Mealworms and Waxworms

Mealworms and Wax Worms

The association of the culture of mealworms and wax worms to fish often leads to questions of aquaculture educators. This page links to many good sites with information on the biology and culture of mealworms and wax worms.

Yellow and Dark Mealworms (Tenebrio molitor) and *(T. obscurus)*
Virginia Cooperative Extension http://www.ext.vt.edu/departments/entomology/factsheets/mealworm.html
Short life history on the yellow mealworm http://ipmworld.umn.edu/chapters/krischik/ch13f16.htm	Good picture and little bit of information http://entweb.clemson.edu/cuentres/cesheets/grain/ce93.htm
How to culture meal worms: http://www.ndsu.nodak.edu/instruct/devold/twrid/html/cmeal.htm	Very good scanning electron micrograph of mealworms http://www.zoo.utoronto.ca/zooweb/pbowser/tenebrio.htm
Mealworms in poultry http://www.biohaven.com/mealpo.htm	Drugstore beetles, flour beetle (yellow mealworms) http://www.ungeziefer.de/en/brotkaefer-e.html
University of Maine Fact Sheet http://pmo.umext.maine.edu/factsht/mealwm94.htm	Iowa Insect Notes, Iowa State University http://www.ipm.iastate.edu/ipm/iiin/mealworm.html
Michigan State Extension http://www.msue.msu.edu/msue/imp/mod02/01500532.html	Ohio State Fact Sheet on Rearing Earthworms http://www.ag.ohio-state.edu/~ohioline/hyg-fact/2000/2135.html
University of Kentucky: Raising Mealworms http://www.uky.edu/Agriculture/Entomology/entfacts/misc/ef002.htm	Mealworm Culture http://www.dbs.nus.edu.sg/fish/
Wax Worms *(Galleria mellonella)*
Commercial site with information and price list http://www.nyworms.com/waxworms.htm	Commercial site with some information http://www.rainbowmealworms.com/waxworms.htm
Keeping and Breeding Wax Worms http://www.icomm.ca/dragon/waxworms.htm	Ohio State University Fact Sheet http://www.ag.ohio-state.edu/~ohioline/hyg-fact/2000/2131.html
Michigan State University Extension: Rearing Wax Worms http://www.msue.msu.edu/msue/imp/modc1/06289607.html	University of Florida Wax Moth control http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/scripts/htmlgen.exe?DOCUMENT_AA141
Rearing Wax Worms University of KY http://www.uky.edu/Agriculture/Entomology/entfacts/misc/ef011.htm