Weird - albino cricket !

[flybyferns]

I have raised my own crickets for over 2 years.
This is the first time I have had an albino cricket.


Creepy !
Lynn

[frogluver]

Ooo, does it have those redish eyes? Can you post a picture of it?

[Kristen87]

Pretty sure crickets go white when they shed their skin, my cockroaches do that too. You may not see them as often because after shedding, their skin is softer so they tend to hide more for protection. They look pretty weird though!

[flybyferns]

Pretty sure crickets go white when they shed their skin, my cockroaches do that too. You may not see them as often because after shedding, their skin is softer so they tend to hide more for protection. They look pretty weird though!

Kristen, No, this is very different !
It has been that color for many days.
He ( no egg shaft) has been in the bin for a while - because he is too big to feed to my red eyes !
He is ghostly looking !

[GrifTheGreat]

Yep that's an albino. You can tell the exoskeleton has fully hardened and the wings developed.

[flybyferns]

Yep that's an albino. You can tell the exoskeleton has fully hardened and the wings developed.

Creepy !

[flybyferns]

Ooo, does it have those redish eyes? Can you post a picture of it?

I have saved him.
I put him in the reproduction bin. (I could not resist!)
I think it has black eyes, Autumn ?
I will try to get a better pic !
Lynn

[frogluver]

I have saved him.
I put him in the reproduction bin. (I could not resist!)
I think it has black eyes, Autumn ?
I will try to get a better pic !
Lynn

Awesome, thanks!

Edit: Oh, I didn't see the original pic you had until now lol....

[flybyferns]

Autumn and Kristen,
You both like this guy !
I'm having a heart attack !!! lol
I'm going to have a nightmare tonight !!!!
This is ONE truly , creepy, looking cricket.
I had to touch it to move it into the (you know what bin !!! ) hahahah
Gosh knows what I'll have if he reproduces !

[frogluver]

Autumn and Kristen,
You both like this guy !
I'm having a heart attack !!! lol
I'm going to have a nightmare tonight !!!!
This is ONE truly , creepy, looking cricket.
I had to touch it to move it into the (you know what bin !!! ) hahahah
Gosh knows what I'll have if he reproduces !

Haha, my mom would be the same way! She gets jittery around my cricket container all the time (shhh don't tell her I said that lol)
A colony of albino crickets....now that would be creepy !

[Odica]

I will buy some lol

[ViperJr]

Now, if ony he was able to produce silent/non-smelly offspring too. Sweet mother of God... that would be fantastic

Psst, they're called dubias... but don't tell anyone

Jokes aside, both thumbs up for JeffreH's information about crickets and insects in general.