Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/04/21/how-long-does-it-take-for-worm.html
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That took considerably longer than I expected.
In my prime I could have done for that meal in under 15 minutes
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How long would it take two chickens to eat those meal worms? Just curious.
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And then how long would it take a Big Mac and fries to eat those chickens?
It’s the ciiiiiiiiiiiiiiiircle of liiiiiiiiiiife…
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Big Mac Combo Meal(worms)™
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yum
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Skimming through headlines, my brain originally saw “How long does it take WOLVES…”. I’d guess considerable less time than this, but maybe I need some science to test my assumptions?
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Considering that I’ve seen the barely decayed remnants of a long-forgotten MCD’s meal in a derelict apartment that we were tasked with cleaning out after more than a year of total vacancy, I’m surprised that the mealworms ate it all.
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Obviously they super-sized their mealworms order.
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I think having that pre-existing critical mass of worms was key - they could eat it before it became inedibly dried out.
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How long does it take for worms to scarf down a Big Mac and fries?
Except that’s not what this is.
How long does it take for beetles to scarf down a Big Mac and fries?
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I haven’t watched the video, but I don’t see the point—I’m sure a single Big Mac is no match for the entire German city of Worms!
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I would rather eat the worms than McD’s any day.
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In my experience with owning a lot of chickens the definitive answer it “it depends.”
I’ve given my chickens a double-handful of big fat worms and they’ve scampered over, pecked at one or two, and then walked away, leaving every worm to escape. Other times the worms last a few seconds. There’s no telling. Dumbest animals on the green earth. Aside from turkeys.
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Isn’t that animal abuse?
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<very pedant voice> They’re not beetles yet. </vpv>
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How not? Larval beetles are still beetles. If they’re not beetles, what are they?
That’s awful. He must not love his worms very much.
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Eh, drying is an ancient method of food preservation. It works on hamburgers just fine, if they’re not too [forbidden word for humidity] to begin with. Nothing untoward about it.
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They’re beetle larvae, clearly.
There’s nothing wrong with calling mealworms “worms” in this context because we’re not submitting this paper to Journal of Entomology. Is a beetle larva a beetle or not? Is a caterpillar a butterfly? Depends on exactly how you need your hairs split.
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