Number of posts : 915 Age : 28 Location : Kent U.K Registration date : 2011-04-13
Subject: caterpillar in cricket tub? 4/24/2011, 3:35 pm
hi everyone, got the crickets in a faunarium, i thought i saw a bug. i never got chance to catch it. today, i found it so decided to put it in a little tub. anybody know what is is and what it's for? thanks Tom
Peloquin Babycurus
Number of posts : 429 Age : 124 Location : Midian- where the monsters go. Registration date : 2010-06-29
Subject: Re: caterpillar in cricket tub? 4/24/2011, 3:44 pm
The common name for it is Wooly Bear. They clean up cricket crap etc... Don't let tgem loose though, they can get through carpet quickly.lol.
spinnin_tom Tityus
Number of posts : 915 Age : 28 Location : Kent U.K Registration date : 2011-04-13
Subject: Re: caterpillar in cricket tub? 4/24/2011, 3:49 pm
i'm not going to chance letting him out. looks like it is a dermestid beetle larvae. very efficient cleaners. so much so, that that forensic people use them to clean up bone etc
Manser Babycurus
Number of posts : 484 Age : 35 Location : Essex UK Registration date : 2010-09-30
Subject: Re: caterpillar in cricket tub? 4/24/2011, 5:28 pm
always wonderd what they were lol
spinnin_tom Tityus
Number of posts : 915 Age : 28 Location : Kent U.K Registration date : 2011-04-13
Subject: Re: caterpillar in cricket tub? 4/25/2011, 3:06 pm
*UPDATE* oh well, it has 6 legs now, must have molted or something, looks like a pupae now
*~BEX~* Administrator
Number of posts : 4246 Age : 40 Registration date : 2010-08-29
Subject: Re: caterpillar in cricket tub? 4/25/2011, 3:21 pm
Yeah they turn into tiny beetles they fly!
spinnin_tom Tityus
Number of posts : 915 Age : 28 Location : Kent U.K Registration date : 2011-04-13
Subject: Re: caterpillar in cricket tub? 4/25/2011, 3:40 pm
the beetles look cool, i'm hoping to grow it up. the pot is covered lol
