Mealworms

By: Jackson, Sloan, Ayan, Christan

Habitat

• Mealworms love to live under rocks or logs where it is nice and warm.

• The places that mealworms live in would be misty, damp and the soil would be rich.

• Another place you might find a mealworm could be a barn where there is long grass and dirt

• These are the things a mealworm needs in his/her home.

Life Cycle• First a dark wing starts of as a egg then

becomes a larval once it has finished that stage it will become a pupa finally it is a dark wing beetle.

• During the entire life cycle of a Dark Wing beetle is about a year, but it depends on how fast the insect ate as a mealworm.

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Body

• A mealworm body has three body parts.

• They are a head, thoarx, and a abdomen. When they’re in a egg the are about 2

mm. long and 9 mm.

• They can grow to 35 mm. long. mealworm have six legs like most insects and six

jointed legs, A hard exo-skeleton,two antennaes, compound eyes, and a body

divided into three parts.

• It would be very hard to weigh a mealworm but I know it would weigh less than

a ounce!

Life Cycle 2

• If the mealworm ate fast then he or she would be in the larva stage for about two weeks.

• Once in the pupa stage the mealworm could stay like that for up to six weeks.

• Finally when all the waiting is done you have a dark Wing beetle,

• The beetle will stay like that until the year is up or until he is smashed by a child.

Behaviors1.Some Darkling beetles eat other insects and some don't.

2. Some Darkling beetles live up to months or years. Darkling beetles have

four wings .

3.they come in many different colors and shapes. 4.Frogs are predators that eat insects. some beetles descise themselves of being eaten.

: ) Thanks for Watching! ( : Habitat= Sloan L. And Chris S.

Life Cycle= Jackson B.

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