So live mealworms are, in effect, a portion of natural food.Ĭan nestlings (baby birds) eat mealworms? And even in rural areas, invertebrate numbers have also drastically decreased due to factors such as pesticides, pollution and climate change. Some of the reasons are obvious such as manicured lawns and areas covered in paving, but it’s also to do with the fact that urban areas are generally and increasingly far less suitable for most invertebrate species. Gardens aren’t, typically, great places for birds to find an abundance of natural food. Why are live mealworms so good for garden birds? Many birds are attracted to live mealworms, particularly the soft-billed bird species and include Dried mealworms aren't as beneficial to birds as live mealworms but are ok to feed and are convenient, easy to store and easy to feed. Live mealworms are obviously the living form, while dried mealworms are simply mealworms that have been dried-out via heating or freeze-drying. You can safely feed both dried and live mealworms to birds. So mealworms aren’t worms at all, but a larva which, if left to develop, would eventually become a beetle (having turned from egg to larva to pupa first). Mealworms are the larvae form, or second stage of life, of the beetle, Tenebrio molitor, which is a species of darkling beetle. Feeding live mealworms to the birds in your garden is one of the most important things you can do to help their breeding success, and therefore help reverse the decline in the numbers of many of our once-common species of songbirds.įor those of you that haven’t fed live mealworms before and don’t know too much about them, or you have but want to learn more, then here’s a detailed look at what’s involved and what the benefits are.
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