As an addition, yes. As only food - no. Too much protein. Mix with some oat meal and maybe a slice of carrot if you want to go all out (I do. That's exactly what I feed.)
exactly what i do, too...oats as sub and chunks of carrot or apple.
Is there any good way to prevent them? I’m a bit paranoid that I’ll have some since I set some out mealworms in a container with Cheerios and fish food
Based on my questions to @boina previously I've started rinsing off my superworms prior to feeding to eradicate grain mites before putting in an enclosure. Haven't done it with my mealies though, no evidence that I've seen any in my mealies....likely because they are stored in the 'fridge (i.e. they don't work their way in there in the first place, as opposed to my supers which are kept on a cool basement floor and the grain mites work their way in there).
Well, don't everdo it with the veggies. The only time I had grain mites in my mealworms was when I threw in too many veggies. Mites do need at least some moisture after all. I don't refrigerate my mealies, I just keep them in a tub of oat meal and throw in a piece of apple, carrot, broccoli stem, or whatever I have around once a week and I haven't had problems with mites.
Got it, would it be okay to take them out a few hours before feeding so they can eat as much of the Cheerio/oat/fish flake/apple before feeding? I was thinking about giving them a thin slice of apple and then taking it out before I put it back in the fridge
My preference would be to give them at least a day of feeding before feeding.
Got it, I’ll just put out however many I need into another container and then feed those off. Thanks for the responses!
