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Something weird my way came.... We had a new cricket vendor at a show. It was really odd - the boxes were about 6" cubes holding 1000 crickets each. I bought 4 boxes. I had the cricket enclosures clean and ready to go at home and since the boxes were so small, I released them immediately. About 1/2 the crickets were dead. But there were still over 1000 in each box. Grossly overcounted and packed. I use water crystals and the water is 1/2" or so below the level of crystals. There is about 1" of space above the water crystals (we are painting a picture here...). I added oranges, carrots and romaine - same as always. The next morning there was a putrid smell coming from the new crickets. I looked in and the water bowl was filled with milky, white liquid and a few hundred dead crickets. The liquid had to come from the crickets because the crystals were 100% saturated. I cleaned that bowl and added new. The next day the same thing happened with a little less liquid. I lived through the great cricket shortages of the 70's and again in 2010. I am a little paranoid about cricket diseases. (AdDNV or CrPV) But anyway, I threw all the crickets away. I was afraid I would make my animals sick. So what do you think about this and mostly what was that white milky liquid? I'm pretty sure I could vaporize a cricket and it wouldn't be milky white liquid.