Saturday, February 12, 2011

Week two with the meal worms wasn't that exciting. For the first couple of days I had them, they didn't come to the surface of the oats very often, and didn't seem very active. Watching closely, though, I could see the oats moving which told me there was some activity going on beneath. Occasionally I would see individual worms out snacking on the potatoes. The worms have a few legs at the front half of their bodies. They use their legs to help them burrow their heads into the potato. I think the potato is their source of food as well as water. The potatoes dried up by the end of three days, so I changed it with a fresh one. When I put in new potatoes, the worm activity seemed to increase. The color of the worms has stayed the same, and I have seen the skins of a few dead worms near the surface of the oats. The color of the dead worms is a darker color
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Worm burrowing in potato