They are superworms like a big mealworm and in the same family, basically the grub form of a darkling beetle. I want to establish a colony for my chickens so they can have live wormies as a treat.
Here is my worms that are super i fed them a some carrots the other day
Here is two pupae the one on the left will be a beetle any day now and the one of the right needs more time. You can tell with how the legs darken
And this is a beetle, they are still hardening up, when thats done with will be a nice black color
Here is what they look like when they are fresh out of the pupae ( this is the same beetle as above)
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MAN i havent even really posted about Operation: You Wouldn't Download A Superworm
images of irl worms, pupae (i.e. weird transparent bug parts), and beetles below the cut!!!
so if you keep herps you probably know of superworms:
theyre a common feeder insect, a larger cousin to mealworms. operative word insect, because they aren't worms as in annelids--they're actually larvae of the zophobas morio beetle! they usually don't pupate left in the same container together because the other larvae will just eat a largely motionless pupa, but if you separate them out, they metamorphose!
that's my goal: putting them into little individual worm jail cells (using a jewellery box) and raising them into adult beetles, so i can breed my own worms instead of always buying them from pet supply shops. hence Operation: You Wouldn't Download A Superworm. i'm taking some worms i purchased fair and square and starting an illicit beetle breeding ring.
this was... a more difficult task than i expected. i did a LOT of tinkering with the heat and humidity levels, killed off a TON of worms and even some pupae! here's what those look like btw:
i redlined it so that you can see the structures of the folded-up legs, the wings/elytra (in green), the antennae, and the eyes (plus the mouthparts and anime blush).
my first few beetles came out malformed. the original beetle looked like this:
and beetle: the sequel immediately after looked the same. i got the heat right in time for beetle: the threequel, but the humidity was insufficient so her wings didn't form properly:
all three perished shortly after reaching adulthood. we honor their sacrifice in the name of clueless, fumbling science.
fortunately the era of success was immediately to follow, and i now have five (5!!!) healthy, thriving beetles!
i'm being a little cheeky showing all 5 because god knows i can't tell them apart once they darken. the pale coloration is from when they're freshly done cooking, and then they turn black over the course of a few days. their names are beetle: the squeakquel, beetle: electric boogaloo, beetle: senior year, jenah 2, and marshmallow (soon to be burnt to black).
the useful thing about these pics though is that you sex them by looking at their mouthparts. i have 4 females and 1 male, the only male being the eldest (beetle: the squeakquel). you can see the concave space above his mouthparts here:
contrast to the female bugs pictured, who don't have that little space.
Packing material, disposable cutlery, CD cases: Polystyrene is among the most common forms of plastic, but recycling it isn't easy and the v
One way to put the findings to use would be to provide superworms with food waste or agricultural bioproducts to consume alongside polystyrene.
"This could be a way to improve the health of the worms and to deal with the large amount of food waste in Western countries," said Rinke.
But while breeding more worms for this purpose is possible, he envisages another route: creating recycling plants that mimic what the larvae do, which is to first shred the plastic in their mouths then digest it through bacterial enzymes.
"Ultimately, we want to take the superworms out of the equation," he said, and he now plans more research aimed at finding the most efficient enzymes, then enhancing them further through enzyme engineering.
The breakdown products from that reaction could then be fed to other microbes to create high-value compounds, such as bioplastics, in what he hopes would become an economically viable "upcycling" approach.
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