Get Mealworms for Your Garden Birds

Birds will flock to your garden when they are provided with the tastiest treats from your bird feeder. One great treat for all types of birds is dried mealworms, which are ideal for robins and tits who consider it their favorite.

There are two main ways of using mealworms in your feeders. The first way is to sprinkle them on a feeding tray as they are, dried and crunchy for your birds to eat. This also allows you to mix the mealworms with other types of bird feed, such as sunflower hearts. The birds will enjoy the variety and keep on visiting for more.

The second option is to hydrate the mealworms in some warm water to make them succulent for your garden birds. You may not be able to mix them with bird seeds, but the birds will surely enjoy them nonetheless. Place the dried worms in warm water for just a few minutes, then place them in your feeder and watch the birds gather in your garden.

Mealworms are not only delicious for your birds, but they are also high in protein and are great for the winter or nesting times. They are safe, natural and easy to use for garden birds that come to your home.

To attract different birds to your home, you can choose to combine standard and mini mealworms, which are larger and smaller mealworms respectively. This way, you can allow for small birds to get their fill of the delicious worms because they can pick out the small ones from the feeder or from the ground. When you consider this, you will also have less of a mess underneath your bird tables when you allow smaller birds to pick their mealworms from the ground below the feeders.

Remember to get a scrapper to clean your feeding trays especially when you opt to hydrate the mealworms. They will tend to stick to the surface of the tray, but this should not trouble you. There are specially designed scrappers that scrape off the mealworms from your feeding tables so that you can provide your garden birds a clean surface to eat from every time.