Crickets, bugs, dubias, I'm a sissy

[mark83]

Actually the chirping doesn't bother me (of course the ones I have don't chirp yet, too young) but all we have to do is open a window and it's a chorus outside of crickets, frogs and whatever else. Living on the edge of a woods gets you used to those things!

I know what you mean I used to live outside a small town and it was noisier than being in the city in some ways. Although for some reason hearing a lot of crickets is less annoying than that 1 cricket in your house you cant find chirping all night.

 

[kimmie]

I've told my kids that those "city" folks PAY for Recordings of "non-city" noises! :lol: With that said, I camped out this past Saturday (cub scout thing) and there were 2 owls that were being rather noisey and rude all night long! :lol:

 

[moose9]

I just reach in and grab the roaches by the handful. I never could stand crickets regardless. I'll handle roaches any day over crickets. Amazing the grip the B. dubia have. B. dubia get to about 1.5" - 1.7". Very meaty compared to crickets. My dragons used to eat 30 crickets a session. Once I switched to roaches, maybe 4-6.

 

[kimmie]

No roaches for this gal. I understand they are awesome to feed BD's ...but I can NOT for the life of me bring them knowingly into our house! :lol: My hubby isn't too fond of the crickets, he'd FREAK on the roaches!

 

[lesleyg1989]

I've had my beardies for a year now and I can touch the wax and phoenix worms but definately not morio worms and ost definately not crickets or locusts.
Yesterday morning a cricket juped out of the viv and I couldn't find it then this morning I saw it and would not catch it so I just tried to squish it with my tub of calcium for the beardies and the lid fell off and the dust went everywhere! I ended up standing on it to kill it.
Can'tstand them at all.

 

[kimmie]

OH WOW ...I can't handle the Phoenix Worms - period. Tweezers are used for those. Too many bad ordeals with maggots!

I still jump at the crickets but I've actually touched them. The pitfalls of having the sliding front doors to the viv is that those suckers seem to JUMP at ya. I shut the door so quick on one, I squished it. Hubby wasn't happy when he told me about finding 2 of them in the bathroom. :lol:

 

[Sapphire]

It's not like crickets really do any damage when they're in your house... They just jump out and scare you, lol.