Bug Out! Mealworms Are for the Birds

Many birds eat insects naturally, so feeding dried mealworms to the birds is a natural thing to do. Almost 80% of the worlds bird families include insects in their diet. Offering mealworms is a fun way to attract insect eating birds to your backyard oasis. You’ll enjoy watching birds such as roadrunners, Say's Phoebes, chickadees, bluebirds, wrens, towhees, woodpeckers, robins, catbirds, nuthatches, thrashers and others devour these mouthwatering morsels! A Red-breasted Nuthatch was seen taking mealworms from a feeder and caching them at a rate of three per minute.

Mealworms are a great way to attract birds that don’t ordinarily come to seed feeders.

Think Greater Roadrunners! Did you know? The Greater Roadrunner (Geococcyx californianus) is the state bird of New Mexico. Beep beep!