Please note that during particularly busy periods, it may take a little longer to receive your delivery and our carrier may attempt to deliver to you on a Saturday. Scottish Highlands & Scottish Isles: +7 days.The following areas are subject to extended lead times: Unfortunately at this time we cannot take orders for delivery to British Forces Post Offices (BFPO), Northern Ireland, Freight Forwarders, international addresses or The Channel Islands (GY, JE).

We aim to deliver items that are currently in stock in 3 to 5 working days (excluding Bank Holidays) after the date the order is placed. Your order will be held in store for 7 days. When your order arrives in your chosen store, we will e-mail you to advise that your order is ready for collection. If you choose to have your order delivered to your local store, it is completely free and will be delivered within 5 working days (excluding Bank Holidays). Any dead or discoloured ones must not be used as they can cause problems such as salmonella poisoning.Robert Dyas offers a FREE Click and Collect service to Robert Dyas stores. It is very important that any mealworms fed to birds are fresh. If you want to start new colonies, prepare another tin and transfer some bits of dry bread (these will carry beetle eggs) from the flourishing colony.Replace the bread, potato and cabbage as necessary. The beetles will lay eggs which hatch into mealworms and so on.After a few weeks the mealworms will turn into creamy pupae, then into little black beetles. Introduce two or three hundred mealworms into the prepared tin.Keep the tin at room temperature, not in hot sun. You can put a raw cabbage leaf on top if you like.

Put a slice or two of bread and raw potato, followed by another two layers of sacking/bran/bread/potato, like a three-decker sandwich.

Punch small holes in the lid for ventilation, place a layer of old hessian sacking in the bottom and sprinkle fairly thickly with bran.

It can become quite expensive to constantly buy mealworms, so you might want to grow your own.įor a constant supply of mealworms, prepare a large circular biscuit tin as follows:

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