My sling/juve ate a wooly bear!

[Larry Shone]

When I buy my crickets I always seem to find a wooly bear in with them.These are larvae of carpet beetles or similar i belive, and Im not sure how they get in with the crix, but I put a couple in with my T, along with a cricket or two.
As soon as i put it in it buroowed out of sight so i thought, well thats that then. But later in the day I saw my little Rosea holding one betwen its jaws!
Greedy get had 2 crix s well! Shes growing!

[Phil Rea]

Be careful doing that Larry, as beetle larvae (like crickets) will quite happily attack your sling if it happens to moult when they're in there, possibly fatally wounding it. I would suggest that if you put them in, crush their heads so that they can't burrow.

[Larry Shone]

Be careful doing that Larry, as beetle larvae (like crickets) will quite happily attack your sling if it happens to moult when they're in there, possibly fatally wounding it. I would suggest that if you put them in, crush their heads so that they can't burrow.

Ooh, i dont know if I could do that, I'm a confirmed wuss with stuf like that! Plus I didnt think my T would eat something if it as dead.

[Simon Batten]

I always get those in my cricket tubs I was wondering what they were and how they got there

[Phil Rea]

Ooh, i dont know if I could do that, I'm a confirmed wuss with stuf like that! Plus I didnt think my T would eat something if it as dead.

I think you'll find it might Larry

If they're hungry, most T's will eat almost anything edible to them, live or dead.. raw lean meat, defrosted pinkie mice, dead crix etc..

I routinely feed very small slings and smaller spiders on bits of things. My C. elegans spiderling seems particularly fond of cricket legs at the moment!

Personally I'd rather not risk damage to my spiders, because most of them seem to be moulting overnight out of spite lately!

[Larry Shone]

Well, thats something to think about, thanks for the info Phil!