What eats dead crickets?

[PeteysPizza]

Hello! I'm Peter, and this is my first post here. I was wondering is there are any kinds of interesting invertebrates that would eat the dead crickets that gather in the bottom of the containers of crickets you buy. Since the little buggers (no pun intended) cost about 15 cents each, I'd rather not waste them, especially if they can go towards something cool. Thanks in advance for all your help!
~Peter

 

[Smokehound714]

mealworms

 

[Bree24]

mealworms

So, basically, skip the crickets and just buy mealworms.

 

[schmiggle]

Wouldn't detritivores like isopods and maybe millipedes like them?

Alternatively, you could go for one of those oddball deep sea detritivores with the huge tentacles to catch marine snow.

 

[AnimalNewbie]

Death feigning beetles eat the scraps so why not help them selves out to a fresh gourmet meal!
I usually just throw in those dead ones with my slings if they died recently and they get scavenged.
Centipedes would probably scavenge too

 

[Teal]

Isopods, Darkling beetles, slings... I have fed deceased prey to them all!

Death Feigning Beetles are my scavenger of choice, though.

 

[Aquarimax]

Hello! I'm Peter, and this is my first post here. I was wondering is there are any kinds of interesting invertebrates that would eat the dead crickets that gather in the bottom of the containers of crickets you buy. Since the little buggers (no pun intended) cost about 15 cents each, I'd rather not waste them, especially if they can go towards something cool. Thanks in advance for all your help!
~Peter

My sopods eat them readily. My death-feigning beetles and other desert tenebrionid beetles go crazy over them.

 

[draconisj4]

My isopods, centipede and warrior beetle will eat them as long as they haven't been dead for too long.

 

[davehuth]

Just want to chime in and also be one to say my desert Tenebrionids and isopods (especially P. scaber) take care of every dead invert I end up with. My scabers are dismantling an adult Blaberus roach as I type this, and I expect it to be gone in a day.