What a crazy week it has been. First I would like to say Happy Easter, Merry Earth Day, and Happy Ganga Day to all! Crazy stuff went down this week...
On 4-20 my mealworms were knocked over in the fridge. I found them after the night of festivating amongst a few containers of leftovers....it was not a fun mess to clean up. They were at the bottom of the fridge (thank GOODNESS) or else all of our other yummy food would have been eaten by the mealies. I was able to salvage most of them and decided to no longer keep them in the fridge, but instead in a terrarium! So with my imagination and various green inspirations, I created 2 terrariums. One is out of a Motts applesauce box, and the other is made of a clear mixed salad container. Now my insects can roam around in dirt like they like and that makes me happy.
I had a crazy thought while making my terrariums: what if the food that I feed the insects affects their flavor in any way? So with this thought, I created a control set of mealworms that eat oats and lettuces (a regular meal worm diet), and the other set feeds on raisins, berries, walnuts and honey bunches of oats. I'm gonna let them feed for about a month and record any results I get. Hopefully my raisin and berry fed worms will be sweeter and more succulent :)
I made mealworm macoroni last night. I'll post a recipe and other fun things on another day...gotta go to work!
Peace and Love!
-Heather
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