Darkling Beetles: Separating Beetles from Substrate & eggs

The process I go through weekly to separate my beetles from the substrate.

[Rachel-khgh]

Thanks so much for your video! I’m just starting a darkling colony and unlike other videos, your is simple and to the point!! I greatly appreciate it!😊

[myobs]

HI, I have a problem with the beetles eating their eggs and young in a ferocious manner, turning the substrate over to get to them!
The beetles are 2/3 weeks old and have been mating for 1/2 weeks.
I have managed to recover several pieces of apple and kiwi which have their eggs and young on them and have put them into a separate container to protect them.
I was hoping to leave the beetles mating and laying eggs in their respective containers for a couple of weeks before taking them out, as you are doing.
They have plenty of food to eat but it's not stopping them eating their young!
Do you have any suggestions please?

[lindabirr]

How long do you wait between separating the beetles from eggs. And thank you for this making video!!

[Tiny_nture]

Thanks for this information. Extremely helpful. Do you put carrot peels into the nursery of baby worms even before you can see any of them?

[sarashuman]

Question, why use the super fine seive if you dump it back in with everything else? Just curious, I don't think we have the super fine one, and we're getting ready to sift for our first time today!

[jadepayne]

One tip for dark limb beetles don’t make large air holes! They escape I have now found 2 loose ones 😳

[AxelFoley-sbre]

I have a question. What if I just want to start a colony without feeding purposes? Will they keep breeding until it’s no more room? Or do they balance themselves out?

[amandam]

I know this is sort of old and you might not see it. I hope so though. My daughter has reptiles so I am trying to help her raise some mealworms. we have beetles now, fresh. only a few are black. They're in a separate bin. They have oats, carrot, a moist small paper towel, and a thin apple slice. my beetles don't move much. they act like they're slowly dying. yours seem to move quite a bit. I can't help but wonder if I have done something wrong. I'd hate to have gone through all this trouble and spent the money for the stuff, just to have the beetles die. the pupa move more than my beetles. something has to be wrong. thanks for any tips

edited to add. I wonder if it is my oats? They're plain oats but they seem to have a lot of powdery stuff.

edited again to add: I just used the oats I had in the cabinet. my dad gave them to me, not in the box. just a gigantic bag. I didn't see a point in buying more when I had the jumbo bag. he told me they are quick cook oats. is that a bad thing?

[Victoria]

Google was telling me mealworm beetles fly! I take it that’s not the case from watching your video?!

[kaylalala]

Hello! New to mealworm raising (small scale/personal use) and one thing I'm wondering is what you do with all of the beetles. I understand they can live for quite awhile and if all are reproducing you would have quite alot of beetles every couple months. Do you have them live out their life cycle naturally or have another plan in place for too many beetles? Thank you!

[raymesias]

How often should you remove the beetles from substrate? Weekly?

[Tiny_nture]

So, now we have nurseries with teenie, tiny mealworms in them. Do the carrots have to be carrot peels in the nurseries or can it be long slices of carrot which would be thicker? If just carrot peels, how do you keep the substrate from going moldy? I'm finding the wheat bran going moldy from the carrot peels.

[christinehaslam]

Do you ever have mealworms hatch in the 5gallon bucket?
Thanks for the video...

[saireddy]

1 black bettle lay how many Eggs ? How long those eggs are hatching?

[Melaniesmugz]

Does it matter how many beetles you put in one bin?

[ashleyfuller]

Where did you get your sifters from any links to the places of possible

[melanierose]

My darkling beetles appear to be eating eggs as soon as they lay them. They have plenty of food and moisture (wheat bran substrate, carrots, potatoes, Romain lettuce). Why are they doing this? I've sifted into two baby bins starting a month ago. No baby larva.

[patricedurham]

How long after they mature into beetles do they lay eggs?

[dream]

Putting the Beetles back in the tote with the eggs, don't the beetles eat them when they hatch? I just move my beetles to a new bin with new egg carton since they will lay eggs on them also, i'll give it about a month and then use the egg carton's again.

[nickford]

Y not just make the new tray the beetle tray and the egg covered one the mealworm bin? Keeps the eggs together