So at week 10 you might get 1.2kg, at week 12 you get 1.5kg, and week 14 you get 1.8kg. Note the kg/tray you get per tray increase with age (hence why the range). Some 10-12 weeks later this would generate 5 trays of mealworms with 1.3-1.6kg in each tray. So lets say you had 5 trays of high density beetles running, they would generate 5 trays of eggs/substrate per week (using the filtering method outlined in our mealworm book). So the 1.3- 1.6kg is what each tray would get when you had 1 tray of very high density beetles. The High density described above provides a good balance between growth rates and space efficiency. High densities have faster grown rates (but takes up more space) and range from 1.1- 1.2kg (2.4-2.6 lb).This is the upper end of weights which have slower or reduced growth rates. When using a very high Densities with climate control you can achieve between 1.3-1.6 kg (2.9-3.5 lb) per tray.For instance worms in high density may obtain more biomass in a tray for a given time period, however it will take longer for those worms to mature (due to stress and resource availability). Production from a tray is variable and dependent on: worm density, when you harvest (medium/large or overcooked worms), temperature and diet.
In this space you can fit approximately 100 trays of which trays are non production and related to the breeding cycle (10-15%). We have used this size as the example as its a common room size or half a 6m (20 foot) caravan or half a shipping container (shipping container is higher). For benchmarking purposes we will describe the production rate from 2.4m wide by 3m long by 2m high space (7.8 by 9.8 by 6.6 feet).Our farm uses 60 cm by 40 cm by 12 cm trays (24 by 16 by 5 inches), in a climatically controlled environment.Large Scale Mealworm Production (Commercial)īelow is an estimate of yellow and giant mealworm production rates for a 100 tray system.
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