Crickets in the house

[ZEROPILOT]

How is it that crickets kept nice and warm with sweet potato, carrots and blackberries die in a short period of time. But one that escapes can live without food or water under the furniture and chirping under your bed for a week and a half?

 

[Ares05]

Probably because it found some crumbs of food or something, who knows. ( I bet someone who actually knows can chime in lol)

 

[ashton0845]

I have had to get up at 3am and move my bed to try and find a cricket chirping under it

 

[ZEROPILOT]

I have had to get up at 3am and move my bed to try and find a cricket chirping under it

Let me guess....
You never found it!

 

[coastal_chameleon]

Let me guess....
You never found it!

they shut up when your trying to find them I swear !

 

[ZEROPILOT]

they shut up when your trying to find them I swear !

They absolutely do.

 

[Kaizen]

How is it that crickets kept nice and warm with sweet potato, carrots and blackberries die in a short period of time. But one that escapes can live without food or water under the furniture and chirping under your bed for a week and a half?

Fresh air.

 

[kinyonga]

Must be something wrong with the crickets captive environment if they're living outside it but dying in it, don't you think? What's your captive set up like? Crowded? Needs cleaning? Not enoug egg cartons or something to hide in? Food getting moody or rotting? Too much/too little heat or humidity?

 

[ZEROPILOT]

Must be something wrong with the crickets captive environment if they're living outside it but dying in it, don't you think? What's your captive set up like? Crowded? Needs cleaning? Not enoug egg cartons or something to hide in? Food getting moody or rotting? Too much/too little heat or humidity?

I actually have a low ratio of crickets dying before I can use them for food.
(I'm just being funny)

 

[SeeJay]

Every escaped cricket in my house ends up in the sump of my reef tank.

 

[ZEROPILOT]

Many of mine are found in my back bathroom tub.
Are they trying to get water?

 

[ashton0845]

Let me guess....
You never found it!

It took forever but I finally found it! Smacking it with my shoe was very satisfying

 

[Sammy Grigio]

The world is a different place when you're the size of a cricket. Food is abundant in crumbs and flakes. One droplet of water or any other liquid can sustain you for a day or two and fresh air and rolling pastures of the good human stuff that bugs covet. There's almost no reason why a cricket shouldn't, wouldn't or couldn't survive days roaming around a house. Hard to understand since we don't have that visual perspective as bipedal giants .