Weird - albino cricket !

[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 !

[GrifTheGreat]

There is a species of cricket called Ghost Crickets, but they don't look like that.

[flybyferns]

Okay , so here he is. 'Casper the Friendly Ghost'-- cricket !!
I shinned a light in is eyes- as close I wanted to get. No red.
He is different, for sure.
NOT jumpy. And, he likes to hang out in the egg laying area.









I'll keep him , and see what happens?
OMG, now I have to worry about a cricket !!!!!

Lynn

[JeffreH]

Beautiful = )

It isn't an albino though, as insects do not contain tyrosinase and can therefore not produce melanin.

That being said - it could be a random phenotype. I would breed it to see if it is genetic. Could just be a reduced pigment specimen, hypopigmented, etc.

Follow up question: does he feel different than the other crickets? Is his exoskeleton as hard?

[Kristen87]

Okay , so here he is. 'Casper the Friendly Ghost'-- cricket !!
I shinned a light in is eyes- as close I wanted to get. No red.
He is different, for sure.
NOT jumpy. And, he likes to hang out in the egg laying area.









I'll keep him , and see what happens?
OMG, now I have to worry about a cricket !!!!!

Lynn

Hahaha how cute, you now have a pet cricket :P Bet you never expected that one!