Crickets bite?

Has anyone ever gotten bit by a cricket before? It hurts more than you'd expect it. Anyone else?

I have a colony and pick them up constanly. Never been biten though.

no, but i've heard about bites. I would guess they do have strong mandibles since they have to eat strong, tough plants.

Huh. So I'm the only one here?

no...ive been bitten...the little <enter swear word here> went straight in the fire (they dont die when you freeze em)...

crickets do die when you freeze them, iv been bitten once didnt really feel much thought to be honest

Never been bitten, but I've picked one up and seen it making chomping gestures at me with those big jagged mandibles it had.

do superwoms bite? I picked a box up from the P.S and i took one out with forecepts. it wriggled and sort off lached on to the forcepts....


i think i will be headcrushing them....

yes they can bite and thy do tend to hurt a lil more than crickets hahahah
just look at the heads on them and you can tell they can bite

They do bite but it feels like a tingly sensations. Speaking of criks I just had 200 of them DIE TODAY UGH I HATE ANTS....im gonna kill all ants everywhere.

Dude . . . MORE ants?!

the ants in my house are no joke. Just got my C. marg back the bicolor morph. Fed it. 10 minutes later ants are trying to eat the dead roach that the scorpion is eating so I change it from enclosures go to lunch come back and the ants LITERALLY tore him apart. I'm back to having 1 scorp in my collection.

Freakin ants ate your scorp, man? That sucks!

And two of my juvi of that species / morph died mysteriously, so I only have the one.

try putting olive oil on the oudside of all your enclosures, they cant climb it and they die if they get on it when its wet (in my experience)

connie our ants will kill to eat wont they lol

I hate <insert explicitive here> ants! i mean they are amazing and all.... but they eat our scorps...

lycanlord19 wrote:

connie our ants will kill to eat wont they lol

See all ive ever know about our ants *not a great deal* is that I only ever seen them near food items left out.
Ive never seen ants just run, attack and kill something...

then youve never seen army ants

These ants find ways into the enclosure I've tried glue traps olive oil and anything else you can think of. The only this that has worked is to actually feed the ants. but they seem to prefer crickets and scorpions to hot dogs now.

I used to work at petsmart and got bit constantly. It just leaves a little red mark.

i was bit by a crix once i was taking legs off to feed to my pac man and he bit my thumb it didnt hurt but i was shocked i thought crix were just stupif little thing that caant hurt and drown them selfs

lol i just got chomped by one. little _ _ _ _ er escaped!
and i just got bit by a fruit beetle grub...!!!
damn feeder insects!!!