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Tribolium confusum (confused flour beetles)
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<blockquote data-quote="octanejunkie" data-source="post: 207747" data-attributes="member: 3872"><p>Picked up a culture from [USER=37828]@proarth614[/USER] this week and will use the larvae and pupae to feed smaller slings.</p><p></p><p>Maintaining the cultures takes little effort, separating the beetles, larvae and pupae from The medium takes a little more effort, but actually more thought than effort.</p><p></p><p>Here's a pretty straightforward video online</p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]CUY2jdDyT1c[/MEDIA]</p><p></p><p>You can easily sift the media with a tea strainer and then I let the beetles just crawl back into the culture once sifted from the flour.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]62957[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>You can use rice flour wheat flour almost any commercial flour, favoring organic, and add beneficial yeast and nutrients like spirulina to gutload the larvae.</p><p></p><p>Using calendar reminders and post-it notes I scheduled the replacement of the media every 3 months, which coincides with how often I bake brownies, so look out for those in the future, too.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="octanejunkie, post: 207747, member: 3872"] Picked up a culture from [USER=37828]@proarth614[/USER] this week and will use the larvae and pupae to feed smaller slings. Maintaining the cultures takes little effort, separating the beetles, larvae and pupae from The medium takes a little more effort, but actually more thought than effort. Here's a pretty straightforward video online [MEDIA=youtube]CUY2jdDyT1c[/MEDIA] You can easily sift the media with a tea strainer and then I let the beetles just crawl back into the culture once sifted from the flour. [ATTACH type="full"]62957[/ATTACH] You can use rice flour wheat flour almost any commercial flour, favoring organic, and add beneficial yeast and nutrients like spirulina to gutload the larvae. Using calendar reminders and post-it notes I scheduled the replacement of the media every 3 months, which coincides with how often I bake brownies, so look out for those in the future, too. [/QUOTE]
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