Amazing Cricket

[Gigas]

Wasnt to sure where to put this, but ive just found a half eaten cricket in my rosea tank, Still alive! running around doing crickety things , just with a huge hole in his side.
*pics*

 

[GATORGAR56K]

reminds me of a time i went to clean out the remains of my pede's victims, and went to pull out the front hafl of one of the crickets, and to my surprise, it hopped to its feet and started running around like it normally would, even though it had been envenomated and it was missing an abdomen

 

[Gigas]

hey thats a point why didnt the venom kill him?

 

[Peter_Parker]

hmmm, thats weird. I knew the venom works differently on inverts than mammals, but still shouldn't it be keeled over? I wonder why it didn't get finished off?

 

[PA7R1CK]

hmmm, thats weird. I knew the venom works differently on inverts than mammals, but still shouldn't it be keeled over? I wonder why it didn't get finished off?

I agree. Thats odd. I guess it might have been a dry bite? Or possibly if not dry very little venom was injected.

 

[Gigas]

So what do you guys think she held it down and dribbled on it?

 

[Fierce Deity]

How do you know that venom was injected and it wasn't a dry bite? I know my rosie doesn't inject venom into crickets, they are small enough that she just rips them apart.

 

[Hedorah99]

I fed a hissing cockroach to a T. blondi at the zoo once. Two hours later the first half of the roach was gone, but the rear end was still trying to run away. I am truthfully not surprised anymore by how much damage a cricket or roah can sustain before dying.

 

[Stylopidae]

There was a thread in the myriapod section where Cacoseraph was theorizing on whether or not centipedes will dry bite a victim that doesn't exactly pose a threat to it's own saftey and just use pure physical force to subdue it to conserve venom.