Isn't that true of most aquatic life too, though? I've never worked with crickets but I've treated more fish for parasites than I can count. It seems like there ought to be a way to treat the livestock for these things in some sort of bug farm setting.
Treating the insects might be possible, but the parasitic infections they can get are really wild. In captivity, they already resort to eating each other, witch is the perfect breeding ground for parasites.
Then there's the hairworm parasite, witch is present in tonnes of insects. Ever stepped on a bug, and seen a long "string" come out? That's a hairworm parasite. They cause crickets to eat each other even more and become suicidal in terms of jumping into water. So whenever you put them in the enclosure of a tarantula, or reptile to feed them they'd dash to the water bowl and dive in.
Isn't that true of most aquatic life too, though? I've never worked with crickets but I've treated more fish for parasites than I can count. It seems like there ought to be a way to treat the livestock for these things in some sort of bug farm setting.
Treating the insects might be possible, but the parasitic infections they can get are really wild. In captivity, they already resort to eating each other, witch is the perfect breeding ground for parasites.
Then there's the hairworm parasite, witch is present in tonnes of insects. Ever stepped on a bug, and seen a long "string" come out? That's a hairworm parasite. They cause crickets to eat each other even more and become suicidal in terms of jumping into water. So whenever you put them in the enclosure of a tarantula, or reptile to feed them they'd dash to the water bowl and dive in.