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« on: September 26, 2008, 01:08:21 AM »
Why? I have NO idea!  One of my customers came in and gave it to me...he caught it while hunting a few days ago.  Anyone have any experience with the best things to feed it?  He's (she's?) already eaten a big cricket, but I know they primarily eat dead organic matter.  Anyone ever been bit?  I'm just kind of wondering what to expect...just in case!

I haven't seen them in years, and forgot how freaking HUGE they are!  Like an ant/wasp cross on steroids!  Shocked

Here 'ya go, Fossillady....
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« Reply #1 on: September 26, 2008, 08:30:43 AM »
can you post a pic? I have a BS in entomology!
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« Reply #2 on: September 26, 2008, 10:45:44 AM »
modified OP....
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« Reply #3 on: September 28, 2008, 01:49:15 AM »
Awesome! Does it bite?
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« Reply #4 on: September 28, 2008, 10:26:08 AM »
I don't plan on giving it a chance too!  From what I've heard, read and observed, those pincers pack quite a whallup!!
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« Reply #5 on: October 01, 2008, 02:10:26 PM »
For future reference, fresh green beens that are beginning to turn.  That thing ate a 4 in. green bean overnight! 
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« Reply #6 on: October 02, 2008, 11:13:03 AM »
....and then he turned a green/brown and died yesterday!  Angry

Maybe greenbeans are NOT a jerusalem cricket diet staple... Undecided
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« Reply #7 on: October 02, 2008, 03:46:09 PM »
sorry to hear that!
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« Reply #8 on: October 07, 2008, 03:07:55 PM »
they burrow and live in the dirt. i believe they eat roots and dead matter... in mexico they are called el nino  de la tierra meaning child of the dirt. i hear they sheirk when you put them in the microwave though i never have or will do it personably.. that's all i know
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« Reply #9 on: October 07, 2008, 03:26:45 PM »
I have not looked them up or anything but I used to work at a museum and took care of many inverts there. We got in some huge lubber grasshoppers once. They were fed romaine lettuce. They didnt live long but that was probably mainly because this place shipped them out on theyre last couple weeks of life anyways. Maybe you can try the lettuce if you ever come across another one.
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« Reply #10 on: February 17, 2009, 11:24:16 PM »
I have seen these guys many times in my yard but, I have always heard of them to be june bugs. I  seem to find them  burried under things, and usually when they come out randomly they die within a few hours. I'm not sure why.
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