New high school senior prank just dropped…
omg how funny. Kirsten basically paid money for a surprise cricket infestation, and ironically, now she has to find even more crickets to feed the pets while her place is infested with crickets lmaooooo i would love to hear Kirsten honestly express her thoughts and emotions about this instead of that toned down review 🤣🤣🤣
She could probably release a few bigger crickets and they would clean up the little guys for her. Yeah yeah something about an old lady and a fly.
Maybe some big green grasshoppers so they’re easy to find once the job is done.
Grasshoppers are like meat animals but insects.
This happened to me with this same company, but with 500 cockroaches!!!
And it didn’t actually happen to me… it actually happened to my post office. But my local hub called to let me know that my package had been damaged in transit and was undeliverable. I was like “UH OH”
They gave me the WORST treatment every time I went in there to mail stuff out after that. Stopped going there for nearly 2 years until they stopped being mad. LOL Went across town to avoid them.
I know it wasn’t my fault and it was the company, but I understand why they were pissed.
From then on, I messaged insect sellers to request they securely bag / contain the bugs so I won’t be blacklisted from my local hub. They typically get a kick out of the story and my bugs have been securely packaged ever since!
Look, while I’m not saying the local hub employees were right, if I associated someone with the experience of dealing with 500 cockroaches I might not be able to really mask my contempt either 🤢
That’s why I didn’t judge them too harshly for the treatment. That had to be… “not fun” to deal with for those involved.
With some exceptions, I’m not sure I could maintain my contempt for someone for two years.
edit: Without further and/or ongoing provocation.
I’m disappointed to hear that that about Josh’s Frogs. I’m a fan of the company overall and had great experience with them, but I have never bought live food or live animals from them. So, I’m a little surprised to hear that they’re shipping roaches and crickets this way. Otherwise, they’re my go to for a lot of other hobby related stuff, so I hope they have made some improvements on that front.
For clarity, I imagine that the species of roach you ordered were likely something like dubias.
For anybody that might see this, most of the roach species used as feeders (or even kept as “pets”) are not associated with diseases in humans and would be highly unlikely to become an infestation issue in most domestic situations outside of fully tropical climates (and even then it would be unlikely). These are critters that need stable, warm temperatures and fairly high humidity, as well as appropriate food sources and surprisingly clean environments just to keep them alive in cultivation. Your home or the post office (in North America) is unlikely to be conducive.
I used to work as an exterminator. So many people don’t understand that the little brown German cockroaches are the infesting guys. Big American roaches do not infest.
These are the bad guys-
If you see even a single one of the babies you need to take action immediately. Before I knew, about 12 years ago, we saw a group of the babies in our bathtub. Our slumlord told us not to worry, those are just “water bugs”. The new tenants below us brought roaches and bedbugs. The infestation was so bad I have PTSD from it. We couldn’t even eat in our apartment and it took three months to save up enough money to move. Luckily fast food wasn’t nearly as expensive back then, because we couldn’t save money by cooking at home.
When we moved we had to throw away most of our belongings, and we were poor as fuck. They were in the electronics of the microwave.
If I recently watched the Game Grumps play Bad Mojo, do I need to be concerned?
To be fair, this was a while ago! Plus it was during C×vid, so I’m sure things were much more difficult logistically around that time. If you’re wary, I’d suggest you give them a chance! Don’t think they operate that way as a current standard.
And, yes, they were dubias. I live in the far far north, and they do not survive the cold here. Heck, they barely can survive my house if they breech containment!
What is Cxvid?
Fucking amazing. I’m howling
Having a hard time blaming the post office workers here lol
Are you farming the cockroaches for protein/milking them or something? I can’t fathom any other reason why anyone would want cockroaches other that these weird cases I read about on some science magazine.
Edit: just remembered they can be used as food for pets.
Your edit is correct. Food for the lizards.
Dang, y’all really jump to the worst options first. 😕
It’s too late, I’ve already added the tag “cockroach milker” next to your username
Yeah, you’d like that, wouldn’t you?
People get lonely at home alone
You can have fun with your 500 closest friends
If you’ve got 500 you’ll have 5000 in a week if they’re the bad kind.
That’s why I always carry my tapeworm with me wherever I go!
extreme loneliness meet cockroaches? Hmmm… Make it set in Cthulhu mythos, sprinkle some kafka metamorphosis and you got yourself a nice PS1 styled indie horror game.
Ogtha
No.
I bred them when I had lizards
Oh my god hahaha
Why do people even buy bugs online anyway? Feeding pet snakes? Wouldn’t local pickup be better for everyone?
Of all the critters that people feed live “bugs” (i.e “bugs”) to, snakes are one of the least likely.
Food items like live crickets are usually fed to animals like lizards (probably most common example), frogs and other amphibians, fish, birds, predatory invertebrates (like spiders and scorpions), etc.
In the case of pinhead crickets, those are usually purchased (in large quantities) by people breeding insect eating species since the young are too small for anything larger than the youngest and tiniest food items or for people with a large collection of animals like poison dart frogs that need very small, fairly fragile food items.
As for the debate of local pick-up versus online orders, there are pros and cons to each, and different people have different situations and needs. At the end of the day, in my part of the world, pretty much all the places I’d go to pick up crickets locally are just getting them shipped in from large scale cricket breeders anyway, so if you need a bulk order of 1000+, it’s likely cheaper and easier just to order them online and have them shipped. Also important to note, these aren’t just random crickets someone collected in their back yard, these are a specific cultivated species that’s been grown in relatively sanitary conditions so that they aren’t carrying harmful parasites and disease or covered in dangerous pesticides and chemicals.
We did it at a wildlife rehab center I worked at. If we bought local we would clean out the local bug supply in a couple days. Which happened a couple times when we couldn’t get them online or a package got lost.
Not that I think that’s what this is. The packaging could be better, but also you order a box of crickets you get a box of crickets…
This reminds me of the post warning not to open a box of mealworms outside.
The warning was illustrated by you being attacked by a flock birds.
This one now always will tell bad jokes.
Tells a joke
*crickets*
Guys what is a good way of doing it?
Live bugs are always stored in a bag, bottle, or other sensible container. Not directly in the shipping box.
“Gardening” is the answer to the implied “why” :)
Pets that eat insects are the other answer
A clear plastic container
A netted rectangular prism inside a box?
Not alive for one
friends c:
Is this the next glitter bomb/ fart spray porch pirate trap?
I’m a fan of live ladybugs for pranks. You can buy 1500 ladybugs for like $9. They’re intended for garden pest control. They come with some wet food inside the container, (which provides both food and water for them) so they can live in the container for a day or two after being delivered. And their instinct when you open the container is to fly away, because they naturally want to spread out and get away from where they hatched.
Quietly pop that lid open during a housewarming party, and they’ll be finding ladybugs everywhere for weeks. At most, they’re a minor annoyance. So it’s not explicitly harmful or destructive like some of the other options. If anything, they’ll actually help control more harmful pests.
I think that would constitute as terrorism. Cause if it doesn’t legally, I’m retaliating like it is.
It’s a surprise tool that will help us later.
