Cricket Contamination

[Cliff43J]

Day 3 of setting up our cricket breeding experiment and whoops! We have some contamination. Fly larvae is my guess. Will crickets eat these? I cleaned out most of them, but not all. The container lid was on tightly, so I am guessing that the eggs were on or in something that we used as a food source. Thoughts?

UPDATE 9-24-25: Today I failed to find any of the fly larvae that were in the bin yesterday. I am assuming that the crickets made short work of them overnight. Now I find myself wishing that I had not removed most of them yesterday.

 

[acpart]

Fruit fly larvae seem to go along with crickets. I just ignore them. It's really important not to let the water crystals or other hydration mix with the cricket feed because then you get this slimy mush that fruit fly larvae love.

Aliza