Henry Bell Dried Mealworms Wild Bird Food 500g

Henry Bell Dried Mealworms – 500g

Five hundred grams of dried mealworm and nothing else in the bag. At 51.3% crude protein and 31.31% oil this is the richest single food Henry Bell make by a wide margin, and it is the one thing that will reliably bring a garden robin down to within a metre of you.

Dried worms keep for months in a sealed tub, which is the whole argument for them over live ones. A 500g bag goes further than the weight suggests, because you offer mealworms by the handful as a top-up rather than filling a feeder with them.

Performance & Benefits

• One ingredient: dried mealworm.
• Crude protein 51.3%, crude fat 31.31%, crude fibre 5.2%, crude ash 3.3% — Henry Bell's own declared figures.
• Protein for winter survival, and for adults feeding nestlings in spring.
• Offer on the ground, from a bird table or in a mealworm feeder.
• Stores dry, unlike live worms, which need refrigerating and using up.
• Henry Bell also bag mealworms in 100g and 1kg.

Suitable For

• Robins above all, and also starlings, blackbirds, nuthatches, blue tits, tree sparrows, song thrushes, wrens and great spotted woodpeckers.
• Spring and early summer, when parent birds are hunting insects for chicks.
• Hand-taming a garden robin.
• Ground and table feeding as much as tube feeders.
• Not an everyday staple on its own — it is a protein top-up. Henry Bell No Mess Mix is the mix to run alongside it.

Feeding

• Offer a small handful at a time on the ground, a bird table or in a mealworm feeder.
• Soak the worms in warm water for ten minutes in spring and summer before putting them out, so nestlings are not fed something completely dry.
• Feed all year, keeping to a routine once you have started.
• Clear away any that have been rained on rather than leaving them to spoil.
• Keep fresh, clean water available for drinking and bathing.

Composition & Analysis

• Composition: dried mealworm.
• Crude protein 51.3%. Crude fibre 5.2%. Crude fat 31.31%. Crude ash 3.3%.
• 500g bag. Henry Bell product code H060016.
• These are Henry Bell's declared analytical constituents, taken from their own listing.

Care & Caution

• Soak dried mealworms before offering them during the breeding season. Fed dry to nestlings they can dehydrate a chick.
• Put out only what will be eaten in a day or two. Damp mealworms spoil quickly, and mouldy feed spreads disease through a feeding station.