Wormlike things outta crickets...

[Kwadapok]

has anyone ever seen a kind of small wormlike thing come out of a cricket?? i will try to get some pics

 

[Talkenlate04]

The only think I can think of without seeing a picture is you might have seen an egg or eggs coming out of a female cricket. But if it was wiggling or moving in any way then you can scratch that theory.

 

[Kwadapok]

yea..

they were wiggling and crawling.kinda crazy i dont think i want to feed the crickets to my T's now.

 

[Talkenlate04]

Are you sure they were not hopping? Like maybe baby pin head crickets would? Crickets don't give live birth, so if you saw them come out of the cricket while the T was feeding, well then that is not good.

 

[MadTitan]

If the crickets your talking about are black, yes.

There were tons of black crickets where I lived in North Dakota and Minnesota. Often they would get run over on the driveway. Every time, a white worm would crawl out after the cricket had died.

But, I have no idea what, exactly, they were.

 

[Lucara]

Yeah, ive had those...if im not mistaken..they are the maggots for those horribly annoying gnats or flies that crickets always come with.

 

[Talkenlate04]

Yeah, ive had those...if im not mistaken..they are the maggots for those horribly annoying gnats or flies that crickets always come with.

And they came out of the cricket? Oh that's yummy.

Every time, a white worm would crawl out after the cricket had died.

That is horrifying. I am weird about things like that I guess.

 

[Lucara]

yeah, dead ones mostly. Its pretty nasty..it seems to happen if you keep them somewhere where there is high humidity.

I would move your crickets somewhere where there is more ventillation.

 

[MadTitan]

I wonder if this it what I was seeing.

http://www.wnrmag.com/stories/1999/oct99/hworm.htm

 

[Sabatta]

I had that with one of my crix before too. It's like something out of a horror movie watching this huge parasite squirm out of it.

 

[Talkenlate04]

That was an interesting read. That might be it……… Who knows, it's still gross. Yet another reason to hate crickets!

 

[Kwadapok]

I wonder if this it what I was seeing.

http://www.wnrmag.com/stories/1999/oct99/hworm.htm

OMG no it wasnt huge like that but the crick was dead so i took it out of the container my other crix are in and when it was laying on the paper on my desk this little maggot type worm wiggled right out of its butt.

 

[Stylopidae]

Most likely a nematode of some sort.

Do not feed any in the batch to your tarantulas and discard of them as soon as possible.

 

[Talkenlate04]

Most likely a nematode of some sort.

Do not feed any in the batch to your tarantulas and discard of them as soon as possible.

Where the heck do nematodes come from? Do they just break off into pieces like an earth worm and keep on going like that from host to host? Or are there eggs and such that cause the spread. I guess I am asking what the final form of a nematode is. Does it stay worm like for ever, going from small to bigger then die? Oh and do they live outside a host?

 

[Becky]

Is it possible that it could be phorid fly maggots?

 

[Tunedbeat]

Was the cricket wild caught? It looks to be some sort of parasite.

 

[Kwadapok]

All I have been able to find on parasites that infect crix would be gordian worms or the fly maggots and judging by what I saw come outta the cricket I would say it was fly maggots.

 

[Kwadapok]

Was the cricket wild caught? It looks to be some sort of parasite.

No I bought them from a petshop down the road.

 

[Stylopidae]

Where the heck do nematodes come from? Do they just break off into pieces like an earth worm and keep on going like that from host to host? Or are there eggs and such that cause the spread. I guess I am asking what the final form of a nematode is. Does it stay worm like for ever, going from small to bigger then die? Oh and do they live outside a host?

The only nematodes I've dealt with are from centipedes, so I can only answer for them.

My hypothesis is that they are picked up from the environment, kill the centipede from head-down in an effort to get it eaten by another host, and then pass on in that host's feces.

For tarantulas, I'd imagine that it's a similar life cycle...transmitted through feeders.

I think there's a point in their life cycle where they reproduce inside the tarantula and in captivity just keep getting picked up over and over again.

I don't study them, so hopefully there's someone here on the boards who can correct me.

Either way...from my own personal experiences and from talking to breeders/hobbiests who have dealt with them, it seems that they are transmitted through feeders and the most common feeders they're transmitted through are crickets.