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I took bob to the vet today as he was still not eating well and had runny stools. I managed to salvage a bit of his stoll to take to the vet and I am glad i did, turns out he has pin worms and he does not like the vet very well, when he got the chance to make a run for it he did! he tryed hideing behind a small card rack!
Bob is on meds for the next 4 days to hopefuly get him to feel better
anyway the question I had was about feeding wild insects, even though bob loves them i am no longer going to feed them to him unless there is little risk, anyone know of bugs that don't contain extra passangers?
I am assuming he got the pin worms from grasshoppers.

Glad to hear that Bob is on the mend.

For bugs that do not contain passengers, I am sure that even cultured bugs such as crickets can carry parasites, although usually they do not. This is because commercial cricket hatcheries seperate the eggs from the adults and hatch them in a new clean container.

I would think that anything that hatches from the egg in captivity, where the eggs were incubated seperate from the adult insects, would be safe or at least low incidence. I used to raise wild crickets (Gryllus sp.) in trash cans, and roaches can also be raised that way.

When your roaches lay eggs, seperate the egg cases into a new container for hatching and feed the resulting offspring when they are large enough to be of interest. Crickets lay in petri dishes that are filled with moist substrate such as sand. To hatch crickets, put the petri dishes into a new container.

If the little bugs are kept in clean containers, fed foods that are safe, and they have no contact with the adults or the adult feces, then they are probably safe.
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