MEALWORMS VS WHOLE WATERMELON

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We already have seen mealworms eating various things, like apples, oranges, cucumber, but I was curious if they could handle a whole watermelon. This wasn't an easy task, because you can't just fill up a bathtub with mealworms and drop a watermelon in it. That way the ones on the bottom would suffocate, and basically, only your top 1 inch (or so) layer would be live mealworms, the rest would be just laying on the bottom. So if I can make only a maximum 1-inch thick layer of mealworms can they possibly finish a whole watermelon, - I was wondering. Just like as with the McDonald's cup experiment, no one has ever tried to feed a whole watermelon to mealworms, so in order to find out the results, I needed to do it myself. I must say I wasn't too surprised.

Next to the mealworms vs whole watermelon time-lapse, I also added some other clips you asked for in the comments, such as mealworms eating lemon, octopus, salmon, and coconut. You didn't ask for it, but since these worms enjoy live greenery, I fed them a pea plant too.

I'm glad I can also show you the hatching process of these small creatures in macro. That part was very interesting to me.

Another small update-slash-news, I'm forced to use watermarks on my time lapses from now on. I didn't want to, because in my opinion, it takes away from the experience, but I also have to protect my time lapses from people who take it without permission and act like it was theirs.
I considered the framing of every clip, so the watermark is not obstructive, I hope you will still enjoy my videos.

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Interestingly, when the melon started to smell, the mealworms most of the mealworms tried to keep their distance from it. Who would have thought even they can be "disgusted" by rotten fruits.

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Maggots: hey owner are you gonna make a video today?
Owner: yes
Maggots: oh boy whats today's meal?
Owner: today's meal (Insert food here)

Smiley_XXV

I just realized, this dude LITERALLY has to do like 45 time lapses at the SAME time, so that when it’s done after 100-200 days, he still has videos to release consistently 😂 Mad respect

celestialknight

For some reason it didn't occur to me that mealworms also underwent metamorphosis. I just assumed they were bred to be mealworms forever.

tiffanykun

i liked when the mealworms were so grateful for the food that they built you an entire pea plant from scratch :)

BethanyMcXD

watermelon reveal at 5:04 was insane cannot imagine what it must've been like to be one of those worms

roscoe

seeing the death of a fruit is a bit melon-choly ..

aparks

this is every bit as horrifying and interesting to watch as i expected

10/10

matthewmcgilberry

It was really nice of them to rebuild the plant after they ate it.
Mad respect.

karimalaili

I love how they even eat the sticker on the lemon. They're such hungry little guys.

MissBarker

Would it be possible to film on glass or on a see through platform so we can get a bottom view of theealworms eating from the bottom?

backgroundcharacter

You should weigh the worms before and after they eat and calculate the difference in total weight including the food.

MoLassessss

The big watermelon caused some of their comrades to die. So they absolutely destroyed the slice to take revenge

talhasharif

Question: are the meal worms that you used in each separate experiment the same group or do you have differnt cultures of meal worms that are used in separate experiments?

callmespill