White Cricket…wait Wat?

[SilverWolf]

So in the cricket container, I have the cilantro, carrot pieces and crickets. Medium to large sized crickets…so these chirping wings -.- ….

Now today, I noticed there is a pure white cricket…and it is also the largest cricket in the container. What does this mean exactly? Good, bad, neither? I am sure it is just molted but…I don't know it's just weird, I've never seen it before. Like another post I saw regarding this topic, they mentioned it is either female (first thought I had) or the anti christ, or both. Like I said, my thoughts exactly. I find it so peculiar because I found it in the morning. Then I opened it and was going to grab it but…it was gone. I searched, lifted up anything it could be hiding under, looked under the container it was just gone. And it was so big, how could it hide? Now several hours pass…it's night time and there it is! IT'S A GHOST!

So unless you have the ghost buster's number or can zap Luigi and his poltergeist via pixels (let me know if you get the reference) can you tell me what a white colored cricket means and if I should feed it to my 5 month old male jackson chameleon? I am just afraid it will be far too big for him. I will post a picture of, Tricky (the chameleon) AND the cricket when the sun rises.

 

[xcrystalx]

haha your post made me chuckle

After they molt, their exoskeleton is soft and white for a while. It will darken up as it hardens again.so all is fine and sure you can feed them to you cham.
my cham loves the white ones

 

[junglefries]

Freshly molted insects are best fed immediatedly. For starters, it is at it's easiest to digest stage. Second, after molting is when insects are most vulnerable. Crix are cannibalistic. So if they get hungry enough. This applies to: crix, superworms, mealworms, etc... plus chams seem to bat sh"@ crazy over white feeders. (i.e. silkworms and freshly molted superworms)

 

[SilverWolf]

Okay I'd feed it to him, but like I said, my chameleon is 5 months old, and not fully grown. He's just starting to get his green coloration. This cricket is abnormally large, I just don't want to give him something that is too big, no matter how soft it is. Do you think him chewing it before will be good enough though? Otherwise, I'll just gee t to the bearded dragon.