How to Use mealworm in a Sentence
mealworm
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Small pieces of garden worms get the call as do mealworms at this time.
—Jim Gronaw, Baltimore Sun, 2 July 2023
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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
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The males could then offer either a single mealworm or moth through the screen as a gift.
—Brandon Keim, WIRED, 4 Feb. 2013
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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
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The squirrel monkeys were tested with mealworms and were fooled 93 percent of the time.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 4 Apr. 2023
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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
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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
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Tipping jogs with half of a wax or mealworm has been productive.
—Colorado Parks & Wildlife, The Denver Post, 26 Feb. 2017
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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
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And Ynsect is not alone in its ambitions for mealworms.
—The Economist, 4 July 2019
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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
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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
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The lesser mealworm is the fourth insect to be granted EFSA approval.
—Alex Ledsom, Forbes, 18 July 2022
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Inside the second box, a thousand mealworms wriggled over an egg crate.
—Jason Plautz, Ars Technica, 28 Nov. 2019
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In Australia, dogs can chow down on pumpkin and mealworm biscuits made by Buggy Bix.
—Matt Reynolds, Wired, 15 Feb. 2022
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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
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Then bite into the burger of rice, chopped vegetables, spices and mealworm larvae.
—seattletimes.com, 8 Sep. 2017
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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
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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
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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
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One of the most advanced mealworm-raising enterprises is run by Ynsect, a French firm.
—The Economist, 4 July 2019
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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
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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
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In France, Ÿnsect has launched a breeding program to study the genetics of Tenebrio molitor, the mealworm beetle.
—Matt Reynolds, Wired, 15 Feb. 2022
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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
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Live pets, including ferrets, guinea pigs, some snakes and reptiles, sit next to parakeets, crickets and mealworms.
—Hank Beckman, Chicago Tribune, 9 June 2023
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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
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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
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For the first stunt, Roeschlein had to lie down in a glass box while covered in mealworms, snakes and scorpions as McNew was busy trying to find the key to free her teammate, who is also her roommate.
—Anthony Clark Carpio, Burbank Leader, 15 June 2017
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The experiment showed the corvids could quickly piece together how to ditch birds from the other group in order to maximize mealworms.
—Tara Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Oct. 2023
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