Live Mealworms

Live mealworms are ideal for encouraging natural feeding behaviour in all kinds of wild birds, but they are especially enticing for ground-feeding birds like robins, blackbirds, chaffinches, wagtails, thrushes and wrens.

Our live mealworms are grown in the UK for us and are British bred! There are many companies importing mealworms from Europe; ours will be fresher as they won't have travelled far.

Live mealworms should be placed in a smooth, steep-sided container. Otherwise, they will wriggle up and out - they'll be gone in a flash! We offer a range of mealworm feeders that are perfect for our live mealworms. Click the link to shop.

We recommend using a feeder that features a roof or overhang to protect the worms from the rain and the sun. Drainage holes are a must if your feeder has no roof.

Windows feeders are great for mealworms, and it's fab to get a really close-up view of your robin and other smalls birds visiting. Caged feeders are also useful since they limit access to the bigger birds which can devour a whole pot in an instant!

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For more tips on feeding live worms to your garden birds, see Bird Feeding Tips: Live Mealworms and Wax Worms.

Mealworms (Tenebrio molitor) are the larvae of the flour beetle, a native British insect that eats flour, meal, grain and other related crops. Unlike some other worms, fresh mealworms don't smell bad - this is because of their vegetarian diet!

Mealworms can easily be stored in a garage or utility room because they are clean and odourless. They keep well at room temperature, but during the summer months, we suggest you keep them in a cool place that's out of direct sunlight.

Should you wish to store them for longer, you can transfer them to the warmest part of your fridge, away from the icebox!