Who knew. 🤷

[Accepted]

I feel so silly. I bought ten crickets and the following day there appeared to be more and some dead ones.

I removed the dead ones and the same thing the following day. Then today I learned, even crickets molt.

Now I'm left with the question of how do I know whether it's a molt or a dead cricket. They both look the same?..or whether it's a cricket molting and not dead?

 

[8 legged]

The molt won't move!

 

[viper69]

I feel so silly. I bought ten crickets and the following day there appeared to be more and some dead ones.

I removed the dead ones and the same thing the following day. Then today I learned, even crickets molt.

Now I'm left with the question of how do I know whether it's a molt or a dead cricket. They both look the same?..or whether it's a cricket molting and not dead?

Pay attention to detail- they do not look the same at all.

 

[DomGom TheFather]

A molt will be an empty husk. A dead cricket will remain immobile and intact.
If you want to be really really sure, save them for a day or two in a seperate container and give it the ol' smell test. Take a big wiff. It'll smell like fresh popcorn.

 

[Emi248]

A molt will be an empty husk. A dead cricket will remain immobile and intact.
If you want to be really really sure, save them for a day or two in a seperate container and give it the ol' smell test. Take a big wiff. It'll smell like fresh popcorn.

Did you really smelt your crickets molts?

 

[Frogdaddy]

A molt will be an empty husk. A dead cricket will remain immobile and intact.
If you want to be really really sure, save them for a day or two in a seperate container and give it the ol' smell test. Take a big wiff. It'll smell like fresh popcorn.

Well this explains a lot.

 

[DomGom TheFather]

Did you really smelt your crickets molts?

Na. Crickets are freaking gross.