Watch out for infected crickets....

[pamelacoe]

I'm not sure how the lizard itself is affected, but I found this news article that is worth knowing about....mentions Ghanns in there:

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/os-cricket-farm-bankruptcy-20100621,0,4775044.story

excerpt:

"Payne, owner of Lucky Lure Cricket Farm, supplied reptile owners, Florida theme parks and zoos with millions of singing insects every month until her Leesburg warehouse was suddenly silenced by a bug of a different kind.

A quick-spreading virus, blamed for destroying similar farms in Europe, wiped out her cricket colonies this year, contaminated her facility and forced the 58-year-old niche business into bankruptcy court this month."

 

[TheWolfmanTom]

This has been around for a bit Pam.
Seems all the crickets have carried the virus for sometime now and something has now activated it.

 

[pamelacoe]

I wouldn't know....I am a new owner. I was just trying to nice by posting something I thought might be a problem.

 

[RolandKyramere]

No issues, there is a lot of breaking news that comes out, and with the amount of posts not everyone sees it, and new info keeps developing on these sorts of issues.

 

[wes]

I wouldn't know....I am a new owner. I was just trying to nice by posting something I thought might be a problem.

I appreciated the article. I knew about the virus, but I didn't realize it was driving some big cricket breeders to bankruptcy.

 

[suzuki4life]

Watch out for what?

Experts say there is no evidence that any animal has been harmed by eating an infected cricket.

 

[clear]

The virus is species specific, will only affect this one species of cricket.

 

[pamelacoe]

Bummer for the crickets, I guess :?