crickets v superworm nutrition

[billford]

i have noticed that crickets eat alot more gutload than superworms.does that mean there is more food for my cham in them? thanks bill

 

[tastyworms]

i have noticed that crickets eat alot more gutload than superworms.does that mean there is more food for my cham in them? thanks bill

Not necessarily. I believe that crickets have a faster metabolism than superworms and that could account for the larger amount of food they consume.

 

[pssh]

I personally prefer supers. Fewer need to be fed, they have less chitin, and they don't stink! . The only thing I don't like is that they spit up and they bite.

 

[sandrachameleon]

Both are fine. yes crickets are a bit more nutritious, mostly because they are less fatty. But they also seem to hold more in their stomachs, so fresh gutload is more easily transferred. Supers live a great deal longer than crickets, and grow more slowly, thus should need to eat less all at once quickly - but it many only appear thta they eat less (are you taking into consideration how much of the substrate they are eating (usually this is a bedding of bran or oats)?).

pssh - supers dont bite any more than crickets, and both insects have chinton.

 

[pssh]

I've never been bitten by a cricket before... I forgot they could bite! Supers on the other hand... I've probably been bitten close to 75 times since the first time I'd been bitten! I dont know why they bite more all of a sudden, but whatever. I know they both have chinton.

 

[jr andrade]

Yeah pick up a handful of crickets and it really hurts...imo more the the supers

 

[sandrachameleon]

I've never been bitten by a cricket before... I forgot they could bite! Supers on the other hand... I've probably been bitten close to 75 times since the first time I'd been bitten! I dont know why they bite more all of a sudden, but whatever. I know they both have chinton.

We have the opposite luck! Supers have never bitten me, but several large (always male) crickets have! Its more of an unpleasant suprise than painful.

 

[ijmccollum]

What's really nasty is a Anabrus simplex bite. Didn't happen to me thank goodness but it did happen to a collegue of mine on a trip to Bryan's Head Ut during a plant collection trip. We were there on a two day collection. First day went well, the second... they must have moved in over night and they were swarmimg. I turned around to a screech and my collegue grabbing at her pant leg. Apparently the thing had crawled up her leg and bit her. It was left as a greasy spot on the inside of her pant leg. Needless to say, I called the trip short and she was greatful. When we left the park we could see where they had crossed the road because there was a stretch of big greasy bodies everywhere and you could tell where the swarm was because of the birds overhead... oh and you can actually hear them moving.