Funny crickets!

[lunashimmer]

Silly me--I did not realize that as a T owner, I would also be caring for their food, even just temporarily. But the roach-like crickets, for all their stupidity and general yuckiness, are making me giggle!!!

I have 6 or so in a small Critter Keeper that I will feed to my 2 Ts this week, with a Coke cap filled with water, some fish flakes (so they don't eat each other) and a short piece of paper towel roll for a shelter, inside.

What's so funny is that they are crawling all over the round paper towel roll and if it moves, which it will because all 6 seem to end up on the same side at the same time, they all skitter like mad and push the paper towel roll even more, which makes them freak out even more!!!!! All I heard while I was rushing to get my very 1st class assignment in by 11 (submitted at 10:59, thank you very much.) was the crickets rolling the paper towel tube back and forth and the sound of a soft >clunk< as one of them jumped too high and bashed her meager brains against the top of the Critter Keeper.

What entertainment! Better than TV!!!

 

[Evil Seedlet]

XD they are pretty fun to watch. My cat thinks so too. I just let her.. distracts her from wanting to watch my T's, lol

 

[micheldied]

Indeed they are very entertaining.
I enjoy watching them when they're first introduced into the enclosure I keep them in.

 

[ZergFront]

I enjoy watching them when they're first introduced into the enclosure I keep them in.

That is probably the best time to watch them. Almost any cricket colony I get acts like they were starved. I just see a big mass of insects covering their food. They love cherries and cauliflower. Also seem to like the Nasturtiums that grow rampant in my garden.

I didn't know this until I got them, but the female actually climbs on top of the male for mating. Makes sense with that big ovipositor sticking out, in the way.