Black beetles and a few worms in live cricket delivery?

Brittany1288 · Mar 21, 2020

Hi,
I’m very new to all of this and just got a bearded dragon through an educator grant. Well he’s obviously home with me during this shelter in place time. Anyways, I decided to try ordering live crickets from flukers online since I’m under a shelter in place in my city. The shipment came and I noticed a few small black beetle looking things in there as well as a couple fuzzy worms. I got rid of those bugs but I was wondering if anyone else has dealt with that in a live shipment. I know nothing about bugs and don’t know if maybe that’s a bad sign that those extra bugs were in there.

MrSpectrum · Mar 22, 2020

It's hard to tell without pics for identification. You can use the User Image Uploader at the top of the screen.

They could be clean-up crew, or they could be hitchhikers/stowaways. I occasionally get some odd-looking interlopers in an order of dubia roaches (never fed crickets) but usually only near the end of the supply, when some of the bottom of the bin gets scraped up with the feeders. Like yourself, I pick them out--and crush before discarding.

Haven't had any resulting problems.

AHBD · Mar 24, 2020

Hi there, those would be dermestid beetles and the fuzzy worms are their larva stage. They are put in to clean up shed skin, etc and both are harmless and even edible but not really to be fed to your lizard.

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