Crickets are tough little suckers!!!

[Hasty8]

Re: Crickets are tough little suckers!!!

Originally posted by 1stdeadeye
My oldest has Anoles. They are tiny lizards. They will only eat live crickets. Quite the pain.

So last night on the way home from the office I stop at petsmart and buy 2 dozen. Well being the holiday season, I run accross the street to the Deptford Mall. Do a little shopping then head home. As I unloaded the trunk, I forgot all about the crickets in a bag on the front seat. About four hours later in the freezing cold, I remember them. I rushed out to the car and they were all frozen.

Rather then through them out, I dumped them in the tank to see if the anoles like popsicles. Well the tank is heated and has a special lamp as well. I checked back about 1/2 hour later and the crickets were ALIVE!!!! They thawed out in time to become dinner!

Tough little buggers, but the lizards seemed not to mind!

This is because they were not dead. They were catatonic. Remeber, insects are cold blooded, in that they do not generate their own body heat. When the temp drops to low they simply hibernate. Provided the temp does not drop far enough to create ice crystals [which would cause their bodies to shred]then they can survive the cold for a decent period of time.

[03vert]

i heard on the discovery channel that this cave cricket has something in its blood that keeps its vessels from bursting when its frozen. also ants "go to sleep" in the freezer and what i think pyro was hinting at was if you put them in that state you can tie a fishing line or a thread around them and let em fly around so its like a fly or a bee on a leash. gotta try that sometime...

[swat150]

Well, my Yellow Spotted Lizard that I caught down in Camp Green Lakes eats about handfull of crickets a day. Yup.....

[the_next_guy_]

cockroaches can live through massive nuclear radiation.

[1stdeadeye]

Originally posted by the_next_guy_
cockroaches can live through massive nuclear radiation.

So what? They still make a crunch noise when I step on them!

[Can_Opener]

Where I work, we threw a cricket into this huge spider's web, and the thing would not die. Instead we got the treat of watching the spider and the cricket duke it out for about 2 hours. It rocked.

[Jeremizzle]

mmmm...cricket popsicles

[1stdeadeye]

Originally posted by Can_Opener
Where I work, we threw a cricket into this huge spider's web, and the thing would not die. Instead we got the treat of watching the spider and the cricket duke it out for about 2 hours. It rocked.

So who won?