"Oh, you should never feed adult female crickets to a tarantula..."

[Hanska]

I always sort of thought of the ovipositor as a handle.

That's what I grab the cricket from when I feed Ts.

This customer should buy crickets from our shop. I'm pretty sure our supplier picks only males to sell us. A friend of mine wanted to buy crickets for breeding as we got a fresh batch and from the 500 crickets we went through 2 or 3 were female.

 

[ParryOtter]

I have no response, other than I hope she isn't a regular customer so you don't have to sort 30+ crickets by gender on a regular basis.

 

[Beary Strange]

While I agree with cold blood that you definitely shouldn't go in guns loaded, telling her how wrong (and silly and illogical) she is, I would try and establish some sort of rapport with her so that you can correct her misconceptions down the road. I say misconceptions because that level of misinformation makes me wonder what other strange myths and pseudo-facts she has in her head--I can almost picture the sponges in her water dishes, so you know, they don't drown. :|

 

[darkness975]

I feed the males first to avoid the noise And to minimize the amount of bloated abdomen females lumbering around with eggs inside them and nowhere to lay them.

I have actually never heard this urban legend before but it sounds like mistaking it for the Pepsis wasp is a possibility. Hey I once had a dream that Tarantulas were flying (literally with wings) around my bedroom so maybe she was dreamwalking???

 

[timisimaginary]

well, if i'm unsure if a T is in premolt or otherwise might not take the cricket immediately, i'll cut off the ovipositor. but that's only because i don't want it laying eggs in the substrate and suddenly having a cage full of pinheads bothering my T. never heard of a cricket laying eggs in, on, or under a T.

 

[fuzzyavics72]

It's truly scary what some people will believe......

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I would also feed female crickets to a tarantula to disprove her ridiculous theory!

 

[Smokehound714]

female crickets are a better meal.. all those eggs inside them

 

[Dr Acula]

I feel your pain. I too just got a job at an exotics LPS and had this guy tell me that monitor lizards can get rabies~
I agree with bringing your credibility up with her first before confronting her, it'll most likely fly over her heard otherwise

 

[fuzzyavics72]

Wow, people don't use their brains do they? We have all this info. at out fingertips and you would think as a world we would be smarter, but we aren't.

 

[timisimaginary]

the unfortunate thing about the internet, is that it is equally efficient at spreading bad information as it is at spreading good info. actually, it's probably even better at spreading the bad info, since the old filters for weeding out misinformation no longer apply.

 

[dredrickt]

This is clearly false.

The real reason you should never feed female crickets to tarantulas is because there is a chance they could mate and create hybrids. :laugh:

 

[cold blood]

This is clearly false.

The real reason you should never feed female crickets to tarantulas is because there is a chance they could mate and create hybrids. :laugh:

To quote Uncle Eddie from the "Vacation" movies...."Are you serious Clark?"

hahaha

 

[ratluvr76]

This is clearly false.

The real reason you should never feed female crickets to tarantulas is because there is a chance they could mate and create hybrids. :laugh:

Haha... An eight legged cricket with venom, can jump 25 feet into the air thanks to its well designed jumping legs.......

 

[edgeofthefreak]

Haha... An eight legged cricket with venom, can jump 25 feet into the air thanks to its well designed jumping legs.......

Oh dayum that's funny!
One thing tho... it wouldn't make it past the waterdish.

"World's first arachnid/insect hybrid drowns in tiny waterdish -- keeper advised by the hundreds to use a sponge next time!"

Film at eleven?