2000ct Live Mealworms, Pet Food for Reptile, Birds, and Fish
$28.99
Price: $28.99
(as of Nov 05, 2025 06:09:14 UTC – Details)
Mealworms (Tenebrio molitor) are the larvae of the darkling beetle.
Tenebrio molitor larvae
Customers say
Customers find these mealworms to be of good quality, with healthy and vibrant worms that stay alive for months in the refrigerator. The mealworms are active and customers consider them great value for money, particularly noting that bluebirds especially love them. The size receives mixed feedback, with some customers finding them good-sized while others say they are very small.
7 reviews for 2000ct Live Mealworms, Pet Food for Reptile, Birds, and Fish
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Lauren P –
Satisfied!
Happy, yet wish these were the larger variety, but arrived in great shape, ! Thank You Cricket Farm!
Angie Harris –
Healthy and going through their cycles.
Rainbow Mealworms was the vendor that sold my worms. They packaged the worms very well and labeled them as live animals so the post office knew to contact me when they arrived. They arrived alive and well … and thriving. I liked that there were additional instructions inside the package that explained what to do if you weren’t ready to process them when you received them. The worms are very healthy and have been going through their cycles. I’ve had them for a month now. I still have several worms, many pupae, and a dozen beetles.**I ordered from this company as well as another on the same day. Rainbow Mealworms is by far the best. The other company’s worms arrived DOA (and they had cost more per unit).
Hanairo-Kimisomu1 –
Very nice worms – Living well!
Excellent worms, most of which are large and very alive. I counted only two (2) dead ones out of the 2000-ct package. Yes, the packaging makes it a little bit of a chore to get out all the worms, but if that is part of the low price, I am fully willing to accept it.One piece of advice: If you empty the worms into the box that they had come in (in other words, you empty the cloth bag and shake the newspapers down into the shipping box), BE SURE to check all the honeycombs of the box (cross sections) afterwards. These worms very quickly hide in them, which is what I learned. I counted at least 50 worms hiding in those narrow tubular cells in the box only after a couple of minutes of emptying. I carefully sliced open the honeycombs to get them out. These worms move quick (= healthy) and hide very well.
Sharon –
Great for birds … last a long time.
I ordered these awhile ago to feed to my birds. Much cheaper than Wild Birds Unlimited… but beware you will need to be prepared. They arrive in a cloth sack with newspaper inside, so you will need to have the following below. I have had mine for almost 2 months and they are still thriving.Buy a shoebox sized plastic container from bed bath & beyond or somewhere, poke several holes in the top for air.Use oatmeal ( that’s what i used ) or cornmeal, or whatever they suggest on the web as a bedding.Keep your worms in the fridge, and once a week, take them out for a day or two and feed them an apple or whatever ( google ) I use apple.they should survive a long while and you can just feed them daily to your birds 🙂
Shopper –
Most terrible experience
I would give this a minus 10 if I could. Seller decided to send this item to be picked up as “live animals ” instead of “live insects” and requested to hold til picked up by buyer (me) with identification which, in turn, sent this package to parts unknown for 8 days and took me some time to find where it was after waiting for this item to be delivered for days. When I finally found it, the meal worms were mostly rotted and dead. This seller kept saying they were at my post office waiting for me to pick them up, but my post office does not deliver “Live Animals” on “hold for pickup” so they went to another branch of the post office about 4 miles away from my post office and there they sat for 8 days. My post office did not know anything about it since they never received it to begin with. Seller continued to tell me they were at my post office. After making calls and researching, I finally found where they were. The live animal post office branch here does not notify people of pickups because they “rightly” assume that when Live Animals are delivered you make those arrangements in advance. You don’t make those arrangements for “live insects.” Seller evidently thought that I was not adult enough and would leave my meal worms out in the heat outside. She never bothered to ask if someone would be home to get them, which I am 24/7. Seller just assumed I was not intelligent enough to know how to take care of meal worms and that I would leave them outside in the heat to die. I am not new to purchasing this item nor to taking care of them. Since it is my money being spent and my critter that needs this item to survive, I do value my money and my animals, I am not in the habit of wasting my money, I would be certain to make sure someone was here to take them in at delivery. I spent the better part of two weeks waiting home and not going anywhere during business hours to insure that I would be here to take them in. Seller did not inform me that the package would be shipped differently then every other time. Seller did not bother to call or write and ask if anyone would be here to take them in. Seller just assumed, I guess, that I am to stupid to know about heat and meal worms sitting in it for long periods. Seller ended up killing most of the meal worms herself by sending them labeled “Live Animals” and “hold for pickup.” instead of to my door the usual way that she had always done in the past. These worms sat in a heated building for 8 days with no food or moisture. When I opened the package the smell of rotting meal worms was overwhelming. Cleaning this mess out to try to salvage what I could was disgusting. All but a couple of small hand fulls of meal worms died. By trying to keep me from leaving them outside in the heat and not even asking me if I were that dumb to do that, the seller killed the majority of the meal worms herself by sending them somewhere to rot for 8 days with no food or moisture for survival in a heated building. They need to be refrigerated if they have no food or moisture to survive, even I know that. Buyer Beware, you may not be treated as an adult here!!
M. Esposito –
Every shipment has been perfect – no dead worms
I’ve been ordering for a year now. I started feeding 2 bluebirds in the middle of winter through the spring. When the local bugs became abundant, I stopped feeding them. This winter NINE bluebirds are waiting by the little dish waiting for their worms.I put my worms in a plastic shoe box with holes poked in the top with shredded paper, oatmeal, wheat bran and germ and sliced carrots. I leave the box in a dark closet and let them eat away until they get big and fat. When I guess they might start turning into a beetle or I see one, I put the container in the frig to make them go to sleep. I only take out of frig when I need to feed the birds.Every shipment has been perfect – no dead worms. During the cold months, the box is kept at the Post Office and I pick it up there.Thanks a lot – this has been fun supporting the local wildlife.
Christopher I Stone –
Good service responsiveness got me back
I had ordered from this vendor before and was satisfied–the meal worms were lively and healthy, and thrived in my wheat bran/oatmeal substrate. They were a little small, but I put in carrots (which they disintegrated within a day or two) and they bulked up nicely. My birds love ’em. My most recent order was a little disappointing because about 10-15% were blackish and dead, and there were more casts than their prior shipment. I let them know and they’ve offered to refund or send a new order, so their responsiveness is noteworthy. So I’m quite satisfied. Yeah, the mesh bag & newspaper shipping is a tedious and messy transfer process; a better way would be welcome.