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Posted by: phwyvern at Thu Jul 27 16:43:30 2006   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by phwyvern ]  
   

>>Another vote for reptilefood.com Quick with the order, cheaper than the others (I've done quite a bit of comparisons), very clean insects. Had one issue with one shipment and they replaced the orders!
>>Have to relay a problem I had with another west coast dealer. We received the order (5000 adult crickets). Half were dead. I live in Wisconsin but they were shipped when the weather was in the 60-70 range. We also found about 25% of the crickets to be 1/4" size. There was quite a number of extra 'travelers' with this batch as well, including some type of inch long black beetle, about a dozen quarter-sized spiders, and finally a few cockroaches (and not the non-climbing type!). All extras were quickly destroyed. However, needless to say, I was very hesitant to reach into the cricket containers to retieve a bunch for feeding after seeing those spiders!!!


The beetles (or the fuzzy larvae) are dermestid beetles. The larvae are actually edible if your lizards are willing to chow down the fuzzy things. Dermestids are scavengers and no matter what cricket company you ever go with, chances are you will run into them at some point or another....they like to eat dead crickets. The adult beetles can fly so it's hard to get rid of them all to keep from reproducing. The spiders eh.. haven't been able to ID them yet, but they are not recluses... again, regardless of supplier, there is a chance of running into them. They like to live in the egg crates and of course eat crickets.
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