Placing soaked dried mealworms on or near the ground can encourage these birds into your garden. These would usually provide a hydrating and nutrient-dense food source for ground-feeding birds, like Starlings, Robins and Blackbirds. During the Summer months, the ground is often too dry for earthworms to rise to the surface of the ground. How should I feed dried mealworms to birds?ĭried mealworms must be soaked in water before being fed - especially during drier seasons.

These could include straight seeds like sunflower seeds or sunflower hearts, seed mixes, suet pellets and suet fat balls, and peanuts.Īvailable in 100g and 250g resealable pouches and 550g and 1kg bags.

For best results, we recommend including dried mealworms in your garden alongside other types of bird food. This will attract more species of wild bird into your garden. When choosing your wild bird food, it is important to have a diverse range of food sources available in your garden or feeding area. Live food is often left out of gardens, which means people can miss out on seeing several ground-feeding species of garden birds. Insects are an excellent addition to your bird food selection. This will provide birds with much-needed moisture, which is naturally present in live mealworms. If you are choosing to feed dried mealworms to birds, it is important that you soak them in water before you put them out in your garden. Dried mealworms offer a similar amount of fat and protein as l ive mealworms, but without the wriggle. Some people are put off live worms because of their wriggle in this case, dried alternatives are a good option. Insects and other invertebrates are an important food source for many species of wild bird. Mealworms are the larvae form of the darkling beetle, which many commonly refer to as the mealworm beetle. Dried mealworms are the non-live equivalent of live mealworms.

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