Mealworms are the larva of darkling beetles. Mealworms can be found throughout most of the world prefer warm, dark, and damp places like under decaying logs and leaves. These insects are an important part of the ecosystem. Their voracious eating habits aid in the decomposition and cleanup of unwanted organic matter. On the other hand, they are also an important food source of animal like birds, rodents, reptiles, spiders and other insects. Mealworms are a popular feeder insect for bearded dragons, bluebirds, fish, chicken and many other animals because of high in protein and fat. They are available live or pre-killed and dried. Dried mealworms are worms that quickly dried by microwave oven.

In China, mealworms farms export hundreds of thousands kilogram of mealworms to overseas. The worms would be dried then packed in the bags to sell to overseas. Most of those mealworms are dried by microwave dryer because of efficient and cost-effective.

Why mealworms farm use microwave technology dry mealworm?

1. Microwave dried worms typically float/puff which can make them a great treat for small animals.

2. Microwave dried worms retain much of their nutrients, last longer than live worms because microwave would pasteurize mealworms during the heating process.

3. The drying time would be shorter as it only spends on 12 minutes. It’s very efficient.

4. MAX Microwave is equipped with temperature sensor and timer to allow people operate simple well with final drying product result. We provide the accessories equipment like moisture fan, connecting pipe and other parts so our clients only need connect with power to start.

5. The machine is very compact that only takes less space to install and operate, and we customize different model machine that suits for small or big insect farms.

Apart from drying mealworm, MAX Industrial Microwave is also used for drying BSFL, crickets, super worms, grasshopper and other edible insects.