Does anyone knows what is this bug?

[splinter]

This thing are coming inside the bag from PetSmart. Are they any good for the Cham? What is it?

 

[ChameleonsInMyHouse]

i forget what they are called, but ive had those a few times in my cricket bags from petsmart, though you can feed them, im not sure what the benefit of feeding them off would be.

 

[DavidBuchan]

I get them in my cricket boxes sometimes, you can feed them to the Cham, but I also don't know what they are called........

 

[KarmaChameleon1337]

It looks like the fuzzy caterpillars I find outside my house.. one is fuzzy, soft, and nice, the other which looks exactly like it is spiky, spikes are poisonous, and it's just plain rude. Don't think that's the type of caterpillar though, looks slightly different.

 

[Lizardlover]

They are called dermestids, they feed off of the dead crickets, when they mature they become beetles.

 

[ChameleonsInMyHouse]

thank you lizardlover for the name

 

[seanUTD]

They are called dermestids, they feed off of the dead crickets, when they mature they become beetles.

FLESH EATERS!! I actually wanted to start a colony of these guys so I could done some of those cool skeleton builds... Kinda morbid I know I didn't know petsmart put them in with crix though?

 

[Symbiot]

I got one of these inside of a bag of crickets I bought from my local petshop.

 

[Jammonlee]

only dead crickets? Are they any harm to live ones? Hell, if thats an easy way to rid my tub of cricket corpses without harming the live ones, I'm in! They wouldnt happen to have any cricket poop eating caterpillars would they?

 

[pantherlover]

Theyre used to keep things clean, like springtails in terrariums...

 

[KarmaChameleon1337]

Oh ya! That's right I saw it on oddities and love watching vids of them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClvFSSB28W8

 

[okiroo]

i got one once(that i saw) it creeped me out and i threw it away. looks scary D:

 

[splinter]

thanks a lot. Maybe I leave them with the crickets then.

 

[Heimdallr]

I hate those damn things, they get out and destroy my mounted insect collection and taxidermy. If you have anything made from animals; leather, fur, deer horn, ect. and happen to find one of these destructive creatures, keep moth balls all around it until they are irradicated.