Crickets everywhere!!!!!

[Kittiekins]

So I got around 400 crickets the other day and I started gut loading them as soon as I got them home. Came back from work today and they are out and running around! A large amount of them made it to my chameleons cage (I normally keep all the feeders on the shelf next to her), nibbling on some watermelon I gave her before left to work. 1/4th of them are dead on my floor(Thank you cats!) and the other 4th is still running around the apartment... I guess this is why I can't have nice things):

Loco is pretty happy though, pigging out on all the crickets that crawled into her cage.

 

[carol5208]

How did they get inside the cage?

 

[mabrams]

That is some funny stuff right there

 

[Anniel]

Crickets Loose in the car!

A couple of days ago on the way home from buying crickets, the cricket keeper tipped over and at least a dozen got loose in my car!! I pulled over to get them and they had disappeared!! Vacuumed my car and never found them! I was so creeped out!
I feel for ya!!

 

[Kittiekins]

How did they get inside the cage?

The bottom of my cage has a slit in the screen, not nearly big enough for her to ever go though, and the pieces of water melon that dropped the crickets I guess decided to hop on over to that side of the table and start nibbling away. Thankfully the watermelon acted as a great distraction to trap them back into the keeper.

 

[fleetwoodchams]

I have gotten so used to the cricket sound that I don't hear it anymore.
My son and his girlfriend say it's sounds like they are camping when they come into my office. Go figure.

Doesn't everybody have 8+ chameleons and 1000 crickets in their office? Or is it just me. LOL

 

[JimO]

I know this sounds crazy, but crickets seem to be attracted to power strips. When they get loose, I find many of them huddled around the power strip that all my computer components are plugged in to. It makes it easier to catch them.

 

[ridgebax1]

If I don't have at least a dozen escapees when I transfer crickets from the shipping carton to the bins, I wouldn't know how to act! I also usually have one or two escape when putting them into the dusting cup. My cats usually take care of them but not always. It's supposed to be good luck to have crickets in your house.

 

[Kittiekins]

I have gotten so used to the cricket sound that I don't hear it anymore.
My son and his girlfriend say it's sounds like they are camping when they come into my office. Go figure.

Doesn't everybody have 8+ chameleons and 1000 crickets in their office? Or is it just me. LOL

That's what I told my boyfriend. Haha. And with my cats waterfall bowl, and fish tank, we are camping just leave the windows open for that cold breeze

 

[Carlton]

Don't feel bad. I had a large dubia roach colony in a truck box tote high on a shelf over my water heater. The colony was overdue for a culling and clean out, when sometime during the night the tote managed to fall off the shelf. There were probably thousands of nymphs of all sizes and a couple hundred adults who had the whole night to explore my house. Just why did the tote leap off the shelf all by itself? My theory still is that the colony held a dance for some unknown roachy reason. I was finding dead and dying roaches for months afterward. Thank goodness I live in Alaska where it gets too cold in winter for dubia to survive!

 

[fleetwoodchams]

Don't feel bad. I had a large dubia roach colony in a truck box tote high on a shelf over my water heater. The colony was overdue for a culling and clean out, when sometime during the night the tote managed to fall off the shelf. There were probably thousands of nymphs of all sizes and a couple hundred adults who had the whole night to explore my house. Just why did the tote leap off the shelf all by itself? My theory still is that the colony held a dance for some unknown roachy reason. I was finding dead and dying roaches for months afterward. Thank goodness I live in Alaska where it gets too cold in winter for dubia to survive!

This is why I don't get Dubia. I am afraid of escapees in the house Eeeeeeeh

 

[fleetwoodchams]

That's what I told my boyfriend. Haha. And with my cats waterfall bowl, and fish tank, we are camping just leave the windows open for that cold breeze

I feel like eating Smores for some reason? LOL

 

[jazif2]

eek

I am going to start ordering crickets in bulk... in addition I would admit im a bit ODC this is my fear lol

 

[dnallivah]

I've decided my crickets have become institutionalized. They sometimes manage to escape their prison - the cricket keeper - and realize they just can't handle life on the outside. They know they don't want to go back in, so they look for a way out. A cup of water seems to be their favorite way to end it all.

Every now and then I'll find one attempting to make a life for himself in a random orange bucket in my kids room...but mostly just poor Jiminy Cricket who took a dive on the deep side.