MEALWORMS AND JUNEBUGS

This is still a huge work-in-progress, since this is a bit of a more long-term project that requires a bit more oversight than your average kombucha brew or garden. Inspired largely by a mixture of one of my beloved's infodumps about eating bugs, the Entomophagy episode of Ologies with Alie Ward, and the news story about mealworms being able to eat plastic.

Main goal;

• Yeah to be entirely honest. This is just to eat bugs.

Sub goals;

• Determine the best way to raise insects for a food supply. (Are june bugs or meal worms more nutritious? Does one of them have a benefit over the other?)
• Can mealworms live off of a diet of... 25% (? That seems like a good number) plastic and still be suitable for human consumption?

Supplies required for the june bugs;

• Small terrarium
• Cooking wine, buckwheat flour, and assorted other fruits and veggies. Will probably end up using garden scraps for part of their diet, but I really want to try a diet of mostly buckwheat flour and cooking wine to see if it actually affects the taste like it's supposed to.
• Actually woah okay. Doing more research on these guys and it turns out the "June beetles" in my area are actually Figeater beetles!. Which is a lot better because June bugs' larvae stage lasts for three years while Figeaters have a larvae stage that only lasts 5 months, which makes them much easier to breed (but means I'd have to eat them faster)