Tuesday, October 14, 2008

An Amateur's Perception of the Mealworm and Big Black Beatle's Life Cycle

Today before writing Jackie was looking at the meal worms and beetles, and she noticed that there were new baby meal worms, so everyone went to go check it out, and then we noticed that all the beetles were dead. They were all just laying upside down on top of the brown paper towel that we put in the jar, and it looked like there weren't that many left. There were a lot of beetle parts in the jar though, so I'm guessing that as they were dying off, the beetles were eating each other, and as more and more died they were all getting weaker and weaker, until when the last few were left, they were too exhausted to rip each other apart after death, and so they all just died in their own little corners or areas of the jar. And so the beetles all died, leaving the meal worms to fend for themselves and learn how to kill each other all on their own after they mature. Bugs are weird. I'm glad humans aren't cannibals :).

2 comments:

Erin said...

I hope that is happening. I feel pretty silly that all the beetles are dead. I didn't see the new meal worms. Let's hope they replenish the population. I'm pretty worried that all the beetles are dying.

Nicole said...

EEEEEE.. i hope they all wont die. i think they are cool in some sort of way

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