I don't know if I just have the worlds dumbest beetles, or if something's up, or what. My beetles, only a few at this point in time, are housed on Flukers High-Calcium Cricket Diet (plans to use a cereal blend later), and so far, as they are only a day old and less, have eaten some lettuce (some kind of green frilly stuff out of a bag of spring mix). My first batch found last night were all upside down.
As I was transferring them from the pupae tub to the beetle tub, they'd flip over when they hit a "bump" and I'd have to juggle rightening the flipped over ones with picking out the ones from the pupae tub. Annoying, really... When I pulled the tubs out tonight to move over pupae from the worms, and beetles from the pupae, the last nights beetles were again flipped over, and the newly molted ones were at least upright, but I still had to periodically flip over beetles as I sorted through the worm tub.
So, is my first batch just extremely stupid, or is that normal? Maybe it's a weather thing, or nutrional? The worms eat a random mix of romaine, what ever is in the spring mix, potatoes, squash and zucchini.
As I was transferring them from the pupae tub to the beetle tub, they'd flip over when they hit a "bump" and I'd have to juggle rightening the flipped over ones with picking out the ones from the pupae tub. Annoying, really... When I pulled the tubs out tonight to move over pupae from the worms, and beetles from the pupae, the last nights beetles were again flipped over, and the newly molted ones were at least upright, but I still had to periodically flip over beetles as I sorted through the worm tub.
So, is my first batch just extremely stupid, or is that normal? Maybe it's a weather thing, or nutrional? The worms eat a random mix of romaine, what ever is in the spring mix, potatoes, squash and zucchini.
