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Keagan

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hard mealworm thing? - 2007/07/31 15:41 Ok, so the mealies I have.. 4 turned into these hard, non-moving, half morphed worm things. I assume these are pupae..? Why are they so hard? Are they dead? One of them is white and is moving like NUTS.. whats going on here

She is dying for a crunchy treat. Yahoo ID: relativelyaddictive

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Keagan

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Re:hard mealworm thing? - 2007/07/31 15:45 Hopefully..this shows up

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CThogs

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Re:hard mealworm thing? - 2007/07/31 16:20 Love the picture

If you don't keep your mealworms in the refrigerator, they will start to turn into pupa and then beetles, which it sounds like yours are doing. The pupa that are alive will thrash their tails around and are ok to feed your hedgie.

The ones that are hard and not moving are probably dead or close to it and should be thrown out

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clutterbuster

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Re:hard mealworm thing? - 2007/07/31 19:49 dead mealies also tend to be discolored and dark, easy to pick out. I flush them down the toilet just in case they are not dead so they don't crawl out my garbage pail. I've given P-k partially formed pupae, mmmm mmmm good.

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Keagan

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Re:hard mealworm thing? - 2007/07/31 21:29 Well...I think they may in the middle of morphing.. i dunno. Im going to separate them and see whats up. Yahoo ID: relativelyaddictive

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HamorHollow

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Re:hard mealworm thing? - 2007/07/31 21:42 Keagan wrote:
Why are they so hard?

So they stay crunchy in milk.

Are they dead?

Probabally not

One of them is white and is moving like NUTS.. whats going on here

She is dying for a crunchy treat.

He's beat boxing, listen closely.

Seriously though, think of it like a cocoon stage.

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baaaad_kitty

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Re:hard mealworm thing? - 2008/02/06 11:13 oh yes, pupae! i separate all the pupae in my meal worm mini aquarium. then i also separate the beetles. haven't tried giving penny any of those though..

a thought:
don't they just look like aliens??? Katherine Y
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HamorHollow

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Re:hard mealworm thing? - 2008/02/06 17:31 Thanks for pulling this up. Goodness I'm funny sometimes. I guess it all depends on which one of my personalities is being dominate at the time.

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