I ATE A EFFING MINICRICKET!!!!!!

[MingMing]

I thought this would NEVER happend to me... Having and insect in my mouth and knowing it is alive and swallowing it... The story starts with me (totally unexperienced) trying to use a "sucker" -a lil tube with a sponge at the end so I could suck up the insects and then just release them on each mantis case- Well, I feed 30 mantis pretty succesfully, only had to feed 80 more babies, so, I felt confident abut my "strategy" to feed them I opened 3 cages at the same time, sucking up crickets and relieving 5 in each.

When I sucked the -sucker- and well, I ended up swallowing the sponge, dust, dirt and one cricket (There were more than 3 crickets in the tube but I want to keep it positive and think I just swallowed one :s It was disgusting, I washed my mouth like 5 times, I tried to vomit, It was terrible.

Im sure I ve had eaten insects before but without noticing ( I used to be in the girsls scouts and do camping trips for a week, but knowing I just ate a livin microcriket that poo more insects or that are normally raised in ###### is just seriously disturbing.

Im not planning on repeating the "experience" unless I have nothing else to eat, Im left alone on an island with no other protein source and Im aware I have to eat them to survive.

D:

 

[ABbuggin]

You'll be fine.

 

[hibiscusmile]

yahhaahhaa! evil woman! what are the babies going to eat now!

 

[PhilinYuma]

Haha! They say, "you are what you eat," so if you start chirping and hopping around, soon, just be sure your mom doesn't swat you!!

A day or two ago, I mentioned that the same thing had happened to me when I was a kid, but who believes an old guy telling childhood stories? You've proven that it was true!

Rick's suggestion of putting a tube in the container so that the crix will crawl into it works well fine me, but for "minicrickets, you may want to roll up cyllinders of thin carboard or stiff paper and glue them to the width you want. Then pull them out and dump them in the pot. Your method sounds really labor intensive! When do you think that you'll have enough fruit flies to go round?

 

[Giosan]

Grose!!!! That is terrible hahaha

 

[agent A]

I think I'm gonna...-bleh ah ah behhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Chunk chunk puhh. (Heavy breathing) :wacko:

 

[Katnapper]

Egads, ming ming!! Euuk.... Well, look on the bright side... at least it wasn't a full grown one! :blink:

 

[Rick]

There are far easier ways to transfer feeders than that but I nobody ever wants to listen so I'm not gonna go over it again. If that grosses you guys out I won't mention some of the stuff I have eaten.

 

[cloud jaguar]

Yucky! Well at least you did not eat cricket poop! Also, if anyone eats peanutbutter, a surprisingly large % of its volume is made of insects! yumm

 

[revmdn]

I'd be concerned about passing that sponge.

 

[MingMing]

Haha! They say, "you are what you eat," so if you start chirping and hopping around, soon, just be sure your mom doesn't swat you!!A day or two ago, I mentioned that the same thing had happened to me when I was a kid, but who believes an old guy telling childhood stories? You've proven that it was true!

Rick's suggestion of putting a tube in the container so that the crix will crawl into it works well fine me, but for "minicrickets, you may want to roll up cyllinders of thin carboard or stiff paper and glue them to the width you want. Then pull them out and dump them in the pot. Your method sounds really labor intensive! When do you think that you'll have enough fruit flies to go round?

MOST TRAUMATIC EXPERIENCE EVER!

There are far easier ways to transfer feeders than that but I nobody ever wants to listen so I'm not gonna go over it again. If that grosses you guys out I won't mention some of the stuff I have eaten.

Oh I dont mind eating weird food, snakes, turtles, frog legs... but COOKED not fresh and alive

Yucky! Well at least you did not eat cricket poop! Also, if anyone eats peanutbutter, a surprisingly large % of its volume is made of insects! yumm

I hope I didnt... I mean it also tasted like dirt and dust and just dirt in general, so im REALLY hoping there was no residual waste in there...

I'd be concerned about passing that sponge.

Lol... well Hope its better than Activia

 

[OGIGA]

The sponge sounds a lot worse than the cricket. I mean, come on, crickets aren't bad for food!

 

[a1_collection]

That's nothing. I have ate worst. :lol:

 

[hibiscusmile]

surely we all have, but the sponge, I dont know!

 

[Katnapper]

Yucky! Well at least you did not eat cricket poop! Also, if anyone eats peanutbutter, a surprisingly large % of its volume is made of insects! yumm

Arkanis, I did NOT want to hear that!!! :huh:

ming ming... you'll have to let us know that the sponge left safely! :lol:

 

[revmdn]

Kat, I bet there is less bugs in Nutella than in peanutbutter. Come on, you know you want to.

 

[ABbuggin]

Not sure how many people would like to hear this, but I'm posting it anyway. An average person in their lifetime will eat about one pound of insects accidentally. B) Also, where do you guys think most of the red dye for clothing comes from............

 

[OGIGA]

Haha, I wouldn't mind purposely eating bugs. It just has to actually be a dish.

 

[MingMing]

Not sure how many people would like to hear this, but I'm posting it anyway. An average person in their lifetime will eat about one pound of insects accidentally. B) Also, where do you guys think most of the red dye for clothing comes from............

I heard that somewhere also, an average person eats 200 insects in a lifetime accidentaly, my point is, you dont REALISE youre eating an insect, and so, youre brain is not aware or it, but when you know you just swallowed an insect, at least my brain, freaks out..... I can handle almost everything, the pain is in your head, im not afraid of heighs, Im not scared of spiders, rats, snakes or even venenous frogs, I just cant stand 2 things: 1.- flying coackroaches from north Mexico or 2.- living beings in my mouth.