Description
Dried mealworms for birds
Dried mealworms are a tasty treat for garden birds with all the nutrition of live mealworms without the ‘worm factor’. Attractive to robins, blackbirds, thrushes and all other insect eating birds. Available in sizes ranging from 250 gm to 3 kg. Orders below 1 Kg must be purchased with food product 13kg upward.
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Why are dried mealworms good for birds?
Dried mealworms are the larvae stage of the Darkling Beetle and especially appeal to wild birds natural instincts. Packed with protein and fats they help your garden birds through the leanest, coldest months of the year. This is no mean feat. Small birds can lose between 10 -20% of their body weight overnight in the cold. To cope, they feed-up as much as they can in the hours before nightfall. Small garden birds, such as great tits, which feed on seeds and small insects, have to find food items at an average rate of one every ten seconds during daylight hours through the winter if they are to make it through to spring.
Studies by the RSPB (Royal Society for the Protection of Birds) seem to show that especially in towns and cities fat and protein rich food provided at bird-tables significantly increases the winter survival rate of several garden bird species. Mealworms are good all year round treat. Mealworms provide a good source of nutrition to nestlings. Many birds will feed their young seeds if there is no other option but a tasty, easy to swallow, nutrient packed mealworm is a much-preferred delicacy.
Which birds eat dried mealworms?
Many different kinds of birds love to eat mealworms, but the birds below are particularly fond of them.
- Robins
- Blackbirds
- Wrens
- Dunnocks
- Starlings
- House sparrows
- Blackcaps
- Song thrushes
- Blue tits
- Great tits
- Nuthatches
Did you know?
Mealworms can also be fed to hedgehogs. Soak them in some warm water and add them to their own feeding station.
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