Quote Originally Posted by Gnag the nameless View Post
Crickets can be carriers of pinworms? I've heard of pinworms before in cats, but pinworms in crickets is new to me. That's a bit worrying. Would they hurt my frogs if they had them? Also, are there any specific ways to tell if a cricket carries a pinworm? Sorry if this is a lot of questions.
yes, cats and dogs and humans and a lot of other species can have pinworms, but most of them are specific to host species, people can't get infected with frog pinworms and vise versa. no way to tell if crickets are carriers, you will see tiny white things in a frog poop that will be trying to get away, no need to worry unless you actually see them in a poop, because if so there must be a very big quantities in a frog intestines and that is when you want to get panacur really fast if you don't see them but you notice frog lethargic, loss of appetite, poop changes - then you want to do fecal to make sure they don;t have those nasty creatures.

would store-bought nightcrawlers carry parasites?
no