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mealworms. dwarf or hybrid or something. took some pics

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Today I noticed that one of my mealworm bins had quite a few small beetles. Then I found 3 that are super tiny. I'm not sure if the littlest ones are another species(not sure how more then one would have accidentally got in there) and they hybridized with the regular ones. Or if its a dwarf/super dwarf thing or what. I'm thinking its the 2nd options because they look like tiny mealworms beetles to me. Even little details, like the almost unseeable ridges down a mealworms wings are still there on the little ones.

I can't think of a possible reason to push for little tiny mealworms sense the worms of regular sized ones already start out microscopic. But still thought it was kinda interesting, so I separated the 3 tiny ones and put them in a little mini culture for the heck of it.

first picture shows a good 1 2 3 shot of the 3 sizes lined up in the bottom center.

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My monitor here is about shot and pics on it are quite a bit darker than they should be so I can't see the detail that is most likely there. They look like they might be dermestid beetles to me though.
They are commonly found in insect shipments and occasionally show up in closed colonies.
Usually they are introduced from a cricket shipment though.
 
looking those beetles up on google they do look like that, but they also look like little mealworm beetles, although the worms look way different and I didn't see any of those(not suprizing though). I found another one in a different bin now. I mix things though sometimes, so I'm not sure if that means much. I seem to have a lot of the medium to small beetles in some bins. Maybe I should try breeding for size for a while.
 
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