Crickets dying

[Adriang33]

hey I just bought a new batch of crickets and most of them have died between yesterday afternoon and now. They seem lathargic and their legs seem to not really work why is this happening? I also just made a new batch of repashy big burger and I initially thought that I put too much water in it so I made a new batch but they still seem to be slowly dying off

 

[nightanole]

Odds are they are house crickets and came into contact with a container containing the cricket virus. So they are all paralyzed and dying. The banded crickets dont have this problem, but they are smaller.

 

[Adriang33]

Odds are they are house crickets and came into contact with a container containing the cricket virus. So they are all paralyzed and dying. The banded crickets dont have this problem, but they are smaller.

Dang... I already fed some to my chameleon is that okay?

 

[nightanole]

Dang... I already fed some to my chameleon is that okay?

Yea you are fine feeding off infected crickets. They are not any more/less nutritious. its not transmittable, hell it cant even hop to the replacement banded crickets.

 

[Adriang33]

Yea you are fine feeding off infected crickets. They are not any more/less nutritious. its not transmittable, hell it cant even hop to the replacement banded crickets.

Appreciate you

 

[CamrynTheCham22]

I know that crickets can die when they are around dead crickets, so that may be another thing to watch out for. I am not really sure if that is true, but it is what I heard.