How to Use mealworm in a Sentence

mealworm

noun

• Small pieces of garden worms get the call as do mealworms at this time.
  — Jim Gronaw, Baltimore Sun, 2 July 2023
• Fill this toy with treats, like scratch or mealworms, and watch as your chickens roll it around to get the goods.
  — Katie Bowlby, Country Living, 12 July 2023
• The males could then offer either a single mealworm or moth through the screen as a gift.
  — Brandon Keim, WIRED, 4 Feb. 2013
• The jig, spiced with a mealworm, was perhaps 16 feet beneath her, just above the lake's bottom.
  — John Perritano, Popular Mechanics, 22 Dec. 2020
• The squirrel monkeys were tested with mealworms and were fooled 93 percent of the time.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 4 Apr. 2023
• On each child’s desk is a small plastic cup with two holes in the top for the mealworms, which are soon to be fully formed beetles.
  — Mike Ellis, USA TODAY, 15 May 2017
• Living, juicy mealworms are known to be a top choice for bluebirds feeding their young as well.
  — Kristen (kj) Callihan, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Mar. 2023
• Tipping jogs with half of a wax or mealworm has been productive.
  — Colorado Parks & Wildlife, The Denver Post, 26 Feb. 2017
• Last weekend, the center ran out, and volunteers scoured pet stores all over the city and rounded up three dozen mealworm tubs.
  — Jeffery Jones, National Geographic, 8 Oct. 2020
• And Ynsect is not alone in its ambitions for mealworms.
  — The Economist, 4 July 2019
• Cows requires ten times as much feed and much more water to produce a pound of protein compared to mealworms.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 12 Jan. 2017
• As the insects grow, the Beta Hatch team removes the frass the mealworms produce, and replenishes their food.
  — Kara Carlson, The Seattle Times, 22 June 2017
• The lesser mealworm is the fourth insect to be granted EFSA approval.
  — Alex Ledsom, Forbes, 18 July 2022
• Inside the second box, a thousand mealworms wriggled over an egg crate.
  — Jason Plautz, Ars Technica, 28 Nov. 2019
• In Australia, dogs can chow down on pumpkin and mealworm biscuits made by Buggy Bix.
  — Matt Reynolds, Wired, 15 Feb. 2022
• To make sure the mealworm project would work, Rebecca and her family tested growing them in their own home.
  — Scott Luxor, sun-sentinel.com, 19 Aug. 2021
• Then bite into the burger of rice, chopped vegetables, spices and mealworm larvae.
  — seattletimes.com, 8 Sep. 2017
• The burger is made with tasty beetroot, parsnip, and potatoes, but then is loaded with mealworms (a.k.a beetle larvae).
  — Shannon Barbour, Cosmopolitan, 13 Mar. 2018
• If the number of calls correctly corresponded to the number cue, the crows would get a tasty mealworm or birdseed pellets as a prize.
  — Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 23 May 2024
• The mission, Zond 5, carried a small menagerie to the Moon, including two tortoises, mealworms, wine flies, and a few other living things.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 17 July 2019
• One of the most advanced mealworm-raising enterprises is run by Ynsect, a French firm.
  — The Economist, 4 July 2019
• The chocolatier had the idea of placing mealworms or crickets on his chocolates after working in Japan and South Korea.
  — Stephanie Bailey, CNN, 25 July 2019
• Then, the Neatball is a version of Ikea's famous meatball made in two variations: mealworm and vegetable.
  — Suzannah Weiss, Teen Vogue, 13 Mar. 2018
• In France, Ÿnsect has launched a breeding program to study the genetics of Tenebrio molitor, the mealworm beetle.
  — Matt Reynolds, Wired, 15 Feb. 2022
• Scientists looking for ways to fight the pollution problem are now finding that mealworms might be useful in the process.
  — Erin Corbett, Fortune, 27 May 2018
• Live pets, including ferrets, guinea pigs, some snakes and reptiles, sit next to parakeets, crickets and mealworms.
  — Hank Beckman, Chicago Tribune, 9 June 2023
• First, Rowland and her co-author trained chicks to attack a mealworm hidden behind a paper printout of two eyespots at the end of a runway.
  — Maddie Bender, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2023
• Once, in Malaysian Borneo, Tuttle was trying to tame some Hardwicke's woolly bats by hand-feeding them mealworms.
  — Liz Langley, National Geographic, 11 Feb. 2017
• For instance, mealworms can only be eaten in the larva stage, while American desert locusts can only be eaten in the adult stage.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 July 2024
• The video also shows maggots and mealworms crawling across a table set with drinking glasses as Israeli and American flags stand side by side in the background.
  — Ellie Silverman, Washington Post, 24 July 2024

Last Updated: 17 Feb 2025