big, black, ugly cricket okay to feed?

[gumby]

I know this may not sound great but I say go ahead and feed your T the crikets I feed my Ts random beetles and crikets found in the yard but I do know that we dont use pesticides and I also dont feed them to the Ts I care the most about I have a wild cought G rosea that I got from a pet store because it was a good size and female and she eats lots of fun things but my Avicularia purpurea, and my Theraphosa blondi will never eat anything I dont buy from a pet store. in fact the only T I feed things from the yard to is that 1 G rosea
scott

 

[Stylopidae]

That's a bad ass centipede in that pic, what species is it?

Many have tried and many have failed to ID that pede. It hails from India, though if I remember right.

 

[Beardo]

Cricket's a cricket to me, I feed my T's that kind all the time.

Yeah, well when you feed your spiders a cricket covered in pesticide don't come here crying about your dead spider(s). I don't see why people take risks like this w/their animals....is it to save money? Breed roaches, then you have a free souce of prey items. Is it for variety? Tarantulas don't need nor care if you feed them 50 different insects....they'll thrive on one or two.

 

[Talkenlate04]

frogs crickets, whatever flys,

I catch things all the time from all over and I have never had a T die or get sick or suddenly die. I get what people are saying when they say there are harmful things that could be carried but lets get real everything is adapting to whats happening. And that includes T's.