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#1192552
Lilcyndilouwho
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Cricket parasites???? 
I ordered crickets online like I usually do, only I bought from a different place this time. I noticed that there was these little black worm (for lack of a better word) things about 5-7mm long. My crickets started to die, and when they did, they were red!! Someone told me they were a parasite, a wolly worm, or something like that. I would like to find more info on these guys, what harm an affected cricket could do to a chameleon. I did toss my whole batch, but I don’t know if I’ve already fed one off to my cham. Can someone direct me to where I can learn more about these things.
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03/01/07 02:15pm
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#1193756
C.cyber
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Message To: Lilcyndilouwho In reference to Message Id: 1192552
Cricket parasites????
i cant help u..but what website did u get the crickets from?
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03/02/07 02:24pm
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#1193760
C.cyber
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Message To: C.cyber In reference to Message Id: 1193756
Cricket parasites????
ok so i was looking up the parasite thing and i found this http://lancaster.unl.edu/Feature/GuessSept29.htm i hope this helps
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03/02/07 02:26pm
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#1193877
Lilcyndilouwho
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Message To: C.cyber In reference to Message Id: 1193760
Cricket parasites????
Thanks c.cyber, but it came up as did not match any documents. I appreciate you helping me. To answer the other question, I got the crickets from Lucky Lure Cricket Farm.
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03/02/07 03:59pm
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#1194229
C.cyber
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Message To: Lilcyndilouwho In reference to Message Id: 1193877
Cricket parasites????
srry the site didnt work but the parasite name was a horsehair worm and they r parasites to crickets and grasshoppers but nothing else.
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03/02/07 08:20pm
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#1194444
Lilcyndilouwho
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Message To: C.cyber In reference to Message Id: 1194229
Cricket parasites????
That’s ok,Thank you everyone who helped me, I found out what they are!!! Here;s a website about them. I think now that these guys aren’t what killed the crickets, I just thought it was them, I don’t know, It still wasn’t cool to see dear red crickets.
http://www.ummz.umich.edu/mammals/dermestid.html
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03/02/07 11:43pm
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Nero
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Message To: Lilcyndilouwho In reference to Message Id: 1192552
Cricket parasites????
These parasites are called horsehair worms or Gordian worms. They do kill crikets by taking over their brain and making them move toward water. The only way they can reproduce is in water. The criket is only an intermediate host. Other insects that travel with crikets are dermestid beetles, they look like little black hairy meal worms. They are harmless and just eat dead and decaying crickets.
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01/13/08 11:13pm
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#2052596
Sqishy Cricket
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Message To: Nero In reference to Message Id: 1577946
 Cricket parasites????
I feed my baby bearded dragon two crickets last night. When I shook the egg carton into his tank two crickets and one small black worm went inside. He ate the little black worm too fast for me to take it back out. Now I’m worried that this little worm will harm him. I just bought these crickets from Petsmart three days ago, and they gave me the egg carton too. I hope our little guy will be ok.
This worm was not long like the horsehair worm, has anyone else seen this?
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08/07/09 10:40am
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