Mealworm

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Mealworm

• By
• Evelyn

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Environment

• Mealworms are most often found in barns, grain
  storage, and food.

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Food

• The beetle and the mealworm eat leaves, sticks,
  grasses, dead insects, feces, and stored grains.

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Predators

• Many predators eat mealworms including rodents,
  lizards, beetles, spiders, and birds.

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Interesting Facts

• The mealworm is not a worm, it is a larva.
• A female beetle lays eggs about the size of the
  period at the end of this sentence.
• Mealworms are really
• Darkling beetles.