mealworm
noun
meal·worm
ˈmēl-ˌwərm 
: the larva of a darkling beetle (especially genus Tenebrio) that infests grain products but is often raised as food for insectivorous animals, for laboratory use, or as fishing bait
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Are live mealworms more (or less) likely to spread diseases amongst wild birds?
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Grrlscientist, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025
Packaged suet, cakes of beef fat mixed with seeds, corn meal, peanuts, mealworms, and other avian delicacies, is available commercially.
—George Petras, USA TODAY, 10 Jan. 2025
Holloway’s apartment building in Brooklyn Heights was vandalized last week with red paint with vandals leaving a box of crickets and mealworms and breaking the glass of the lobby door with a hammer, police said.
—Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 12 Aug. 2024
But on Thursday, four protesters returned several miles south of Columbia to vandalize an executive’s Brooklyn Heights home with red paint, leaving a box of crickets and mealworms and breaking the glass of the lobby door with a hammer.
—Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 10 Aug. 2024
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Grrlscientist, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025
Packaged suet, cakes of beef fat mixed with seeds, corn meal, peanuts, mealworms, and other avian delicacies, is available commercially.
—George Petras, USA TODAY, 10 Jan. 2025
Holloway’s apartment building in Brooklyn Heights was vandalized last week with red paint with vandals leaving a box of crickets and mealworms and breaking the glass of the lobby door with a hammer, police said.
—Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 12 Aug. 2024
But on Thursday, four protesters returned several miles south of Columbia to vandalize an executive’s Brooklyn Heights home with red paint, leaving a box of crickets and mealworms and breaking the glass of the lobby door with a hammer.
—Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 10 Aug. 2024
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mealworm
noun
meal·worm
-ˌwərm
: any of various small brownish larvae of various beetles that live in grain products and are often raised as food for insect-eating animals or as bait
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