Are there things mealworms CAN'T eat?
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- This video shows you the things mealworms can eat happily, and things that are not theri favorites or they can't eat them at all.
This is a fast paced compilation, featuring a lot of mealworm time lapse footage I shot during the years.
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Based on this video, can you come up with something they probably can't eat?
@Don't Read My Profile Picture ok
Hmm a coconut shell?
I'm pretty sure they can't eat a coconut
Nokia 3310 😤😎
I bet they can't decompose it
a rock
"I took away the honey to prevent harm to the mealworms, then fed them a pack of Marlboros" lol
lol
What got me was removing the honey to prevent harm to the meal worms, immediately followed by giving them an insect-eating carnivorous plant and showing closeups of meal worms getting trapped and dying.
@@Tijopi11 It's been a while since I've seen that video, but I don't remember any of them actually dying. The ones you see get grabbed make their way out later.
Meal worms are typically bigger than venus fly trap mouths so even if they get caught they can wiggle out
Eating tobacco isn’t bad, just smoking it
"They didn't really like Surstroming"
Shows the rotted fish killing these worms.
they literally fucking died in packs LMFAO
I thought the same lol it nearly decimated them
@@ayankhaznawinasty 😂😂
It's double brined and fermented. I suspect the salt acted as a severe deterrent.
Good point with the salt, and I would also guess that this kind of ammoniac that surstroming smells like soo badly has something to do with it.😅
Mealworms seeing Swedish food: "Look, there are some lines even I don't cross."
And then they immediately gobbled up the styrofoam cube. Because apaprently actual plastic is more edible than Scandinavian "food".
As a Norwegian calling rotten fish Scandinavian food is a crime, we dont like it either
@@Nightmare_52 you and me both. we just dont like Scandinavian food.
i like it when its actual food
@@Nightmare_52He said SWEDISH food, so why you felt offended, Norwegie? You self-reporting or you admitting you are just a Sweden clone? 🤭
Mealworms eating better than me ig🥲
Relatable 😂
They get to eat Styrofoam but I don't 😡
@@AlterLynx Bro in 2021 I ate plastic
With a name like Mealworm I'd hope so xD
My friend, they got gold-coated Wagyu
They be eating better than _all of us_
When he took out an A5 wagyu steak, cooked it to perfection, covered it in gold film and tossed it to the worms
... my soul died a little
AAAAAAAAAA THEY'RE EATING BETTER THAN ME
Cooked it to perfection?
Bro the side area is still uncooked and middle is barely red
@@kanwarpamnani3780 It's a steak.
@@fujiwaranonekobiodrando1257 I can see that
@@kanwarpamnani3780 Oh really? How many fingers I'm holding up🖐️
Bruh meal worms be eating golden stakes while I’m eating canned soup
That surstromming really killed them LOL
Lmaoaoao
When surstromming is more potent than plastic
salt...
Yeah I was going to say. Then right after he said he stoped the honey one to avoid harm lmaoo
Right??? I was about to say that too
2:10 bro really put edible gold on a Japanese steak just to give it to mealworms 💀💀
Guess how many steak POTL ordered for the mealworms. I rec the longer version of the vid
the steak is the expensive part, the gold leaves are cheap lol
This broke my heart.... I paid 120 for a tiny piece in a restaurant and he just feed such a big one to the worms😢
And they didn't even eat it
was worth checking to see if it would end up in their exoskeletons or something
Reincarnated As a Mealworm in Some Dude's RUclips Channel and It's Not So Bad After All.
Until you get hit with the Surströmming that is
“Would you still love me if I was a mealworm?”
Me: “No, not at all.” 😂
Can't wait for the mandatory beach and hotspring episodes
@@icedfireversion I was thinking more in terms of tentacles but OK.
"to prevent harm to the mealworms"
3:06 Half the mealworms die
SWEDISH FOOD = POISON
@@ImAmirusi don’t think they can recognize honey removed from a hive as associated with bees
Fun fact: They recently found out that wax worms can not only eat plastic, but survive on it as well, their guts convert the plastic into matter their bodies can get nutrients from.
So we should gather all plastic waste and feed them, or sprinkle the worms on plastic waste
Only to be promptly fed to someone’s leopard gecko 😂
clarification for anyone who may be unaware: wax worms and mealworms are different insects, wax worms are moths but mealworms are darkling beetles :)
@rhayembensassi2370 plastic doesn't decompose, it just breaks down into smaller bits over time
@@tashoncoleman5480unless it gets eaten by a wax worm or something. Then it degrades normally.
2:55 nah fam they straight up just gave up on living after that one 💀
*dead*
The fact that these guys eat everything from plastics to cigarettes, and only left surströmming untouched is pure comedy gold.
edit: I like how the comments here under my comment about surströmming turned into 'tomato is a fruit' , 'no. f U. tomato is vegetable' etc. I love the internet. There's always random crap to fight about, I guess 😂
I thought the same
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They DIED of it 😂😂😂😂
Even nature knows that shit isn't edible
They looked dead tho. Lmfao
They literally died eating the surströmming 😅 Swedes are something else
Was half expecting this man to just drop a dead body in there
I mean, Surstromming, the "Swedish Delicacy" is rotting / fermented fish, so ... Yea lol. They all died when trying to eat that. Idk if it's because of the rot, or the alcohol though.
Even here in Sweden, Surströmming is an acquired taste, I've had it several times and each time I almost throw up. Though last time I had it It wasn't as bad so maybe the next 2 or 3 or so times I might find it.. passable. Seeing mealworms not want to eat it doesn't surprise me at all.
It also seems the only food where they literally died
Is it salted? Might have cured the mealworms alive. 😬
@@RryhhbfrHhgdHhgd356 It is very salty
What about if you haven't eaten anything for a day or two? I always find disgusting food is usually tastier and easier to consume if I'm starving...
@@LoLaSn probably too salty which kills some of them trying to digest it, I don't think they hate the taste or smell.
Interesting compilation. The last part with plastic was the most interesting one. Never knew they could do that. Thanks for sharing and exploring!
that's exactly why they have been more and more cultivaded, they can eat the plastics, and their excrements can be later used as fertilizer, i'm not sure they can sustain on just plastic though, but they can still be useful, the only problem is that they grow into beetles that don't seem able to do the same, so they only have a few weeks to do that before they go into metamorphosis
@@San-lh8us But wouldn't that make their feces high on plastic atom. Which is harmful and poisonous if you try to fertilize the plant with it
@@dieptrieu6564 i'm not a specialist, but apparently, their digestive system on larval state can biodegrade the plastic, remember that plastic is basically a bunch of carbon, oxygen and hydrogen atoms( and a bit of other stuff sometimes), all of which are not poisonous nor harmful to plants by themselves, it's the loooong chains that they form when in plastic form, so the worms can break up the plastic in a way that it becomes biodegradable, so other living beings can also process it, that's very basically how it works, but again, i'm not a specialist, so there might be more to it
@@San-lh8us mealworms don't really help with disposing the plastic. They simply act as a shredder, cutting it and excreting it later. What remains is microplastic which doesn't go anywhere.
@@chinchepunta not so much really. Only some of it. Besides, it's very bad for their health
0:30 End of debate, you can't eat stickers on apples.
those worms ate a fucking block of styrofoam
@@fur_averyLOL
Golden
The Surströmming is the only one where all the worms around it seem to stop moving.
Did they die, or just become numb from the odor?
They look dead. I'd stay away from that
When even fucking mealworms are disgusted by surströmming 💀
@@cooliipie you're not a mealworm.
@@Teuwufel Did you really just assume his animal-type???
@@peterlustig2048yes, yes he insensitivity did. I, on the other hand, recognize ALL people I encounter that are tree sloths as tree sloths.
It looked like sustroming killed any mealworms that got within 2 inches of it 😂
I'd have been tempted to taste one of those mealworms after they'd gorged on the peppers. I just wonder if they'd be spicy, or if they metabolically broke the spiciness down into some other element (glucose, starch, or whatever)...? 🤔
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If you take protein then you have :)
@@awesomepandaxxa6264are you sure? I dont think insects are used on making of protein powder? Sure there is insect powder but i dont think they are even remotely popular
If soon, better have a glass of milk ready. If 2 days, little or no heat.
What you were talking about is known as loading. Essentially, you load up an insect with nutrients and other things, and then you feed it to like a spider or something so they can get their nutrients. It is noted that you should avoid spicy foods, because it could harm the spider. So effectively, yes, you could.
These mealworms surely have a good life 😂
“Dude! The cops are coming where do we hide the body?”
“ *BRING OUT THE MEALWORMS.* “
(This is a joke btw)
😂😂
Oh my gosh that's actually genius😭
@@Visperrapa that'd take more than a month for the mealworms to finish.
@@101k_with_no_video I mean, well atleast we'll get a decoy skeleton by the time halloween comes🥲
Nah, you'd want pigs for that sort of thing. A half-dozen hungry pigs can eat something like 300lbs of meat in under 15 minutes.
Mealworms aren't called by that because they are a good food source for your pet lizard or something. They are called mealworms because they will make a meal out of everything they can eat, and it's awesome.
In Germany we call them "Mehlwürmer" which means directly translated "Flourworm".
Pretty much the same in Danish "Melorm"@@CrniWuk
The way you describe them is like a favourite pet. Like you know them and deeply care for them.
The fact they are basically his pet weirds me out. I wonder what this guy does on his free time
Maybe videos of worms? Nah, that would be too sci-fi.
The amount he has can open a business
Ewww
@@Roman-mr9zxthis is precisely what he does in his free time. Let a guy have a hobby
To be fair, even most humans would probably not want to eat surstromming anyway.
Wow I never thought I’d have such respect for mealworms 😯👏🏼
Good waste of a steak
Mealworms with garbage: 🤤
Mealworms with world class steak: 🤢
I know, and wagyu, like donate that money to starving people
@@1984isnotamanualWhat do you do? Do you donate? Do you hand out food? Do something before you say it.
@@Menacing311love how he didn’t even respond lul
@@inkgirl2244 fr
The worms deadass like "ayo Jared, look at this styrofoam, come give it a nibble, it straight up bussin" and Jared's like "just one sec, lemme finish eatin this cig, iss deadass culinary gold"
But then they're given surstromming and they're like "awww hell nah that shits nasty"
It's so wild how u present the food to the meal worms with garnish😂
Bro cooked a Wagyu steak then covered it in gold 😭
@@getass3290 dude my jaw dropped 😭🤣
This is EXACTLY what I was hoping for after you posted your Wagyu video and I noticed a lot of the worms dying off. Thanks for the educational video!
Why do they die off before maturing to adulthood?
@@JatPhenshllem Just not a good food for them.
@@JatPhenshllem maybe the salt concentration killed them (dehydration)
1:17 of course they are not detured by the heat, it only effects mammals. birds, fish and worms are not effected.
deterred *
also i had no clue that only mammals can taste capsaicin. I'd love to see a platypus eat a carolina reaper now.
The "burn" from hot peppers isn't actually coming from taste receptors, but from heat receptors. It's also not universal, since birds are not affected by it. So it's not surprising that mealworms would not care.
why are there heat receptors in my ass
Yep, it seems to be specifically meant for mammals.
explains why my lips would burn when i dranked hotsauce once
I like how you cut the experiments short when the food presented danger to the mealworms, such as with the rotting melon or the honey. While animals like mealworms are often thought of as "expendable" they are still living creatures that should be treated ethically if they aren't causing harm.
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Except if it were mosquitos
@@clementdato6328 Note the "not causing harm" part.
@@thenerdbeast7375
Mosquitoes not only cause harm, they ARE harm. Their very existence is a blight upon this world.
lool the guy said i had to cut the experiment short to insure no harm to the meal worms, then in the very next scene theres a worm hanging out the mouth of a venis fly trap been impaled by its teeth.
Steel....try steel
(Breaks mandibles)
mealworms vs thoothpaste?
“Are there things mealworms can’t eat?”
Me: uranium 235
Out of curiosity, how often do you have to buy new mealworms? After a certain point they'd eventually try to pupate into their full Darkling Beetle glory
He definitely breeds them himself. Mealworms only live a few months in the larvae form, and buying them to the scale in these videos would be absurdly expensive
@@Nickher_321nah man, you can get a bag like his for less than 10 bucks
They are commercially available in bulk and are typically available in containers with bran or oatmeal for food. Commercial growers incorporate a juvenile hormone into the feeding process to keep the mealworm in the larval stage and achieve an abnormal length of 2 cm or greater.
- from the Wikipedia page of mealworms
I'll tell you a secret.
The beetle lays mealworm eggs.
@@asute 2cm isn't abnormal length for a meal worm at all. Maybe 2 inches.
3:10 did it kill them?
They starved
Yeah it seems to have killed them
Lmao at the mealworms dying because of the rotten fish.
crazy world we live in... worms be eating better than humans nowadays
Surströmming killed them all 😭💀
cry baby
The Surströmming probably was avoided due to it's salt content
3:36 worms together strong
Worm alone weak
@@Angrydestoyer69420 true
4:02 did anybody else mistaken it for a sugar cube? 😅
They working together like one large organism consuming edible matter in matter of hours looks surprisingly cute, idk😂
One question, though. Did they die eating Surstromming? And the tabacco? I thought they died after eating the tabacco, they looked dead.
Possibly. Nicotine is a pesticide. That is why the tobacco leafs grows it in its leaves, to repel insects.
I swear that surstromming killed em all
Don’t worry they had a totem of undying on them
See Sweden!? Even MEALWORMS won't eat that crap! Some traditions are best left in the past.
@@chinchepunta Please take a pass with Google translate, you're using several words in a very strange context.
All I can think about watching these videos is the speech that "Brick Top" gives in the movie "Snatch" talking about how many pigs it takes to dispose of a human body.
2:04 Why did you buy them an A5 Wagyu isnt this expensive af ¿ und gut zu wissen, dass du Österreicher bist :D
3:25 Then the Hunter becomes the Hunted HAHA!
The part where you talked about possibility of recycling plastics was the most interesting to me
Given enough time (and replacement mealworms), they could eat anything, and honestly I would like to see maybe a couple hundred hours timelapse where they actually finish the undesirable part of their meal.
Even the surstromming? LOL
they should try eating the universe ☠️
Kept meal worms before a whole box of them as food for my arowana. They are quite interesting and very fascinating to watch when they feed. You can literally feed them almost anything and they will eat, just make sure to remove whatever is left after an hour to prevent mold and decay. They also smell really good when cooked, with some people even commenting they taste like peanut butter.
I WILL NOT EAT THE BUGS
Bros ate and left no crumbs 🔥🔥
watching time lapse videos of these worms is my stress reliever
Ok, I had to laugh at the part with the honey...
Ending the experiment as to not harm the mealworms...
Then the very next segment shows them in the jaws of a carnivorous plant. 😅
Great compilation. Start to finish.
The RUclips compression algorithm just LOVES the mealworm time lapses. But I love them more
Plastic? yes please, surströmming? HELL NAH.
If worms refuse to eat it you know how awfull it really is lol
I live in Sweden and i would never eat surströmming, it's literally rotten raw fish in a stinky liquid.
Edit: if you pop one of those cans on a plane, you got yourself a planecrash within the next 5 minutes...
I tried Surströmming when I did the time lapse video of it, and yes I agree it's very unusual, but I liked it. I'm not from Sweden, so it's very new to me, but I think most people who try it gag because they take it as a challenge and try to swallow a whole fish... or chew a whole fish. Just the fish, no bread, no nothing. That's not how anyone suppose to eat Surströmming, am I right? Take a thick slice of fresh bread (even better if it's freshly bakes so it's still warm), spread butter on it, and then season it with surströmming. Cut onions into chunky pieces, it goes very well with it. That's how I ate it, and it was delicious.
@@PhotoOwl Honestly, ur completely right. the truth is, it's the smell that put people off, me personally i would never try it because i'm a very picky eater lol. But as most people say. the taste isn't that bad if eaten correctly - combined with other foods. I'm glad you liked it! :D
Edit: Fun fact - Making jokes about surströmming is kind of a trend in Sweden as much as eating it is hahah xD
Love the videos man, keep it up!
The plastics are fascinating! I have never seen an animal able to eat plastic before.
Yeah wtf? He said eat and digest. They really can digest that?
@They lied to you about world war two just because the worms can chew up plastic and pass it through their body, does not mean that they are able to extract nutrition from plastic. Thus the worms will die of starvation on a diet of only Styrofoam. A person can chew up a plastic bag and possibly get it through their digestive tract but what plastic processing had occurred?
@@theyliedtoyouaboutworldwar1944 I have a mealworm farm and yes, they can eat and digest it
@@awesomearthropods4189 and plastic doesnt kill them? How much time a mealworm live?
@@awesomearthropods4189 Could you give them plastic and then check what is left as they digest it 🤔
If they poop out microplasic then unfortunatly we cant use them for cleaning waste
Lol, way to understate the surstromming. It literally killed them. 😂
having a phobia of worms this video was a trip for me
3:55 those worms must be really high
High? Tf you talking about
This is so fascinating. You can basically use them as your garbage can😂
I like this kind of video format. It's informative, quick and unique than many of your awesome time lapse videos. I'll consider this video a 'special treat' 👍
voice in your channel, uncommon
Them taking down the Venus fly trap was purely out of spite. They wanted revenge, plain, and simple. And I’m here for it.
The plastic eating part needs to realised on a global scale. I for one welcome our new mealworm overlords.
Yeah there are also platic eating bacteria...good for environment
Imagine giving a piece of the highest grade and most expensive beef in the world to mealworms, and they don't even eat it
i think mealworms are adorable ❤❤❤❤
Can we just take a moment to appriciate how much time and hardwork does this man puts into his viteos...
3:30 rip. The hero was fighting off a whole army.
Bro the mealworms literally started dying from the surstromming
While they might not have enjoyed the honeycomb, I'm curious as to whether pure beeswax would be something mealworms would be able to eat. The honey itself may have posed a physical boundary that, if absent, could have allowed them to sample the wax content easier.
And if we're feeding them beeswax, why not also try paraffin wax? If they can digest synthetic polymers such as polystyrene, it'd be interesting to see them try other solid petroleum derivatives as well, especially if they liked pure beeswax.
Nem is gondoltam volna, hogy magyarok vagytok, de az ‘akácméz’ elárult titeket😂 amúgy nagyon jók a videók, így tovább!
Ugyanezt gondoltam mint te xd, èn is kiszúrtam a Magyar feliratot a mézen
Amúgy a Coca Cola-s videóban is volt ‘Zéró Cukor’ felirat
Nekem is az akácmézen akadt meg a tekintetem
I don't know what's crazier: The fact that they can eat a variety of different things in this video or that these damn mealworms are eating better than me LMFAO 😂😋
Just curious about looking at the meal worm frass under a microscope after consuming polypropylene items, and what about of micro-plastics is left?
so we would need to dump like a tonne of these on the floating garbage island and let them destroy it… i mean eat it and have nature to evolve them to pure plastic eaters… then we could ship more plastic to them and have this offsite plastic processing “plant”
all the while they could provide food for sea creatures :)
Microplastics would imply that they only mechanically break the contents down into smaller pieces, which is not the case. They digest it.
@cell4224 digest plastic Into smaller plastic. Because, where else can it be digested into? Just a world of smaller micro plastic...
@@mattclinch1976When the chemical bonds get broken down, it isn't plastic anymore. It's like how all of the food we eat doesn't turn into tiny shredded portions of that food inside us, but it gets broken down into waste. Plastics are made of the same elements a lot of other things on earth are made of, just organized in a certain way. Digestion breaks it back down into those basic elements
Lucky worms, they are the best fed worms on the planet! Their menu is quite impressive😀
Ok but its cool how the mealworms ate the entire nectarine and the pit was perfectly clean
Damn I’d never go hungry again if I was turned into a mealworm
Odds are you'd be destined to become bird food if you were a meal worm.
Magyar lépesméz? Ez igen! :) Szép munka, jók a videók!
Keep up the good work!
Nem biztos, hogy magyarok...
“ left it untouched” they literally died💀
well, untouched, or not? :D
WOW, that's so cool. How long would it take for the mealworms to eat a steak that is roughly 180 lbs?
3:05 - When even mealworms who eat practically anything won't touch a "food", you know you should avoid this at all costs as a human being ... The same goes for the Kinder Surprise Egg.
Yeah because of the surströmming's high salt /acid they got killed..
@@GamerWien A warning to all humans.
why should you avoid kinder surprise? It is just chocolate and the toy container is not easy to swallow by accident, I would always bite down on the chocolate no problem just to get to the toy and find out what is inside when I open it as a kid.
Then I would put together the toy and play with it, loved kinder because of that.
@@DemiCape he is the one who swallowed it xD
So Wt u do for living : Feeding worms ...
I envy those worms, I never had gold wagyu A5 steak in my life.
They're so crowded I'm surprised they don't eat each other.
01:02 noooooo, cactonio!
I love mealworms. Not only because of their appetite, but because of the protein they carry. My pets love their mealworm treats! ❤
"I've had to cut experiment short to prevent harm to the mealworms"
Next second: "Let's give them some flytraps friends"
That's VERY fascinating, I had no idea they could digest styrofoam! That feels like it could have super interesting implications for landfill sites hum. Is there any research on practical applications of mealworms as a potential means of waste removal?
Yes and you can google it to see that it is currently in an experimental stage
I'm not surprised by the chocolate, it's actually directly toxic to insects.
The key ingredient of chocolate is theobromine which is a natural insecticide very similar to caffeine. Theobromine is actually a lot more potent as a toxin and is not only lethal to insects but to many birds and mammals as well. Humans are actually somewhat exceptional in our ability to consume large quantities of it.
amazing video, bro your words eat better than i do haha , i never had japoanses steak with gold leafs before dgood for those worms they are living the lifE !!!
Hey I really like your videos! Could you do a freezing fruit video? Like a timelapse of a fruit submerged in clear ice for a couple of months, would be interesting to observe if ice slows the rotting
I honestly hadn’t pondered the question despite growing up with a variety of reptile and amphibian pets who ate them. I had no idea of their voraciousness.
HAHHAHA EVEN MEALWORMS are like "we cant eat that we arent savages" when encountering the swedish fish
i used to have a pixie frog, and used to buy these guys all the time, i love running my hands through a bucket of them, feels so satisfying
They are a motivated workforce who complain little & are willing to work for long hours at a time. If mealworms were humans, then Japanese corporates would immediately hire them in large numbers. ❤
Holy cow the plastic thing could be revolutionary and should seriously be further explored
Love that you make sure the little guys aren’t harmed 💪
Very awesome.
*Proceeds to feed the mealworms to a venus flytrap*