Hi, I've been visiting this site for awhile now but this is my first post.
Last weekend I purchased some superworms from a petshop and the guy there kept them in a refrigerator. The worms are tiny, no longer than an inch. Over the last couple of days I've found anywhere from 20-30 aliens in the container each day. From what I've read it can take five months or more for them to become large enough to pupate and most times they need to be separated. One beetle has already emerged, although it could be from the previous superworms I purchased that were bigger.
The petshop gets the worms in from Pisces which is quite a big supplier of live reptile feeders here in Australia, so mislabeling from their end might be possible. So my question is could these so called Superworms actually be mealworms? or has the petshop keeping them in the refrigerator had some effect on their growth/when they pupate?
First pic is the pupae/alien in comparison to the worms and the second pic is all of the pupae/aliens I've found.
Thanks for any help.
Last weekend I purchased some superworms from a petshop and the guy there kept them in a refrigerator. The worms are tiny, no longer than an inch. Over the last couple of days I've found anywhere from 20-30 aliens in the container each day. From what I've read it can take five months or more for them to become large enough to pupate and most times they need to be separated. One beetle has already emerged, although it could be from the previous superworms I purchased that were bigger.
The petshop gets the worms in from Pisces which is quite a big supplier of live reptile feeders here in Australia, so mislabeling from their end might be possible. So my question is could these so called Superworms actually be mealworms? or has the petshop keeping them in the refrigerator had some effect on their growth/when they pupate?
First pic is the pupae/alien in comparison to the worms and the second pic is all of the pupae/aliens I've found.
Thanks for any help.