This video didn't go as planned... sorry you had to see this. In case there are some crazy people that want to support me making more crappy content: patreon.com/Homemade_ecoystems

@richfromtang

Ай бұрын

Maybe get the mic out of your mouth? it's cracking.

@lord_poof_gaming6795

Ай бұрын

You are literally my favorite KZreadr I love your videos

@victoriawilliams2786

Ай бұрын

I really enjoy your videos and love that I get to learn too. Thank-you for sharing!

@Frog87328

28 күн бұрын

You don't make crappy content your videos are 4k quality unlike mine

@adamelias6169

27 күн бұрын

What country Are you from?

I will never not love your monotone voice of inner pain

@Dependencycourtsellschildren

Ай бұрын

Like Werner hertzog.

R.I.P. New new bob, he was a hero and a savior for many, he will never be forgotten

@FussyPickles

Ай бұрын

After Harambe, it's all downhill

@ShoutOfCoffee

Ай бұрын

Hear hear!!!

@ElementoPlayz1

Ай бұрын

Noooooo!

@Loggers124

4 күн бұрын

rip new new bob :(

I used to breed superworms for my lizards. They don't usually metamorphosize in groups because the other larvae will eat the pupae. I had to put them in their own individual 2oz cups (little plastic condiment cups) and they started transforming into pupae within a week. Try putting individual worms into smaller containers with no food or water source, no substrate, and keep it dark (mine were in shoe boxes). Soon enough, you'll have Darkling Beetles.

@HomemadeEcosystems

Ай бұрын

Yeah there are 3 isolated but maybe it was because there was still some substrate in there

@Hyouka-Hates-Handles

Ай бұрын

Weird... I once did a similar thing like he did in the video with the superworms but I put in like 20~ of them even though they where kind of clumped up most of them still metamorphosized.

@ShoutOfCoffee

Ай бұрын

Nice bro. Thanks for info.

@freelunatwo

Ай бұрын

I had a similar experience. My isolated worm settled down to metamorphosis pretty quickly. I have also heard that the worms don’t metamorphose in groups due to cannibalism.

@jmgalaxytab2325

Ай бұрын

Seems like you are triggering them into metamorphosis, forcing them into chrysalids. Absence of resources to accelerate a process, makes sense... because the adult bugs do have wings and will use them to find food further away! So there you will need a lid because those bugs will probably fly! (Which under normal conditions, they don't. Only an occasional wanderer... Indeed thnx for that info. Nice to know it can be accelerated.

watch out with those mites. they can crawl out the terrarium and infect all the other animals. you can get hibernastic miles or predatory mites because they eat the bad mites.

@HomemadeEcosystems

Ай бұрын

Yeah I know, I threw everything those crickets touched away.

@user-jq1jv8ts8m

Ай бұрын

@@HomemadeEcosystems That's good. Watch out for eggs. If you threw everyting away then you're fine.

@aliceong724

23 күн бұрын

He is a biologist, Im sure he knows :) 5 years of biology paid off, maybe

@vlc-cosplayer

5 күн бұрын

It's funny how animals can be split in just two categories: - pests - animals that deal with pests by eating them 💀

I had a pet mealworm as a kid. He lived for a year after turning into a darkling beetle! I kept him in a container of oats.

The addition of the dramatic hand cam really made me feel like I was a superworm about to be picked up by a mysterious cucumber god. Great artistic expression. Keep it up.

I tried doing this previously with superworms for my bearded dragon, and I had the best results by feeding them until they started to get noticeably darker at the tail/head like at the end of your video where it bit you. this usually happens with the fattest super worms which will be most likely to survive the isolation period. It works best to put them into compartmental organizer boxes for stuff like fishing lures/screws/etc, which really restricts their movement space. Once you put them in there, don't give them any food, this will stress them out(or maybe they're just SO bored) which will cause them to go into the curled up position in just a few days, and they will transform much faster. Keep them in there until they transform completely into a beetle and then move them into another enclosure that has a mesh screen floor that sits on top of another box/tray beneath it. I used egg cartons for them to hide/climb on, and threw in random vegetables for food. You might have to adjust their temperature to get them to start laying eggs, but once they start laying eggs, the eggs are small enough that they will fall through the mesh into the box underneath which prevents the beetles from eating the eggs and any newly hatched worms. The eggs are practically invisible and the newly hatched superworms are also barely visible too, so the mesh screen will really help you separate them and allow them to grow without being eaten. If you bother the beetles too much, they put off a smell that I can only describe as similar to burning plastic and garbage. Just thought I'd include that fun fact 😂 For the substrate in the egg receiving box/tray, I had good luck using plain oatmeal or crushed up wheat-thins, and then I'd throw in a couple full sized carrots split in half down their length with the core of the carrot facing downwards into the oatmeal to keep it from drying out too quickly. If the ambient humidity is very low and causing the eggs/worms to die before growing, you can also mix in a small amount of saturated water-crystals that will help raise the humidity and they can also drink from. Hope this helps.

@HomemadeEcosystems

Ай бұрын

thanks this definitely helps a lot!!

@jacksonwyatttrammell7524

13 күн бұрын

Bro gave us three paragraphs bro and probably 10473927710 words and 104857829492874204927491749194729 letters bro

The growing plant was the real Bob of the video.

Soldier Ant theme took me out 😂. Absolutely love watching these.

Oh, superworm is so excited to be on your wonderful gentle(man) hand, that he couldn't control himself.

@AndreuszVII

Ай бұрын

Ayo

@lawrencema1985

Ай бұрын

We call it the "wee of excitement" with our puppy

"Why am I always patting the substrate?" Because it is a good substrate.

@tsm688

2 күн бұрын

*pats substrate* "that's not going anywhere"

I think of that music every time i see a solder ant now. How dare you grace us with rememberable content.

Who's that -Pokemon- animal? iiiiiit's *BOB* no doubt.

@HomemadeEcosystems

Ай бұрын

Yes it is!

I tried to have a pet snake once. I ended up with a lot of adult mice, and a hungry snake. Cuz, mice are cute, it turns out, and I'm a bleeding heart sissy. Who knew?

@HomemadeEcosystems

Ай бұрын

Yeah I wouldn't be able to do that either. I already feel sorry for crickets 😂

@justkittensbeingkittens5892

Ай бұрын

That is the one reason I will never have a pet snake

@AvaO-od1gw

17 күн бұрын

Ok I AM NEVER FEEDING MY ANIMALS LIKE MY future like maybe in a couple months BULLFROG MICE THEYRE TOO CUTE JUST CRICKETS AND MEALWORMS aka the things in the vid bc I’m not feeding it a bird

@jacksonwyatttrammell7524

13 күн бұрын

Snakes are the best WOOO

@James.99

10 күн бұрын

To be fair, humans aren't any better. The feeder mice given to snakes are treated a lot better than the factory-raised chickens and cows who feed humans

The somewhat depressing part is some sources online claim the beetles the superworms transform into it can live for up to 15 years. And, yeah, they need to be isolated or else they generally won’t begin the transformation process.

@HomemadeEcosystems

Ай бұрын

I didn't know that they could live for 15 years! if they end up still transforming I'm building them a real big terrarium

@HomemadeEcosystems

Ай бұрын

@josefnortje2929 mealworms are a different species. But they look very similar so probably have a similar life cycle

The pinkies out at the beginning… Best. Video. Evar.

@FussyPickles

Ай бұрын

Pinkies out for New New Bob Ds out for Harambe

Now i have a new fear that the crickets i buy for my gecko might have mites, gotta check every box now XD

@HomemadeEcosystems

Ай бұрын

yeah, you have to be careful with that

Learning so much because of these videos like: random bumbs on bugs are not a good sign or that plants grow

@MichaelPiz

Ай бұрын

Right? That "plants grow" thing blew my mind! Who knew?

i've been really stressed out finishing school finals lately, thank you for your silly and relaxing content c:

@HomemadeEcosystems

Ай бұрын

Good luck with finals!

“The ones that keep you up in summer” so true 😂😂❤❤

This should have more views😭this man dead expression with everything he says just funny somehow

Thank you for clarifying the distance on your hike, I was briefly confused.

Your dry humour is great.

Saw this post in relation to cricket mites and how to deal with them "Get some mite spray (in the bird section in pet stores), and lay down paper towels under where you have your cricket bin. Spray down the paper towels with the mite spray and then put the fully cleaned cricket bin on top. Mites are a royal pain - stay on top of cleaning your cricket cage and you should be just fine"

@HomemadeEcosystems

Ай бұрын

thanks for the tips!

You remind me a lot of my dad. He makes ecosystems on a slightly larger scale.

Absolutely in love with those 💯 jokes said with the most deadpan voice. It layers with the sarcasm like 👩‍🍳👌✨

Soldier Ant returns! 10/10

Corn meal is about all you need to raise mealworms,, maybe a bit of lettuce of something for moisture.

@jmgalaxytab2325

Ай бұрын

Any kind of meal will do. I ran out of oatmeal so I started to give them coffee grounds! Any kind of organic (dry) waste, actually, will do the job.

Theres the voice that i have missed❤😂

You gave them beetle heaven and as such, they felt no rush to grow up

Did you get a new camera ? I liked the macro views, even though i'm probably dreaming of face eating mites tonight 😆

@HomemadeEcosystems

Ай бұрын

Yes although it is not the first video I used it for 😁

@nopadelik9286

Ай бұрын

@@HomemadeEcosystems i just checked on your video list if i missed one of your last videos - i didn't. But maybe i wasn't as attentive as i was today, so i'm gonna rewatch them again 😌😇😅 cheers..

MAJOR WORKER SOLDIER !!!!

So anticlimactic. Lmfao. I love it

2 videos deep and i am heavily invested in this guy's world.

You outdid yourself this time with the editing. Great job my man!

@HomemadeEcosystems

Ай бұрын

thanks!

Your deadpan delivery cracks me up 😂

I like because he just so chill he has too much bugs

I used to watch you all the time and I never heard you talk this is kind of cool great video by the way

1:58 Well that's a first for you. Definitely need a refund for your "broken worms" 😆

Those mites look scary. Nice video!

Homemade Ecosystems, modern-day Lincoln to the crickets and superworms.

Looking at those crickets gives me chills 😭😭

You are so funny. I love your deadpan delivery.

You always sound so chill and that’s what makes me like your videos you sound like nothing wrong happens and I think your a great KZreadr because you care about bugs 🐛 🪳 🐞 and you care about crickets which is crazy but others don’t care so your the best

@jacksonwyatttrammell7524

13 күн бұрын

Also at the end of the video you said “and I suck at making videos” but I don’t think you are trash at making videos I think you are really good at making videos I always enjoy them and your videos are always so great so don’t say bad things about that stuff I care about your videos they are the most amazing videos ever

Its always getting better and better

my mom used to have a mealworm farm and when they turned into beetles we put them on a platform above the mealworms and when they layed eggs the eggs would fall into the meal worms and hatch into mealworms

say hi to new Bob for me 3:22

You can get rid of mites by spraying the enclosure with very diluted formic acid. The mites cant handle the acid as well as the insects can and this is also how some ants get rid of mites.

I love how sarcastic you are

I never feed my superworms or mealworms they just manage to thrive well until my reptiles eat them.

this was some okay content perfect for wasting my life and ruining my sleep schedule over just what i needed thanks

@HomemadeEcosystems

5 күн бұрын

best description of my content so far: ''okay''

1:50 The ones that appear on the video are called mealworms, super worms tend to eat slower

I just found your channel, and you’re hilarious, plus I love Ants, and lizards.

The one that peed on you mysteriously went missing...

I've actually seen this happen in person I actually thought they were genetically engineered to stay as worms before seeing that. It's interesting to see that happen

I love Bob.....

Good to see u again❤

When I was around 8yo I got a pet cricket I loved very much. I fed it every day. One day I discovered a white cricket slid into my cricket's cage and killed it. Only a dried-out exoskeleton remained of my beloved cricket. Of course, I threw the murderer away and mourned the senseless murder. Many years later I found out about moulting. Crickets never get a break. Anyway, those poor creatures' horrible deaths in this video reminded me of poor whitey; and why I try never to pass judgment on issues I'm ignorant about.

@HomemadeEcosystems

Ай бұрын

Same thing with hamsters.. a lot of them have been buried alive by people that don't know they hibernate...

@jmgalaxytab2325

Ай бұрын

Ouch!

Yeeeees I love this dude

Thanks for the video!😊

You've promised me Bob. You've delivered Bob, New Bob and New New Bob. 300% promises delivered. Nice.

"Nurture and feed" Hah I have a plastic container from an rotisserie chicken, I put oatmeal in it with the meal worms and some potato slices. I had to go and left this box for 2 months and they STILL survived. Tons of molts. So many worm shells... I wonder if the material is useful. Anyway there were still some living, and surprise hundreds of tiny worms (they must require less water and it must be beneficial for them to not grow quickly, without water available.) So I'm starting fresh with colony and giving them potatoes again. I don't even have a lizard now. Lol I bought them to feed a toad I caught last summer, before I released it.

@tashastarling6573

Ай бұрын

It is nice you give them a habitat :) Bugs have lives too. I never bothered with crickets. I find they smell funny. I don't like holding them either. I had a leopard gecko as a teen so learned to keep my own worms.

Dang new video, that’s what’s up

I love your videos, the monotone jokes are exactly my humor

i have pet mealworms but it took some time for them to become beetles

Dunno why but ur voice makes me stay n listen lol

I love you, fantastic content!

always entertaining vids. thank you for sharing

As a reptile keeper. Your my favorite youtuber as of now 😂

We had mealworms turn into beetles in our bird food. The crows loved them.

new bob never to be seen again, honestly new bob might even start his own colony

It's very strange how the " worms " didn't want to eat that cucumber; it's what they mainly eat.

@HomemadeEcosystems

9 күн бұрын

Yeah indeed, thought it was strange too!

>even Superworms refuse to eat cucumber Smart larvae.

The only reason I clicked on this video, is the deal about meal/super worms turning into beetles. I’ve had to school my local pet store about NOT keeping them in the fridge! Almost all of the containers had beetles that took over! I told them that we the consumers of feeder worms do NOT want beetles, so “KEEP THEM IN THE DAMN FRIDGES”!!! Now, I have subscribed as not only was your video informative…it made me laugh👍💯🙏🏼🇨🇦

1:39 blud has broken worms 💀

Man I was watching you ever since you had like 30k subs and I was hoping you would blow up!

I let mealworms loose in my crested gecko cage once, the problem was they burrowed under the substrate and none of em got eaten, they all turned to beetles and never got eaten, I had to get rid of them, not even fish wanted to eat em....

if its not too late for the crickets,i believe there are some types of flies (or fruit flies?idk) that eat mites.I only remember this from another video i watched like 2 year ago.

Good luck, New Bob!

I like how nothing happens in this vid but its still entertaining regardless

Your so relatable :D love to you bro!

Great video!

Yes, darkling beetles.

your videos are my favorite i swear -a stupid beetle

I had these or very similar ones. They ate styrofoam decorations in terrarium. Wooden decorations too. They tried to eat plastic plants too...

@HomemadeEcosystems

Ай бұрын

And mine don't want to eat actual food..

This was hilarious. I've never grown superworms but I've grown mealworms and also the dermestid beetles that come with crickets/roaches/etc. The dermestid beetles take literally zero additional effort if you're already keeping roaches or crickets and they're really useful since they eat organic matter keeping it clean. The larvae are also useful for feeding young/small species of mantids since it's way easier to keep a constant supply of them than of fruit flies. Easier to catch than tiny crickets/roaches and I've also noticed some species seem to be more attracted to the beetle larvae than crickets/roaches (p. Spurca and p. Paradoxa)

@HomemadeEcosystems

5 күн бұрын

Never heard of those, going to look into them

I buy the super worms for my mice and rats sometimes. At one point I was rearranging my mice enclosure and I found 2 of those beetles on the back of one of the wooden climb walls. I did have to remove them (my rats enjoyed eating them) because they're quite big. My group of mice had declined to only 1 by then due to age. I didn't want to take any risks. Meel worms only now :)

Aww yiss! I was waiting for a new video :))

Three cheers for Bob, new Bob, new new Bob (rest in pieces) and Soldier Ant!

I live for these videos

The Super-worms should be put in separate containers because the larvae with eat the pupae. If the Grain Mites Spread to your house plants the best way to kill them is to spray watered down Dish soap or Bubble Solution on the plants, I don't know exactly why it kills them but it works.

@HomemadeEcosystems

Ай бұрын

Thanks for the tips

Who would win a fight: bob , new bob or new new bob

@HomemadeEcosystems

Ай бұрын

I think new Bob

i hope you know i always click to the next video in the end, even though it's always one i've already seen.

@HomemadeEcosystems

Ай бұрын

thank you!

I expect a follow-up video! 🤗👍

Dude, seriously, you are such a funny guy, your humor always makes me chuckle. Also, Soldier Ant for the Win, (Rock Music starts Playing).

@HomemadeEcosystems

Ай бұрын

I see you are a man of culture, you know the soldier ant theme

@PeterLedergerber

Ай бұрын

@@HomemadeEcosystems Well, it's kinda becoming a running gag thing with your channel at this point, a really funny and good one though. Really though, i always enjoy watching your stuff, its always made really well and entertaining. And the Insect stuff is also really interesting, i always like to learn new things, about the creepy crawlies, so, nice to have that and a bit of a laugh at the same time. Glad i found your channel, i always come when i see you have uploaded a new Vid.

We call them mealy worms, I kept them in a large container filled with bran and put normal sponges on top. They transformed and laid eggs, hatched again and just cycled forever , with an occasional new sponge to destroy. I bred them for my birds.😊

@HomemadeEcosystems

Ай бұрын

Yeah meal worms look very similar but are a smaller than these super worms (also called morio worms)

@ae2948

Ай бұрын

@@HomemadeEcosystems THANK YOU for that clarification because I was thinking the same as ALA9E.

When i was a kid i would pour mealworms in my lizard tank, some of them would turn white and not move, it really freaked me out, then i started wondering why there was beetles in my lizard tank, now i know why

Unfortunately I don't watch these videos for info, I watch for the humor !! Keep it coming amigo!

I hope you call a future animal Derek. There's gotta be a Derek out there somewhere...