Live mealworms make an excellent, protein-rich food for small animals, reptiles, birds, and some types of fish. This premium bedding allows you to easily raise healthy, nutritious worms that will provide an excellent diet for you to feed to your animals. Mealworms reproduce easily, so if you feed and care for them properly, within a few months your pet will have a good supply of food that lasts indefinitely. This bedding is an excellent substrate for mealworms and superworms / super worms. This product is made from wheat bran milled in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in a locally owned mill and is 100% wheat bran with no added preservatives. It is coarse milled and ready to go as worm bedding. Instructions - In a metal or plastic pan a few inches deep place the bedding and worms, two parts bedding to one part worms. Refrigerate the container at approximately 50 degrees until ready for use. This product is 100% locally milled wheat bran.