Dried mealworms contain lots of protein, making them a healthy snack for your backyard birds.īugs & Bits: Jim's Birdacious Bugs & Bits Blend offers your birds densely-packed nutrition by combining our popular and versatile Bark Butter® Bits with dried mealworms. They can also be mixed into some seed or Bark Butter Bits as a treat for the birds. Most birds will eat them right from a dish on the ground. WBU McKinney sells live mealworms in quantities of 500, 1000, 5000.Ĭontainer Size: Approximately 500, 1000, 5000 mealworms per containerĭried Mealworms (20 oz): Dried mealworms can be offered from just about any feeder, and there are some feeders on the market especially made for feeding mealworms. Live mealworms need to be kept in the fridge which keeps them cool and in their larval form. They can be offered in a wide variety of dishes and feeders. Your backyard birds will gobble these insects up. Live Mealworms: Live mealworms are a wonderful treat for your backyard birds. Mealworms attract a host of birds including: robins, bluebirds, blue jays, sparrows, finches, cardinals, woodpeckers, nuthatches, titmice, wrens, chickadees, warblers and even Purple Martins. Most of the birds we feed in our backyard eat insects as a large part of their diet, feeding mealworms will please these insect eating birds. Mealworms can be fed both alive or dried, although many birds prefer the live mealworms as they typically eat live insects in nature. Mealworms are a great way to attract birds that don’t ordinarily come to seed feeders. Make sure the birds can access the feeder but that the worms can’t crawl out! Some Wild Birds Unlimited feeders to consider are the WBU EcoClean® Dinner Bell Feeder and mealworm feeders. You can keep mealworms for several weeks and they will maintain their dormant state.īirds typically look for food around the same time each day, so you can place worms in a feeder or tray at the same time the birds regularly visit. To maintain the larvae in a state of dormancy, they must be refrigerated at 39° to 50☏ (lower temperatures can kill the larvae). The larvae stage of the beetle typically lasts for 10 weeks. Mealworms are the larvae of the beetle Tenebrio molitor. Mealworms are high in protein and attractive to a wide variety of birds. Plus, you’ll enjoy watching birds such as chickadees, bluebirds, wrens, towhees, woodpeckers, robins, catbirds, nuthatches, thrashers and others devour these mouthwatering morsels! A Red-breasted Nuthatch was seen taking mealworms from a feeder, and catching them at a rate of three per minute. Many birds eat insects naturally, so feeding mealworms to the birds is a natural thing to do.
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