How to Kill your whole mealworm colony (without really trying)

[acpart]

It's easy. Just put the mealworm enclosure near the forced hot air heat vent and they'll all be dead in a day. I moved things around to make room for my new fire skink cage and obviously just wasn't thinking. Luckily I have less need for mealworms because it's not baby season and the smaller ones were kept somewhere else . . .

Aliza

 

[roger]

It's easy. Just put the mealworm enclosure near the forced hot air heat vent and they'll all be dead in a day. I moved things around to make room for my new fire skink cage and obviously just wasn't thinking. Luckily I have less need for mealworms because it's not baby season and the smaller ones were kept somewhere else . . .

Aliza

Aliza- Great post !!!! Dont feel bad last month I kicked over a 1000 lot of crickets.I keep my leos in my heated garage.you shouldve seen me going berserk trying to corral all of them.Although i got most of them i know alot escaped me.I knew I didnt get all of them when my wife screamed"THERE ARE STINKING CRICKETS IN MY BASEMENT" Uggh what are u gonna do

 

[facebooker]

Aliza- Great post !!!! Dont feel bad last month I kicked over a 1000 lot of crickets.I keep my leos in my heated garage.you shouldve seen me going berserk trying to corral all of them.Although i got most of them i know alot escaped me.I knew I didnt get all of them when my wife screamed"THERE ARE STINKING CRICKETS IN MY BASEMENT" Uggh what are u gonna do

:main_laugh: I killed my cricket colony (though not as big as yours) by housing them temporarily in a box without ventilation while I was cleaning up the cricket tank, forgot bout them and voila 2 days later :main_lipsrsealed:

 

[ajveachster]

I think we've all done something of the sort a time or too. I killed off some mealworms by baking them in my car in the middle of summer. Got the box from the mailroom on my way to run an errand. The errand ended up taking way longer than expected, and by the time I got back to my car the box was hot, and the mealworms were toast.

 

[acpart]

Nice to know I'm in good company. I also have very tolerant downstairs neighbors who are used to escaped crickets "singing" under their fridge. Luckily they were away a few years ago T'giving weekend when I had a massive cricket breakout and was retrieving crickets from their bathtub for days.

Aliza

 

[Joao]

Booooooooring. Whatever happened to cherrybomb massacres or water hose attacks.

 

[Insubordinate]

If you need any to start up again, I've got TONS in the pupa stage right now.
All fed organics!

 

[Desdemona]

You should have just set the Leos loose to eat the crickets

These posts make me wonder rather or not I should split my colony into two... just in case (Dubai).

When I got my first Leo I drowned a bunch of her crickets. Ooops