Transcript Mealworms - broz09

Mealworms
By: Jackson, Sloan, Ayan, Christan
Habitat
• Mealworms love to live under rocks or logs
where it is nice and warm.
• The places that mealworms live in would be
misty, damp and the soil would be rich.
• Another place you might find a mealworm
could be a barn where there is long grass and
dirt
• These are the things a mealworm needs in
his/her home.
Life Cycle
• First a dark wing starts of as a egg then
becomes a larval once it has finished that
stage it will become a pupa finally it is a dark
wing beetle.
• During the entire life cycle of a Dark Wing
beetle is about a year, but it depends on how
fast the insect ate as a mealworm.
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Body
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A mealworm body has three body parts.
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They can grow to 35 mm. long. mealworm have six legs like most
They are a head, thoarx, and a abdomen. When they’re in a egg the
are about 2 mm. long and 9 mm.
insects and six jointed legs, A hard exo-skeleton,two antennaes,
compound eyes, and a body divided into three parts.
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It would be very hard to weigh a mealworm but I know it would
weigh less than a ounce!
Life Cycle 2
• If the mealworm ate fast then he or she would
be in the larva stage for about two weeks.
• Once in the pupa stage the mealworm could
stay like that for up to six weeks.
• Finally when all the waiting is done you have a
dark Wing beetle,
• The beetle will stay like that until the year is
up or until he is smashed by a child.
Behaviors
1.Some Darkling beetles eat other insects and some don't.
2. Some Darkling beetles live up to months or years. Darkling
beetles have four wings .
3.they
come in many different colors and
shapes.
4.Frogs are predators that eat insects. some
beetles descise themselves of being eaten.
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Habitat= Sloan L. And Chris S.
Life Cycle= Jackson B.
Behaviors= Ayan M.
Body= Jackson B. and Sloan L.
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