Lifecycle Of The Mealworm Beetle
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Lifecycle Of The Mealworm Beetle
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yellow mealworm beetle. Although the mealworm looks a bit like a worm, it has six small, jointed legs and an exoskeleton, so it is an insect. Both the larva and the beetle are nocturnal, they don’t like to be in the light.
The mealworm undergoes complete metamorphosis. The female mealworm beetle lays hundreds of tiny, white, oval eggs, which hatch into tiny mealworms (the larval stage) - it takes from 4 to 19 days to hatch.
Each mealworm eats a tremendous amount and grows a lot, molting (shedding its exoskeleton) many times as it grows. When it molt, it sheds its exoskeleton.
It then enters the pupal stage (this stage lasts about 2-3 weeks). The pupa does not eat and seems inactive, but it is transforming itself into an adult.
After that, a white adult mealworm beetle emerges from the pupa -- it soon turns brown and then almost black. The adult lives for a few months. The entire life cycle takes about a year.
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