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    Default Weird minute bug in with my crickets...???

    Anyone know what this thing is? It went into the dusting jar (has Reptocal on it) along with the crickets I fed my WTF crew tonight... is this a cricket larvae or something else? Anything I need to worry about...?

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    Crickets don't have a larval stage, when they hatch they look like miniature crickets (minus a few adult parts).

    Looks like a dermestid beetle larvae- I had the same question a few years ago: http://www.frogforum.net/food-feeder...-crickets.html

    I removed them from my cricket bin, but didn't feed them to my frogs and all was well.

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    Default Re: Weird minute bug in with my crickets...???

    That looks just like it! Thanks! Yeah I'm not going to feed these to my frogs either, not with all those spiny hairs... I don't want to look in my tank one day and find cleaned frog skeletons either!

    I re-learned something about crickets I already knew and forgot too... lol. Thanks
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    2.0.0 South American Bird Poo Frogs (Hyla marmorata): Ribbit & Rupert


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    Default Re: Weird minute bug in with my crickets...???

    They are harmless and morph into a small dark beetle, my fire belly toads Bombina b. varigata will take the larva quite readily as will my A. debilis, but they wont take the adult beetle even though they are only small.

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