How to Use mealworm in a Sentence

mealworm

noun
  • Small pieces of garden worms get the call as do mealworms at this time.
    — Jim Gronaw, Baltimore Sun, 2 July 2023
  • Are live mealworms more (or less) likely to spread diseases amongst wild birds?
    — Grrlscientist, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Fill this toy with treats, like scratch or mealworms, and watch as your chickens roll it around to get the goods.
    — Katie Bowlby, Country Living, 12 July 2023
  • Tipping jogs with half of a wax or mealworm has been productive.
    — Colorado Parks & Wildlife, The Denver Post, 26 Feb. 2017
  • The males could then offer either a single mealworm or moth through the screen as a gift.
    — Brandon Keim, WIRED, 4 Feb. 2013
  • Use a tray or dish-style feeder to provide mealworms to your bluebirds.
    — Abby Fribush, Southern Living, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Living, juicy mealworms are known to be a top choice for bluebirds feeding their young as well.
    — Kj Callihan, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Oct. 2022
  • Spiders need live prey like tiny mealworms, cockroaches and fruit flies.
    — Alina Hartounian, NPR, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Bluebirds gravitate toward suet cakes, and there are even some with mealworms mixed in.
    — Abby Fribush, Southern Living, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Inside the second box, a thousand mealworms wriggled over an egg crate.
    — Jason Plautz, Ars Technica, 28 Nov. 2019
  • In the puzzles, sliding the door to the left or right would reveal a delicious tray of mealworms.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Cows requires ten times as much feed and much more water to produce a pound of protein compared to mealworms.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 12 Jan. 2017
  • The jig, spiced with a mealworm, was perhaps 16 feet beneath her, just above the lake's bottom.
    — John Perritano, Popular Mechanics, 22 Dec. 2020
  • The squirrel monkeys were tested with mealworms and were fooled 93 percent of the time.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Last weekend, the center ran out, and volunteers scoured pet stores all over the city and rounded up three dozen mealworm tubs.
    — Jeffery Jones, National Geographic, 8 Oct. 2020
  • As the clock ticks on, the creatures get worse and worse, with cockroaches, crickets, and mealworms being poured over their heads.
    — Tom Smyth, Vulture, 6 Feb. 2025
  • Proposals to put manatees or mealworms on the food pyramid would face challenges.
    — David Merritt Johns, The Atlantic, 27 June 2026
  • But will people accept bug burgers and Neatballs that include ground mealworms?
    — refinery29.com, 18 Mar. 2018
  • Live pets, including ferrets, guinea pigs, some snakes and reptiles, sit next to parakeets, crickets and mealworms.
    — Hank Beckman, Chicago Tribune, 9 June 2023
  • To make sure the mealworm project would work, Rebecca and her family tested growing them in their own home.
    — Scott Luxor, sun-sentinel.com, 19 Aug. 2021
  • In Australia, dogs can chow down on pumpkin and mealworm biscuits made by Buggy Bix.
    — Matt Reynolds, Wired, 15 Feb. 2022
  • Scientists looking for ways to fight the pollution problem are now finding that mealworms might be useful in the process.
    — Erin Corbett, Fortune, 27 May 2018
  • The protein-rich, low-fat bugs are a nutritious alternative to crickets or mealworms.
    — Kate Armanini, Chicago Tribune, 15 June 2024
  • If the number of calls correctly corresponded to the number cue, the crows would get a tasty mealworm or birdseed pellets as a prize.
    — Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 23 May 2024
  • One of the most advanced mealworm-raising enterprises is run by Ynsect, a French firm.
    — The Economist, 4 July 2019
  • Anglers have reported catching trout using jigs tipped with wax and mealworms and PowerBait.
    — Colorado Parks & Wildlife, The Denver Post, 26 Feb. 2017
  • The yellow mealworm and lesser mealworm also topped the list, while crickets and grasshoppers were the fast-growing insect type segment.
    — Teresa Mull, FOXNews.com, 15 June 2026
  • The experiment showed the corvids could quickly piece together how to ditch birds from the other group in order to maximize mealworms.
    — Tara Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Oct. 2023
  • Further research has now isolated the plastic-eating bacteria found in the mealworms' guts and grown them outside of the mealworm.
    — Ed Scott-Clarke; Story By Tom Page, CNN, 10 Sep. 2020
  • As the insects grow, the Beta Hatch team removes the frass the mealworms produce, and replenishes their food.
    — Kara Carlson, The Seattle Times, 22 June 2017

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