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Warning! These crickets are not in any container other than the outside box!
I now have a cricket infestation of my entire house because, assuming as any normal person would that they would be contained in some kind of critter container. Little did I know, a live action recreation of the Plague of Egypt was about to be performed in front of...er...ON my face.
I cut open the outside box and HUNDREDS of crickets jumped out, on me, into my bedroom & the entire house. They are in my underwear drawer, closet, and crawling on my toothbrush. My roommate is always screaming. They drown in our coffee, eat my bread, and are on every wall, and scare the crap out of me by jumping on me while watching scary movies.
And they excrete everywhere!
Why is there no warning or at least logical packaging?
I don't know what to do, I don't want to spray the entire house with insecticide, other than borrow a hundred lizards.
I just hope they don't breed.
***
Update, I've upped the stars because upon consideration, the actual crickets were healthy and quite spry, despite my "traumatizing" experience. Once I got used to the chirping at night, it was rather pleasant. The next time I ordered crickets, there was a sticker warning saying that the package contained no cricket containment, and to open with caution. That's all anyone could ask for!
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Purchased 500 crickets as food for my bearded dragon. When they arrived and box was opened over 75% of the crickets were dead. Not only was my time and money wasted, now I have to go buy additional food at an extra cost. Also, there was a spider in the box with the crickets. I know nothing about spiders so I have no clue if it is dangerous or not but it shouldn't have been in there. Very unhappy about this incident, and now I have to send this horrible smelling box of dead crickets back. Disgusting for me and the carrier.
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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 29, 2013
I now have a cricket infestation of my entire house because, assuming as any normal person would that they would be contained in some kind of critter container. Little did I know, a live action recreation of the Plague of Egypt was about to be performed in front of...er...ON my face.
I cut open the outside box and HUNDREDS of crickets jumped out, on me, into my bedroom & the entire house. They are in my underwear drawer, closet, and crawling on my toothbrush. My roommate is always screaming. They drown in our coffee, eat my bread, and are on every wall, and scare the crap out of me by jumping on me while watching scary movies.
And they excrete everywhere!
Why is there no warning or at least logical packaging?
I don't know what to do, I don't want to spray the entire house with insecticide, other than borrow a hundred lizards.
I just hope they don't breed.
***
Update, I've upped the stars because upon consideration, the actual crickets were healthy and quite spry, despite my "traumatizing" experience. Once I got used to the chirping at night, it was rather pleasant. The next time I ordered crickets, there was a sticker warning saying that the package contained no cricket containment, and to open with caution. That's all anyone could ask for!
Warning: Packaging caused household infestation!
By CC on March 29, 2013
Warning! These crickets are not in any container other than the outside box!By CC on March 29, 2013
I now have a cricket infestation of my entire house because, assuming as any normal person would that they would be contained in some kind of critter container. Little did I know, a live action recreation of the Plague of Egypt was about to be performed in front of...er...ON my face.
I cut open the outside box and HUNDREDS of crickets jumped out, on me, into my bedroom & the entire house. They are in my underwear drawer, closet, and crawling on my toothbrush. My roommate is always screaming. They drown in our coffee, eat my bread, and are on every wall, and scare the crap out of me by jumping on me while watching scary movies.
And they excrete everywhere!
Why is there no warning or at least logical packaging?
I don't know what to do, I don't want to spray the entire house with insecticide, other than borrow a hundred lizards.
I just hope they don't breed.
***
Update, I've upped the stars because upon consideration, the actual crickets were healthy and quite spry, despite my "traumatizing" experience. Once I got used to the chirping at night, it was rather pleasant. The next time I ordered crickets, there was a sticker warning saying that the package contained no cricket containment, and to open with caution. That's all anyone could ask for!
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