What can I do with Crickets?

doodle-bug_2

Thanks for the recipe, DKLS! Mmmm, crunchy!

I've looked them up on the internet, they are Brown Crickets. And mine are silent, so I don't even hear their chirping!

It seems that they are not long lived, so have decided to do the stupid thing and keep them until their time is up. I have an old aquarium that they can go in for a few weeks (hopefully that should then be 'it').

I've been feeding them all sorts of things, and the little critters are very fat and happy - the cat knocked the lid off them the other night, and they didn't go anywhere!

Won't be getting any more or looking after any more spiders either!

clutterydrawer

doodle-bug wrote: »

I didn't want to 'zap' them, hence the question. Or take them back to the shop (who gave me them for free in the first place as 'lots of 'em are dead anyway' after a severe box shaking).

I understand the native species thing (although look at what we'd be if we took that stance in everything - Lost Gardens of Heligan would be a pile of daisies and ivy!) and I understand that they are 'just crickets', but........

I'm certainly not going to look after his damn spider again!

Maybe that would be for the best, seeing as introducing rhododenrons (for example) to britain has also introduced phytophthora disease which is destroying natural habitats, particularly scottish moorlands. oh and it's not treatable.

It's done now, but there's no point adding to it. Anyway I'm glad the crickets will get to live out their lives with you

dianetheartist

lets hope they dont breed in the meantime!

the_devil_made_me_do_it

doodle-bug, big thumbs up to you for giving these little creatures a litlle taste of life. I have to admit, I would be doing the same thing as you & probably getting grief for doing so

emmzy

Send them to me and I can feed them to one of my lot

doodle-bug_2

Yes - let's hope they don't breed!
Every pet I own seems to live for ever! I've a rabbit over 10, a cockatiel over 25, a weird tropical fish that's over 8 years old - I read on the internet that crickets only lived a few weeks. Yeah, right.

emmzy - not a chance!

jonathon

DKLS wrote: »

They are very tasty stir fried with satay sauce.

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:I just spit tea all over my keyboard