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Index of Subjects Are the mealworms live (presumably)? If so, how do you prevent them from freezing together and to the container into a hard solid mass, within a couple of minutes at these temperatures? If alternatively they are dead/individually frozen already, I can see how they would stay as separate objects, but I thought that they'd then be less attractive to birds if immobile and not wriggling. Or are your birds so well experienced that they are waiting for you to put out the larvae so they pounce immediately? I periodically breed fly larvae on liver (of big blowflies, Calliphora) and this afternoon I had raised far too many, so put half of them out in an open container. These froze almost immediately as expected, as above -- I had no expectant birds waiting, though. So it would be nice to know how you or others deliver these mealworms, dead or alive? And who sells them, or do you raise them yourself and not let them go through all the way to adult beetles, using cold-arrest? I don't know much about rearing them. Steve (Halifax) ________________________________________ From: naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca [naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca] on behalf of Susann Myers [myerss@eastlink.ca] Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2015 8:02 PM To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca; Ns-Rba@Yahoogroups.Com Subject: [NatureNS] Oriole Flock, Halifax The number of Baltimore Orioles tending my feeders in Halifax grew from 7 to 9 in mid-December. All 9 are still doing well, eating large amounts of grape jelly, peanut butter "suet" and mealworms. There are another 2 orioles tending feeders (including Patricia Chalmers') on Elm Street, about 4 blocks from mine. Susann Myers
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