Crickets Help!!!!!

[more_rayne]

Crickets can be vicious. I used to raise crickets and I'd put a knocked out green bottle fly in there. The cricket would grab it and run off with it because other crickets also wanted a bite.

 

[hibiscusmile]

Tsk, tsk, tsk, bad cricks!

 

[Chief Tom]

I wouldn't feed it roaches or flies they carry worms. I would stay with crickets, it was just a fluke what happened.

 

[lancaster1313]

Crickets can also carry worms, I have seen a video of a huge one emerging from a crickets abdomen. Mantids can also carry the same kind, I think its called a horsehair worm. I would still feed crickets to my mantid, if they are well cared for.

 

[LauraMG]

Crickets are disgusting little creatures, but, if you give them a little something to chew on, like chopping up a fresh baby carrot and throwing it in there, they tend not to go for mantids or cannibalize. I think they're gross and I don't want to feed them to my Chinese, but I have to until I can get some other kind of feeder insect colony going. Sorry you had one become their prey