locust/grasshoper?

[veiledchamguy]

I was wondering if a locusts/grasshoper could be potentially harmful if fed?

 

[lbesok]

I believe that the green ones and plain brown grasshopper are alright to use, it's the more colorful ones that you have to worry about, like red, yellow, or orange. It's important to get them from a place that isn't sprayed with pesticides. Some people choose to catch them and then try to breed them to eliminate the potential parasite possibility.

 

[TreelionsUK]

We feed yellow locust all the time they are a great feeder,trying to breed some at the moment,as they are costing me loads
Have some adults in my breeding bin,and have seen them mating.i dont feed off the adults,they are fed off before they get there full wings
they gutload really well as they dont stop eating!!!

 

[tryme]

''Yellow'' locusts are desert locust and actually change colour as they age.

 

[veiledchamguy]

Wow didnt expect pictures but thanks alot man!

 

[TreelionsUK]

Wow didnt expect pictures but thanks alot man!

No worries man,I spotted a hole that a female had made today so hopefully shes laying some eggs!!

 

[FooL111394]

Is it easy to breed them is it like breeding crickets??

 

[TreelionsUK]

Is it easy to breed them is it like breeding crickets??

Yeah basicly mate just like crickets,only everything is a bit bigger,and the temps need to be hot mine are at 35 all the time

 

[FooL111394]

thanks for the info

 

[lbesok]

Are their locust in the US? Any who, this is the poisonous hopper that I was referring to that resides in the southern US:

 

[stucoady]

Mine wont touch crix ever since they were introduced to locusts.

 

[veiledchamguy]

Are their locust in the US? Any who, this is the poisonous hopper that I was referring to that resides in the southern US:

Thanks for the pic Lb!

Yeah I live in a valley with alot of farming so there is alot of these suckers floating around and many many different colours I was thinking to just steer clear of them

 

[tryme]

Locusts are huge pests in the U.S I hear..It's always on the T.V in the U.K.

 

[Rocky]

lol well i've never seen it on tv that they are pests but you can hear them if you go camping or something I dont know how to catch them, but they are the ones that leave the weird looking shells on trees.

 

[FooL111394]

Those are called cicadas not locustsXD

The shell

The bug

 

[TreelionsUK]

Are their locust in the US? Any who, this is the poisonous hopper that I was referring to that resides in the southern US:

Wow! they look a bit toxic dont they!! as said the ones we use are african locusts

 

[TreelionsUK]

Those are called cicadas not locustsXD

The shell

The bug

Cheers for the pic,they look like great food.
I saw an programme with those on and they emerge only once every 17 years or somthing like that according to the prog