Gryllus bimaculatus

[Tomas Whitehouse]

Hello,

Does anyone know what the egg sac of a Gryllus bimaculatus looks like?
I'm not sure wether I am looking at a cricket egg sac or are large pile of cricket poo.

Many thanks.

Tomas

[Chris Wheeler (Gigus)]

They do not construct egg sacs, the lay single eggs in the substrate with use of the ovipositor that protrudes from their abdomen.

[Colin D Wilson]

Crickets normally lay eggs singularly in the dirt, there's a (bit blurry) picture of one on here...

http://chamownersweb.tripod.com/Crickets/Adult_Crix.htm

[Tomas Whitehouse]

Cheers Colin.

Thanks mate, I don't know what this stuff is then, it looks like a kind of egg sac and its brown, there is three of them in the cricket keeper. Maybe it is excrement?

Tomas

[Chris Wheeler (Gigus)]

Are there dermestids present in the colony?

[Tomas Whitehouse]

Are there dermestids present in the colony?

Hi Chris,

You'll have to excuse my ignorance, Is a dermestid a kind of cleaning beetle? If so I havent noticed any, besides I have only one tarantula so I buy just five or six crickets a week, only four are actually fed, the other two act as reserves as these crickets cannabalise occasionally.
That reminds me, living in Finland I am finding it hard to track down any tank cleaning woodlice, would you know of anyone willing to ship here that doesn't require an order over £50.00 in order to ship?

Many thanks

Tomas