somehow, but now they are on and working.

Update 1: 0130: humidity is still a touch high in all of the drawers, so we still have the room open and humidifier off. Plugged in the 2 heat pads we currently need and turned them on. We will check again to see of they are working.

Mealworm Farming Day 16:

Oops... forgot to change the humidifier's settings last night, so came home to 92% humidity. Letting everything dry out, and then going to check the heat pads and see if they still work. Oops, note to self don't forget to set max humidity.

Beetles: We have somewhere around 500 now and going to keep that number for awhile.

Small Mealworms: No change.

Pupae: Pulled out all healthy looking beetles and moved them into the beetle bin. Everything else, dead beetles, unhealthy looking beetles, and all remaining pupae were fed to the chickens yesterday. Last update here.

Current set up:
Large Wide Drawers:
1.) Yellow Mealworm 4, currently empty.
2.) Pupae drawer, currently empty.
3.) Feeder drawer, currently empty.
4.) Yellow Nursery 1 (beetle bin is currently here).
5.) Yellow Nursery 2 (old beetle Bin is still here).
6.) Yellow Nursery 3, currently empty.
7.) Yellow Mealworm 1, currently empty.
8.) Yellow Mealworm 2, currently empty.
9.) Yellow Mealworm 3, currently small mealworms.

Small Tall Drawers: (Currently Empty)
1.) Dark Nursery 1
2.) Dark Nursery 2
3.) Dark Nursery 3
4.) Dark Mealworm 1
5.) Dark Mealworm 2
6.) Dark Mealworm 3
7.) Hybrid Nursery 1
8.) Hybrid Nursery 2
9.) Hybrid Nursery 3
10.) Hybrid Mealworm 1
11.) Hybrid Mealworm 2
12.) Hybrid Mealworm 3

Small Short Drawers: (currently empty)
1.) Dark Mealworms 4
2.) Dark Mealworms 5
3.) Dark Mealworms 6
4.) Dark Mealworms 7
5.) Dark Mealworms 8
6.) Yellow Mealworms 5
7.) Yellow Mealworms 6
8.) Hybrid Mealworms 4
9.) Hybrid Mealworms 5
10.) Hybrid Mealworms 6

03/05/2020

Mealworm Farming End of Week 2:

Beetles: We have added about 40 new beetles to our collection, so probably have close to 500 again. They love their carrots and they are very active.

Small Mealworms: I removed all old water sources, which should have been done a little bit ago (they were starting to mold, though it didn't spread). Added in fresh new carrots, and scooped some to the Seramas.

Pupae: We have removed several that have turned into beetles, the ones that looked healthy were moved into Yellow Nursery 1, with the rest of the beetles. The ones that were unhealthy looking or were dead, were placed in a bin with the rest of the dead beetles and will be fed off tomorrow. We also pulled out several pupae that didn't survive. We also added a carrot to the side of the drawer, so any beetles could get some fluids.

Humidity: Last Update, holding steady!

Current set up:
Large Wide Drawers:
1.) Yellow Mealworm 4, currently empty.
2.) Pupae drawer.
3.) Feeder drawer, currently empty.
4.) Yellow Nursery 1 (beetle bin is currently here).
5.) Yellow Nursery 2 (old beetle Bin is still here).
6.) Yellow Nursery 3, currently empty.
7.) Yellow Mealworm 1, currently empty.
8.) Yellow Mealworm 2, currently empty.
9.) Yellow Mealworm 3, currently small mealworms.

Small Tall Drawers: (Currently Empty)
1.) Dark Nursery 1
2.) Dark Nursery 2
3.) Dark Nursery 3
4.) Dark Mealworm 1
5.) Dark Mealworm 2
6.) Dark Mealworm 3
7.) Hybrid Nursery 1
8.) Hybrid Nursery 2
9.) Hybrid Nursery 3
10.) Hybrid Mealworm 1
11.) Hybrid Mealworm 2
12.) Hybrid Mealworm 3
(Dark mealworms are native to the US... The beetles live up to 6 months laying 700-1000 eggs per female... Hybrid mealworms are a mixed of dark and yellows. They have the growth rate of a yellow mealworm but lay as many eggs as the dark mealworm. (Rocky Mountain Mealworms))

Small Short Drawers: (currently empty)
1.) Dark Mealworms 4
2.) Dark Mealworms 5
3.) Dark Mealworms 6
4.) Dark Mealworms 7
5.) Dark Mealworms 8
6.) Yellow Mealworms 5
7.) Yellow Mealworms 6
8.) Hybrid Mealworms 4
9.) Hybrid Mealworms 5
10.) Hybrid Mealworms 6

The time it takes from eggs hatching to pupae is somewhere around 3 to 5 months for yellows and hybrids, and 5 to 7 months for darks. Rotating every 3 weeks, these drawers will allow just over 5 months for the yellows and hybrids and just under 7 months for the darks to pupate. After all drawers are filled, when it's time to rotate again, everything in the last drawer (Dark 8, Yellow 6, and Hybrid 6) will be sifted for frass, and moved into the feeder drawer. The beetles of each version will rotate between their respective Nursery Drawers. I will start sifting frass once they hit the Mealworm drawers, this should allow them enough time to grow so that they won't go through the sifter. As always, everything is subject to change 🤣.

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