Cricket Disasters

[sheepylizzy]

Please tell me yours!!!


Mine is that my new cat decided to tip over the container of crickets leaving them all over the kitchen floor, we caught alot but we thought there was alot more before.

 

[Mykey93]

The same thing happened to me, suprisingly enough they all stayed in their tubes and I assume the adventurous ones got hit by the kittens lol

 

[erik]

apparently some of the small crickets i got found their way out of their bin and were all across my room. But even more annoying: there is one adult cricket SOMEWHERE in my room, it chirps now and then. I can't find it anywhere and the only crickets i keep are smaller ones so this is probably a left-over from the last batch... ARGH!

 

[latshki]

at work we keep 5,000 in each bin and one night someone didn't cover them properly and most got as the netting used to cover the bin had fallen in giving them a ladder to climb out

 

[Tony C]

Our kitten tipped over a tub of 2000 crickets about a month ago.

 

[Pure]

Umm the worst was when I first set up my breeding colony. 1K crickets in a large bin. I didn't have enough ventilation. I only feed and water my bugs every other day. So feeding time came around....I opened the bin and it smelled of death! All but maybe 10 were dead.

Then there was the heat incident. We had a heat wave hit us. My crickets and everything else was outside. Fed everyone round 10AM before it got hot. Then round three, decided I better check in on them... Just about ever cricket and super worm was dead. I guess 100F+ is a lil too warm for common house crickets. There is a black species that is native to Florida, and are farmed for resale. I'm going to give them a go this summer to see if they can deal better.

 

[maximusx6910]

I was driving and i had just picked up more crickets, when suddenly my brother said he wanted to look at them. So he picked up the container to look at them and dropped the container in my truck upside down. I was swerving trying to tilt the cage back up b/c my brother was too small to lean over and get them. i decided not to take my brother when i get crickets anymore haha

 

[ReptarNDukeNukem]

I bought a 1000 crickets and stored them in a 20 gallon aquarium and some how they fell but I made a make-shift top so they did not get out but they jell-o water and their gutload feed was mixed and no one bothered to pick it up(it was during the summer) so it smelled like dog poop.

 

[sunshinegeckofarm]

crickets suck and they smell extremely bad when dead or alive. at least crickets will die eventually. we had our dogs knock over a bin with about 100 roaches in it and i sometimes still find live roaches in the room and catch them and put them in the bin again, and also had the dogs knock over superworms about 2k of them so i am finding random beetles too. chirping crickets dont bother me its kinda relaxing but im a country girl so im used to it, dont hear them as much here where i am now.

 

[WUMPUS]

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Don't remind me... One night we were feeding Wally and a few crickets somehow managed to escape and we caught them all... So we thought! Then about 2 or 3 AM my leg was hanging off the bed while sleeping and I felt something crawl on my leg, so me being half asleep swipes "something" off my leg, and I fall back asleep thinking nothing... Then, around 7 AM I stick my finger in my ear because I thought I felt something in there, thinking it was an avalanche of wax (we all sometimes get that... Don't lie! LOL) I pull out a cricket!!! I freak out, and throw it in with Wally so I can witness her have a flavorful treat!!! Evil, I know :main_evilgrin:

 

[maximusx6910]

Don't remind me... One night we were feeding Wally and a few crickets somehow managed to escape and we caught them all... So we thought! Then about 2 or 3 AM my leg was hanging off the bed while sleeping and I felt something crawl on my leg, so me being half asleep swipes "something" off my leg, and I fall back asleep thinking nothing... Then, around 7 AM I stick my finger in my ear because I thought I felt something in there, thinking it was an avalanche of wax (we all sometimes get that... Don't lie! LOL) I pull out a cricket!!! I freak out, and throw it in with Wally so I can witness her have a flavorful treat!!! Evil, I know :main_evilgrin:

Thats gross. haha but true. haha

 

[91eflx]

^ ewww thats horrible i stopped my bad story before it happened, i had bought some crix and left them in the plastic bag went back to feed some to mojo and notice that one of the crix had chewed a hole almost big enough for him to escape in the bag i was amazed, long story short i use mealworms

 

[Chupes]

Had just moved and didn't have my cricket container up and running yet. Left the crickets in the bag overnight on my mantle. The next day I'm sitting and I see a cricket hop across the floor, I look over to the mantle and see a bunch on the mantle. I check the bag and see that they had chewed their way through the bag and most of the 50 crickets had escaped. I had a nice hunting expedition that night, and continued to find them for the next week.

 

[Haligren]

Oh jeez! Well, back in the spring, I got a container of five week old crickets and not having a proper cricket carrier, I had a makeshift one out of a Becel margarine container with a hole cut into it. Over the hole I taped a piece of screen. Well, after a few days the duct tape started to come away from the plastic, and some got out then.

Then, after I had fixed that. The crickets began chewing through the screen. I thought it was a metal screen, but apparently it was plastic. More got out that way. We tried to catch any we could but I had to throw most of them out as I didn't know what they had been eating and didn't feel safe feeding them to my geckos.

I kept patching the screen, but they continued to find a way out. Finally, I cut a 2 litre pop bottle in half and stuck the top part on top of the open screen with more duct tape. Well the little buggers found their way out of that too. Apparently there were some openings where the duct tape didn't quite hold to the plastic. You'd think that duct tape would stick to just about anything. Well not plastic, I guess.

Finally I went out and bought a cricket keeper. Best $20 I ever spent! Whew! We were finding crickets for weeks after that. I didn't mind the chirping so much but it drove everyone else nuts. lol

 

[Allee Toler]

I was sleeping on the couch (It's my bed, I share an apartment) and I have the back of the couch backed up to my reptile area, the crickets are up against the back of the couch. I took the lid off, because I had no air holes, it was deep enough (2 feet) that they can't jump out. In my sleep I managed to knock on of my pillows up and over the couch, landing in the cricket tub with 300 .25" crickets and 200 medium crickets. I woke up from something crawling all over me, opened my eyes, turned on the light, and the WHOLE couch was covered in crickets. Lolololololololol.

So I ran into the bedroom, kicked one of my roomies out of his bed, and made him sleep in the livingroom so I can sleep in a cricket free zone. I even put towel under the door so they can't come in.

2 days later they all died, and I vacuumed them up.

Now my cricket tub has holes in it.

 

[Ehatcher]

Not enough ventilation in my cricket tub... lost 1000 crickets.

 

[Pure]

I had totally forgotten about this one. Like I mentioned earlier, I used to keep all my feeders outside. Well one of my cricket bins was a 60 gal tall tank..no lid as there was no way they could jump out of it. One morning I went to feed and water them and found this guy having the time of his life.

I guess he was hungry and the smell of all those crickets was too much to resist.

 

[acpart]

Three stories:

1. Back when I was getting 100 crickets a week in a cardboard tube through USPS I got the lid only in the mail in one of those plastic bags that the post office sends when your letter gets destroyed. I was imagining how the postal truck or sorting area looked with 100 crickets dancing around

2. The first time I ordered 1000 crickets, they came in a box that was a little too big to safely dump into the 10 gallon tank (this was before I knew enough to dump into a garbage bag and then into the tank. I upended the box into the tank and left to do some errands. When I got back my son told me he went into the kitchen and saw there was a cricket picnic party all over the floor so he just left. I picked up as many as I could. However, I live in the upstairs of a 2-family house. Luckily it was T'giving weekend and our tenants were out of town. Since I was feeding their cat, I'd go down twice a day and each time would pick up more crickets down there, including a bunch that somehow made it into the bathroom.

3. I ordered crickets for awhile from NH since it's near MA (RIP carlscrazycric ketfarm). One week the crickets didn't arrive as scheduled and it turned out they had gotten on the wrong truck and gone to Orlando. They arrived at my house 10 days later, mostly dead (ugh).

Aliza

 

[shadowdragon619]

i first kept my crickets in a cricket cage that just had mesh wire, like a cage used for putting the crickets in it for fishing....well, the little buggers can fit through the mesh. ugh! i lost 50. ( i only have on gecko, so yeah, i dont buy thousands at a time). and so i moved to my crickets to a ten gallon bucket. well, my german shepard and my mutt love to stick thier heads in the bucket and play with them. so i had to make a lid for them. and then one time my mom accidentally knocked over my bucket while vaccuming one day and vaccumed up my crickets!

 

[gitrdone0420]

I ordered crickets online one time and they came via ups next day- great, not a big deal. However we leave my dogs outside when we arent home because we have the invisible fence, and my youngest basset hound decided that he wanted to shred the box before I actually made it home. So upon arriving, I didnt find the box at the front door and I was worried. I thought that they should have been there by now.
But of course, I find the box shredded in the garage, crickets everywhere! I was not happy.