Gateway Bug

Well the crickets showed up today, in slightly rough shape. They were packed in a box with some egg flats and a few (by then moldy) carrot pieces, We decided to sort through and separate the living from the dead before putting them in the freezer. It turned out to be about as easy as you might expect, which is to say, not very. Our strategy was to take them outside so as not to let any loose in the house and one by one remove the egg flats, and grabbing any that were moving. It worked, but it turns out crickets are not very cooperative when it comes to that. Fortunately they are natural hiders, so most of the time when they got away the just tried to run back under the flat. Sarah catching crickets

All in all the process took a little over 30 minutes. I'm not sure exactly how many we've got, there were more dead than I was expecting, but I think we've got a fair amount. I think the moral here is to buy local. Either that or find a better shipper. Tomorrow hopefully we'll try cooking them up and see how they turn out. The yield