I Saved "Worms'' From a Pet Store...They Transformed 

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I will never not love your monotone voice of inner pain

R.I.P. New new bob, he was a hero and a savior for many, he will never be forgotten

"Why am I always patting the substrate?" Because it is a good substrate.

The addition of the dramatic hand cam really made me feel like I was a superworm about to be picked up by a mysterious cucumber god. Great artistic expression. Keep it up.

watch out with those mites. they can crawl out the terrarium and infect all the other animals. you can get hibernastic miles or predatory mites because they eat the bad mites.

Soldier Ant theme took me out 😂. Absolutely love watching these.

The growing plant was the real Bob of the video.

I used to breed superworms for my lizards. They don't usually metamorphosize in groups because the other larvae will eat the pupae. I had to put them in their own individual 2oz cups (little plastic condiment cups) and they started transforming into pupae within a week. Try putting individual worms into smaller containers with no food or water source, no substrate, and keep it dark (mine were in shoe boxes). Soon enough, you'll have Darkling Beetles.

I had a pet mealworm as a kid. He lived for a year after turning into a darkling beetle! I kept him in a container of oats.

Oh, superworm is so excited to be on your wonderful gentle(man) hand, that he couldn't control himself.

I tried doing this previously with superworms for my bearded dragon, and I had the best results by feeding them until they started to get noticeably darker at the tail/head like at the end of your video where it bit you. this usually happens with the fattest super worms which will be most likely to survive the isolation period. It works best to put them into compartmental organizer boxes for stuff like fishing lures/screws/etc, which really restricts their movement space. Once you put them in there, don't give them any food, this will stress them out(or maybe they're just SO bored) which will cause them to go into the curled up position in just a few days, and they will transform much faster. Keep them in there until they transform completely into a beetle and then move them into another enclosure that has a mesh screen floor that sits on top of another box/tray beneath it. I used egg cartons for them to hide/climb on, and threw in random vegetables for food. You might have to adjust their temperature to get them to start laying eggs, but once they start laying eggs, the eggs are small enough that they will fall through the mesh into the box underneath which prevents the beetles from eating the eggs and any newly hatched worms. The eggs are practically invisible and the newly hatched superworms are also barely visible too, so the mesh screen will really help you separate them and allow them to grow without being eaten. If you bother the beetles too much, they put off a smell that I can only describe as similar to burning plastic and garbage. Just thought I'd include that fun fact 😂 For the substrate in the egg receiving box/tray, I had good luck using plain oatmeal or crushed up wheat-thins, and then I'd throw in a couple full sized carrots split in half down their length with the core of the carrot facing downwards into the oatmeal to keep it from drying out too quickly. If the ambient humidity is very low and causing the eggs/worms to die before growing, you can also mix in a small amount of saturated water-crystals that will help raise the humidity and they can also drink from. Hope this helps.

I think of that music every time i see a solder ant now. How dare you grace us with rememberable content.

I tried to have a pet snake once. I ended up with a lot of adult mice, and a hungry snake. Cuz, mice are cute, it turns out, and I'm a bleeding heart sissy. Who knew?

The somewhat depressing part is some sources online claim the beetles the superworms transform into it can live for up to 15 years. And, yeah, they need to be isolated or else they generally won’t begin the transformation process.

The pinkies out at the beginning… Best. Video. Evar.

Learning so much because of these videos like: random bumbs on bugs are not a good sign or that plants grow

When I was around 8yo I got a pet cricket I loved very much. I fed it every day. One day I discovered a white cricket slid into my cricket's cage and killed it. Only a dried-out exoskeleton remained of my beloved cricket. Of course, I threw the murderer away and mourned the senseless murder. Many years later I found out about moulting. Crickets never get a break. Anyway, those poor creatures' horrible deaths in this video reminded me of poor whitey; and why I try never to pass judgment on issues I'm ignorant about.

Who's that -Pokemon- animal? iiiiiit's *BOB* no doubt.

The mites on the face were beyond the bounds of good taste. Can't unsee them.

“The ones that keep you up in summer” so true 😂😂❤❤

i've been really stressed out finishing school finals lately, thank you for your silly and relaxing content c:

Your dry humour is great.

This should have more views😭this man dead expression with everything he says just funny somehow

Thank you for clarifying the distance on your hike, I was briefly confused.

Now i have a new fear that the crickets i buy for my gecko might have mites, gotta check every box now XD

0:44 "WHOS THAT... animal." now that's some top tier voice acting. such emotion was put into the character.

1:12 the way you said “ewww this one peed on me” is so funny😂

You remind me a lot of my dad. He makes ecosystems on a slightly larger scale.

I've actually seen this happen in person I actually thought they were genetically engineered to stay as worms before seeing that. It's interesting to see that happen

So anticlimactic. Lmfao. I love it

I ran my own personal experiment with super worms, I kept them in an aquarium with only styrofoam as a food source, a large amount made it to adult hood but the conditions weren't good enough for them to reproduce, from what I understand they need to be isolated to layeggs.

I love how sarcastic you are

Theres the voice that i have missed❤😂

Saw this post in relation to cricket mites and how to deal with them "Get some mite spray (in the bird section in pet stores), and lay down paper towels under where you have your cricket bin. Spray down the paper towels with the mite spray and then put the fully cleaned cricket bin on top. Mites are a royal pain - stay on top of cleaning your cricket cage and you should be just fine"

Corn meal is about all you need to raise mealworms,, maybe a bit of lettuce of something for moisture.

Soldier Ant returns! 10/10

Homemade Ecosystems, modern-day Lincoln to the crickets and superworms.

1:58 Well that's a first for you. Definitely need a refund for your "broken worms" 😆

10:52 "and instead of turning into a beautiful butterfly they turn into ugly ass bettles" 🤣

You are so funny. I love your deadpan delivery.

You can get rid of mites by spraying the enclosure with very diluted formic acid. The mites cant handle the acid as well as the insects can and this is also how some ants get rid of mites.

I used to watch you all the time and I never heard you talk this is kind of cool great video by the way

The one that peed on you mysteriously went missing...

Your deadpan delivery cracks me up 😂

2 videos deep and i am heavily invested in this guy's world.

"Nurture and feed" Hah I have a plastic container from an rotisserie chicken, I put oatmeal in it with the meal worms and some potato slices. I had to go and left this box for 2 months and they STILL survived. Tons of molts. So many worm shells... I wonder if the material is useful. Anyway there were still some living, and surprise hundreds of tiny worms (they must require less water and it must be beneficial for them to not grow quickly, without water available.) So I'm starting fresh with colony and giving them potatoes again. I don't even have a lizard now. Lol I bought them to feed a toad I caught last summer, before I released it.

MAJOR WORKER SOLDIER !!!!

Those mites look scary. Nice video!

Its always getting better and better

I just found your channel, and you’re hilarious, plus I love Ants, and lizards.

You always sound so chill and that’s what makes me like your videos you sound like nothing wrong happens and I think your a great RU-vidr because you care about bugs 🐛 🪳 🐞 and you care about crickets which is crazy but others don’t care so your the best

Absolutely in love with those 💯 jokes said with the most deadpan voice. It layers with the sarcasm like 👩‍🍳👌✨

I never feed my superworms or mealworms they just manage to thrive well until my reptiles eat them.

my mom used to have a mealworm farm and when they turned into beetles we put them on a platform above the mealworms and when they layed eggs the eggs would fall into the meal worms and hatch into mealworms

Just binged watched your entire channel. Awesome, loved it and your dry humour. Very funny.

You outdid yourself this time with the editing. Great job my man!

I love your videos, the monotone jokes are exactly my humor

Good to see u again❤

You've promised me Bob. You've delivered Bob, New Bob and New New Bob. 300% promises delivered. Nice.

Looking at those crickets gives me chills 😭😭

Thanks for the video!😊

"Ow, that little F---er bit me. I'm done with this video." 🤣

If I had a nickel for every RU-vidr I've seen who makes videos about homemade ecosystems while narrating everything that's happening in a monotone voice with an ambiguously European accent while making extensive use of dry humour, I would have two nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.

say hi to new Bob for me 3:22

I love you, fantastic content!

the worms aren't really eating the melon or foam, they are trying to hide, you can see they get underneath the cucumber. the wont sit still because they're trying to find cover

I love Bob.....

this was some okay content perfect for wasting my life and ruining my sleep schedule over just what i needed thanks

It's very strange how the " worms " didn't want to eat that cucumber; it's what they mainly eat.

1:50 The ones that appear on the video are called mealworms, super worms tend to eat slower

Great video!

As a reptile keeper. Your my favorite youtuber as of now 😂

This was unreasonably funny well done

always entertaining vids. thank you for sharing

new bob never to be seen again, honestly new bob might even start his own colony

Yeeeees I love this dude

>even Superworms refuse to eat cucumber Smart larvae.

Aww yiss! I was waiting for a new video :))

In grade three (Canadurp here) we had to raise some, ‘meal worms’ into their final beetle phase in a former tub of margarine filled with oats. We saw how they pupate and develop. Later on, I was able to identify them in the cornfeed on grandpas farm for the chickens. I was pretty angry that those selfish fuckers were eating the chickens food. Grandpa was chill and explained that the meal worms were like the marshmallows in lucky charms for the chickens. I ate one and realized that he was a bold faced liar.

Dang new video, that’s what’s up

I live for these videos

If you'd done this with mealworms, you would have had better luck. Superworms won't pupate near other superworms... 😅

Dunno why but ur voice makes me stay n listen lol

I like how nothing happens in this vid but its still entertaining regardless

The Circle of -Bob- Life 😂

i have pet mealworms but it took some time for them to become beetles

1:39 blud has broken worms 💀

Your so relatable :D love to you bro!

your videos are my favorite i swear -a stupid beetle

Unfortunately I don't watch these videos for info, I watch for the humor !! Keep it coming amigo!

You gave them beetle heaven and as such, they felt no rush to grow up

We had mealworms turn into beetles in our bird food. The crows loved them.

"I think my worms are broken" lmao

The only reason I clicked on this video, is the deal about meal/super worms turning into beetles. I’ve had to school my local pet store about NOT keeping them in the fridge! Almost all of the containers had beetles that took over! I told them that we the consumers of feeder worms do NOT want beetles, so “KEEP THEM IN THE DAMN FRIDGES”!!! Now, I have subscribed as not only was your video informative…it made me laugh👍💯🙏🏼🇨🇦

The Super-worms should be put in separate containers because the larvae with eat the pupae. If the Grain Mites Spread to your house plants the best way to kill them is to spray watered down Dish soap or Bubble Solution on the plants, I don't know exactly why it kills them but it works.

Three cheers for Bob, new Bob, new new Bob (rest in pieces) and Soldier Ant!

Ants : were really smart Baby ants in Singapore : *doesn't even avoid getting stepped on*

Good luck, New Bob!

I let mealworms loose in my crested gecko cage once, the problem was they burrowed under the substrate and none of em got eaten, they all turned to beetles and never got eaten, I had to get rid of them, not even fish wanted to eat em....