Live Mealworms

Standard and Mini Mealworms are the larval stage of the Tenibro Molitor beetle, commonly known as the flour beetle, as its name suggests this native creature usually lives in stored grains.
Mealworms are an excellent feed, being high in protein, for domestic chickens, aviary birds, and wild birds, they are particularly good during the winter and nesting periods.
Standard and Mini Mealworms are easy to keep being clean and odourless, they are best kept in a cool, dry garage or utility room.

We feed and water our mealworms!
Most mealworms supplied in the UK are imported and are rarely fed, many are sent out pre-tubbed on behalf of the retailer. Our Meal Worms get a feeding regime before being sold. This involves feeding the mealworms a balanced and nutritional diet, including fruit and vegetables! Not only is this beneficial to the mealworms but ensures they are in the best of nutritional condition when they are used for feeding birds.
This applies to birds whether wild or aviary.

Included in our price is enough food to keep your mealworms fit and healthy for as long as you should need, this and the mealworms are sent in a strong, ventilated plastic tub for your convenience. The food is not included in the weight of the Meal Worms.

Keeping Mealworms for longer periods.
The mealworms will arrive with enough food for at least a week and probably much longer but if you need to keep them long term then they will need extra feed and a source of moisture. The source of moisture should be added on arrival and should be a small piece of Banana skin about a couple of inches long or segment of apple or potato, this should be put into the container and the lid left off make sure anything added does not give the mealworms a "bridge" to the top edge or they will use it and be gone! This source of moisture should be removed (if there is any left) and replaced every couple of days, do not allow it to go mouldy and contaminate the dry food matter.
As the mealworms feed the original food will become very fine and sand-like it should be sieved off and replaced with new food, this can be bran, porridge oats or similar dried cereal. The container should be kept in a cool place but not a refrigerator.

Our Mealworms are available in the following sizes:

• 3 x 40gm tubs (dispatched in an outer tub).  - £5.25
• 250gm Tub. - £6.95
• 500gm Tub - £12.25
• 2 x 500gm Tubs - £22.50

Mealworm Feeder Option

This mealworm feeder, nicknamed the "Alcatraz" (once in, they can't escape!) is designed in such a way that when the mealworms are put into the pot they cannot climb up the sides and escape, it is more than a container with smooth sides it has a moulding that creates an overhanging lip that the mealworms cannot get around,

The pot is shallow enough for even the smallest of birds, ie Robins etc to be able to pick out the mealworms, being shallow with a relatively large base area, complete with drainage holes, it will not tip up when larger birds such as Blackbirds alight on the rim. See Detailed Images.

Available for only £1.50 extra with the 250gm tubs and above.