Quick and simple.

Why on earth is there a bunch of caterpillars in the tub with my crickets?

Can they be fed to my scorps?

And, are they going to eat the rest of my crickets?

Hi mate, I read (quite a while ago though) that the livefood breeders use them to keep things clean in a similar way to isopods and you'll always have them in your crickets. How true this is I don't know.

lol i always wondered what those thigs are ...my sister feeds them to her frogs + newts when she gets them in the tubs of crickets, they freak me out lol so i just leave them in there to rot

well ive just done a little search and they are they're beetle larvae and can be a pest with regards to crickets also if consumed they can cause parasites
They are the larvae of Hide beetles, and they get in as a pest from the breeders. They can devastate breeders stock. Many people believe they are put in to eat the dead crickets but not so.

so no i wouldnt feed them

Ah maybe I was wrong lol

Those beetles are so annoying! Whenever you open the tub they hatch a plan to climb to the highest point and fly out

Yeah mine get left in there.

Eurgh, creepy little things.

I should probably remove them before I end up with a tub full of flying beetles.

from what i read they eat the crickets too so prob best to remove them..no wonder i end up with half a tub dead lol

That would explain why they're rapidly disappearing.

I have enough problems with the crickets eating eachother I don't need little fuzzy larvae adding to the problem.

This is the last time I buy crickets, I'm switching back to locusts.

Roaches FTW

I would use roaches I just don't know anywhere around here that sells them. They're rare around these parts, the main feeders are locusts, worms and crickets.

We don't see roaches round here either so have never used then as yet

Hahaha look why I just found 5 of in our brown crickets!!! Not fuzzy little freaks now!! And they fly too!!

This site seems ok, haven't used them personally though. I got my starter colony at SEAS but yeah I haven't seen them in any pet shops around here. I don't think it's worth buying them just as feeders but starting a colony is great.

Roachcolony.co.uk

Yep they're the escape artist beetles! Come to think of it they probably are a pest to live food as when I order my crickets in bulk from the net (beardies get through alot) from a good place they don't have any fuzzy things. But when I get them from the pet shop they do.

That thing is hideous. It's like the darkling beetle's evil twin brother. Too late for removing mine though. I have three crickets left and about fifty thousand of those grubs.

And I'll definitely be looking into that site Jamie, one hundred small roaches for ten quid sound very reasonable.

Jamie do roaches make noise or anything?? Like I said we have never used them are they suitable for all scorps ( can u get small ones?) would like to be self sufuciant with feeders but dunno if I have the space really, will have to look up iitamadochi1 roach post I think too