eurgh! Escaping bugs!

Amanda1801

Amanda1801

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HOOOOWWWW do you guys stop crickets and the like from escaping? I hate the damn things and keep finding them in my house!!

Amanda
 
cricket control

I have a Bull Terrier I put on escaped cricket control. She loves them! I highly suggest it!
 
welcome to chameleon ownership. i don't sweat a cricket here and there but any dubious and I am pretty sure I would be dead.:(
 
Two of my chihuahuas love an occasional cricket snack. I'm with Laurie-it's just gonna happen. I hide the bodies from my DH. I will never have roaches---shudder--disgusting things. Since I live in Arizona, roaches could take over the place. If they escaped I'd be divorced.
 
I know that some people leave some free ranged frogs in their basements for that matter! ;)

Here all the live insects are in plastic boxes high enough for them to not be able to escape!!
 
firedude said:
I have a Bull Terrier I put on escaped cricket control. She loves them! I highly suggest it!
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ha ha I have a jack russell, but I can't have him where I live at the moment so he's with my mum - maybe he could come and visit once a week and hoover them up!
 
If it's free range, I suggest the "Milk Jug" approach. If they are escaping from the bin, I suggest putting packaging tape all around inside the bin so they can't climb out.
 
There's a cricket that managed to get inside the wall in my bedroom and it has kept me up for the last 3 nights chirping incessantly! I don't mind finding the occasional cricket in the house, but they always manage to get in the places where I can't get to them like in the wall, behind the refrigerator, etc. Completely maddening, but thankfully they don't live that long in those places. Oh the joys of chameleon ownership...
 
My dog just watches them. She loves watching stuff. No help their. I haven't had very many cricket escapes at all lately. It's probably because I've been using other feeders (more than normal anyways.) I keep mine in a nice 10-20 gallon tub with minimal egg crate. They generally can't hop out of those things. When I do feed crickets now, the chameleons gobble them up immediately. I imagine seeing a hopping bug after mainly seeing skittering/flying/wormie-crawling bugs would be a great suprise.
 
ponders said:
I have a cat on cricket patrol. She does a great job, eats the crickets but only plays with the dubias:eek:
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I also have a cricket hunting cat...except he only plays with them for a while and then lets them go..so in essence he's kinda useless but entertaining :p
 
Someone needs to selectively breed crickets so that the males have to short wings or whatever to chirp! I bet they'd make some serious cash!
 
pssh said:
Someone needs to selectively breed crickets so that the males have to short wings or whatever to chirp! I bet they'd make some serious cash!
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OH! How about crickets that have no legs so they can't jump...similar to flightless fruit flies. Pssh you and I could be millionaires!! :):p
 
:D haha. Small legged crickets and short winged crickets! Put it together and you have good feeders! Well, unless you want the legs so that they can hop around and stimulate animals.
 
Amanda1801 said:
that means touching them! at the moment I kinda let them jump then bat them in the general direction I want them with the lid of the tub!
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Shake them into a plastic bag and you can remove their legs through the bag... it's a tad grisly but it's not like you touch the insect. Just hold its body through the bag with one hand and use the other to pull the legs off (again, through the bag).

It's rather creepy how much of a cricket can be removed and have it still crawling around...I've seen them lack pretty much everything past the front legs and still be "alive".
 
Elizadolots said:
Shake them into a plastic bag and you can remove their legs through the bag... it's a tad grisly but it's not like you touch the insect. Just hold its body through the bag with one hand and use the other to pull the legs off (again, through the bag).

It's rather creepy how much of a cricket can be removed and have it still crawling around...I've seen them lack pretty much everything past the front legs and still be "alive".
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Ewwwwww you'd be left with a whole bag of cricket parts...But, good for low fat snacks later on..LOL :p:)
 
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