CRICKETS CAME BACK TO LIFE

[christiet95]

Hello,

I came here because maybe someone on here will see this and have an answer for me. I’ve tried researching but to no avail.

Yesterday I went to the reptile shop and bought 200 large crickets. The cashier put 200 crickets in a small bag, way too small for 200 crickets. I remember looking at the bag on the counter and saying to myself “wow that’s a lot of crickets in a tiny bag”. I paid for them, put them in the car with me and went to like two other stores. They were in the bag maybe an hour if that.

when we got home, I pulled the cricket bag out of the shopping bag and every last one of them were dead. Or so it seemed that way. We were extremely pissed what a waste of 200 crickets, how could they have died so soon. My husband said it’s probably because 200 crickets were stuffed into this tiny plastic bag with a large piece of egg crate.

so he dumped them all out in our cricket feeder last night around 6pm and then put them outside for the night. The next morning he leaves for work, looks at the container as he’s walking by and gets more mad because it just reminded him of the night prior.

Today when he gets home from work around 12pm, EVERY LAST CRICKET WAS UP AND MOVING AROUND LIKE NOTHING HAPPENED.

He gently misted them with a tiny bit of water and they got even better!

What in the world do you think happened? CO2 poisoning from being cramped in that tiny plastic bag? Were they just knocked out and came back when they got some air and it warmed up? We are both speechless.

Thank you for any information, it’s greatly appreciated, this is so interesting and baffling!

 

[viper69]

They don’t come back to life

 

[fcat]

Accidental anesthesia

 

[Ultum4Spiderz]

Hello,

I came here because maybe someone on here will see this and have an answer for me. I’ve tried researching but to no avail.

Yesterday I went to the reptile shop and bought 200 large crickets. The cashier put 200 crickets in a small bag, way too small for 200 crickets. I remember looking at the bag on the counter and saying to myself “wow that’s a lot of crickets in a tiny bag”. I paid for them, put them in the car with me and went to like two other stores. They were in the bag maybe an hour if that.

when we got home, I pulled the cricket bag out of the shopping bag and every last one of them were dead. Or so it seemed that way. We were extremely pissed what a waste of 200 crickets, how could they have died so soon. My husband said it’s probably because 200 crickets were stuffed into this tiny plastic bag with a large piece of egg crate.

so he dumped them all out in our cricket feeder last night around 6pm and then put them outside for the night. The next morning he leaves for work, looks at the container as he’s walking by and gets more mad because it just reminded him of the night prior.

Today when he gets home from work around 12pm, EVERY LAST CRICKET WAS UP AND MOVING AROUND LIKE NOTHING HAPPENED.

He gently misted them with a tiny bit of water and they got even better!

What in the world do you think happened? CO2 poisoning from being cramped in that tiny plastic bag? Were they just knocked out and came back when they got some air and it warmed up? We are both speechless.

Thank you for any information, it’s greatly appreciated, this is so interesting and baffling!

Was it cold enough to knock them out ?!
One hour sealed is not enough time for them to die.

 

[NMTs]

Hello,

I came here because maybe someone on here will see this and have an answer for me. I’ve tried researching but to no avail.

Yesterday I went to the reptile shop and bought 200 large crickets. The cashier put 200 crickets in a small bag, way too small for 200 crickets. I remember looking at the bag on the counter and saying to myself “wow that’s a lot of crickets in a tiny bag”. I paid for them, put them in the car with me and went to like two other stores. They were in the bag maybe an hour if that.

when we got home, I pulled the cricket bag out of the shopping bag and every last one of them were dead. Or so it seemed that way. We were extremely pissed what a waste of 200 crickets, how could they have died so soon. My husband said it’s probably because 200 crickets were stuffed into this tiny plastic bag with a large piece of egg crate.

so he dumped them all out in our cricket feeder last night around 6pm and then put them outside for the night. The next morning he leaves for work, looks at the container as he’s walking by and gets more mad because it just reminded him of the night prior.

Today when he gets home from work around 12pm, EVERY LAST CRICKET WAS UP AND MOVING AROUND LIKE NOTHING HAPPENED.

He gently misted them with a tiny bit of water and they got even better!

What in the world do you think happened? CO2 poisoning from being cramped in that tiny plastic bag? Were they just knocked out and came back when they got some air and it warmed up? We are both speechless.

Thank you for any information, it’s greatly appreciated, this is so interesting and baffling!

Yes, suffocation is likely the culprit, and possibly the temperature. Unlike most vertebrates, insects are able to go into stasis when faced with unfavorable conditions and if things improve in time they can revive themselves. I've had it happen plenty of times with crickets, and with much fewer than a couple hundred in a little bag - that's just stupid, and as the customer you shouldn't accept the stupid things pet store employees do because then they'll just keep doing it. Glad you're crickets came back to life so they can be eaten, lol!

 

[Charliemum]

Here we get our crix in tubs not bags but I have heard of others in the USA that have had problems with crix in bags and their solution was take a tub with them and insist the petstore put the crix in the tub not the bag , might be worth the investment . I hope it helps and you get less zombie crix in the future

 

[444 critters]

I can't remember the last time I fooled with crickets.... they die so easy and smell... went with a red runner colony for the spiders and a dubia colony for my beardies. I never have to buy another unhealthy feeder... plus I get to gut load with my choice of nutrition. ..

The zombie crickets are a cool story though, I was never lucky enough to resurrect mine when they stopped moving

 

[SpookySpooder]

Crickets have a neat survival ability to trigger a comatose state when the environment becomes hostile to their survival.

Google: diapause

 

[ozzymandias]

I've had this happen with Zophobas morio worms - they went into stasis because of the cold temperature of my car.

 

[paumotu]

I’ve had this happen with certain roaches— exposing them to fresh air seems to reanimate them.

 

[Tbone192]

Wetas, essentially roided crickets from Oceania and parts of SE Asia, are known for going into a torpor-like state when the temperature drops to unsuitable levels. As soon as it becomes warm enough, they become active again.

Telling the difference between a sleeping/unconscious and a dead vertebrate is difficult in itself. Trying to determine whether an invertebrate is truly dead or just taking a break from life, to me is like trying to fit a couch through a narrow doorway...it isn't happening.

 

[IntermittentSygnal]

Whenever I need to prekill a cricket for a sling, I pop it in the fridge for a couple minutes to put it in, as @SpookySpooder said, dispause. Makes the deed easier, faster and an immediate kill.