Insect Lore Beetle Barn

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We put mealworms in our reptile cage. Not all of them were eaten. Some of them apparently pupated and surprise, a few weeks later we had a bunch of black beetles in the cage. They're fun to watch and they clean the cage but don't spend $50 on this nonsense. All you need is a cage, some mealworms, some sort of food. Petsmart & Petco sell bug food with the reptile stuff.

This little barn does what it's supposed to do, if you do what you're supposed to do. We used it in a classroom to watch the life cycle of a mealworm and the kids loved it!

My son got this for his fourth birthday and it was a huge hit! Not only did he love "taking care" of the beetles at their various life stages, but he also learned a ton. Playing outside this spring (nearly a year later) he found a beetle pupa in the soil and proudly showed it to me and announced what it was.One note of caution - young children shouldn't do the transporting of the Bug Barn from point A to B, because it can be taken apart from the base. This helps with cleaning when you're all done, but can lead to a mess of spilled bran if bumped really hard (the onlooking two-yr old taught us that!).