| Tenebrio molitor, or yellow mealworm beetle, is a cosmopolitan pest of stored grains that can be easily reared in the laboratory. |
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| The darkling beetle or lesser mealworm, Alphitobius diaperinus, is rapidly becoming more of a nuisance in the poultry operation. |
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| Remnants of mealworm peeped out from where I'd bitten to remind me of what I'd just eaten. |
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| The mealworm is offered as feed to captive arthropods like bird spiders, scorpions and praying mantises. |
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| In our farms, the mealworm is bred on a mixture of wheat, wheat bran and vegetables without any added growth promoters or chemicals. |
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| During early research, they used cadavers of Tenebrio molitor, commonly known as the yellow mealworm, and Galleria mellonella, or greater wax moth. |
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| Stefan added that it will be the food of the future but it won't be called mealworm it will be called an Eco-burger or Save the Planet nuggets. |
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| Additional ghoulish goodies sure to get a scream are wax moth trail mix, popcorn insect crunch, and mealworm spice cake. |
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| As a titbit every now and then you could also consider giving a mealworm. |
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| As he swallows the mealworm another robin lands on top of the bird table. |
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| For my main meal, chef Andy Holcroft joined me for his personal recommendation: a cricket, locust, mealworm and grasshopper burger with polenta chips, side salad and grasshopper garnish. |
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| A bird perching on the rim would peer down inside the pipe at a real mealworm lying on a clear window with a view of the computer screen below. |
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| Very popular he was too, particularly as the holidaying character arrived bearing gifts of the mealworm variety. |
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| But given their reputations for relentless cost cutting, it's only a matter of time before they discover the profit-boosting efficacies of grub nuggets and mealworm burgers. |
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| They are both Coleopterans, one is a Christmas beetle and one is a Mealworm beetle. |
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