That one last tub might not have quite been my last. I am out of full grown worms store worms, and my first batch of babies aren't QUITE big enough. I think i need about another week. I may buy a few more worms next time i'm in town. I think i should be set after that, but I may be wrong. We'll see soon I guess.
I found a great trick the other day. I now keep a small piece of egg flat in with my pupae. When they morph to beetles MOST of the beetles will climb up on the flat, and then you just hold it about the beetle tub and give it a few good whacks, and the sorting is MUCH easier.
Also, I had a tub of ONLY beetles from the giant worms for a while. The beetles all died very quickly, but I kept the substrate for a couple weeks, and I never saw any larva in it. I had larva in "younger" substrate from the main beetle tub during that time, so it was plenty of time for them to hatch. So in my experience the giant beetles are sterile, but they may have just not lived long enough to breed . . . not sure which. Either way I had a batch of them and they never produced any young.
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