What happened to my mealworms?

[frogged]

I fed some mealworms a mixture of a calcium rich vegetable known as kailan and endives, and a few hours later the chomping mealworms curled up into little 'C' shapes and aren't quite moving about. What happened to them?

Bad batch of vegetables? Oxalate? Goitrogens? Too much calcium for the mealworms?

Enlighten me. So much for gutloading.

[NatureLady]

Are you feeding these to the treefrogs you posted about being skinny?

[frogged]

Are you feeding these to the treefrogs you posted about being skinny?

No. This thread was more of a sudden experiment I tried yesterday.

[NatureLady]

LOL. I have no idea. I usually gut load mine with random veggies and then just dust them with vitamins before I feed mine.

[toxxxickitten]

When mealworms curl up into a 'C' and don't move much they are about to pupate and then turn into beetles.

[frogged]

When mealworms curl up into a 'C' and don't move much they are about to pupate and then turn into beetles.

They were all of variable sizes, small and large. So I think this is unlikely.