Crickets bad?

[Red]

hi.

i heared in some webs that if you feed some species with crickets the females of this one turn in unfertile.

Is it true?

Why?

If you feed them with cockroaches also does it happen?

Regards

 

[Asa]

Completly false.

 

[Ian]

It is something along those lines. If you feed species such as the Gongylus, and I think the Idolomantis crickets, then it causes them problems when it comes to producing foam for the ootheca. (I think this is right...what Graham told me.)

However, I don't think it causes the actual eggs to be infertile.

 

[Morpheus uk]

Empusidae are usally the ones, what it is is that black crickets can carry a certain bacterial thing which is lethal to mantids on ocasion, but not always, pollinating flies are best feeder foods for more advance mantids like gonglyous and idolomantis which like ian said and yep thats right, read on a lot of places that it makes there genitals under developed :?

 

[Red]

whats black crickets? scientific name.

Acheta domestica is what i use

Ok.... so is best dont feed it with crickets, Though it is a lie

about other species of mantis, can be feed with crickets without problemS?

Regards

 

[OGIGA]

A varied diet is best. You can include crickets in that diet.

 

[Asa]

I've kept Idolomantis and Gongylus, and I have had no problems feeding them crickets. There is nothing wrong with any of the crickets at any of your stores.

 

[OGIGA]

There's something wrong with PetCo crickets. They keep killing people's mantises.

 

[Rick]

Not true.

 

[Precious]

You can't say that all crix are always safe, nor can you say that a particular retailer sells only bad crix unless you do a double blind study that gets published in a peer reviewed journal. Even then, you couldn't make such broad conclusions. Anything is possible. Death and taxes, nothing else is certain. Anecdotal evidence is frequently powerful stuff, but it's just silly to state, with such authority, that your experience makes you the cricketmeister and any other opinion is flatly wrong. I fed my mantid crix once that I feel certain made him ill. I fed him moths, discarded the crix, he got better and now he eats crix again. What does that prove? Nothing. I bet that altogether the people on this forum feed more crix, collectively, than any other food. They can't be all bad but they can't all be good. I can't believe I just wasted the time it took to write all of this.