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Mealworms Lab Report

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If I had a chance to do any of these experiments again, I would choose to go more into depth for the dampness experiment. I would hold the experiment for a longer time period so that I can prove that if the mealworms were allowed to remain on the damp surface for excessive amount of time, the amount of dampness would become harmful to the mealworms as their bodies might start to rot and get infected. If I were to do the food experiment again, I would worms in the soil before putting the food into the container. I would do this because when I gave the worms a thin slice of apple (not part of experiment), they all came up to the surface of the soil to eat the apple. I could tell that the worms ate the apple because on the next day, only the skin

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