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[123LordOfAnts123]

Interesting, nice find, Drew! 

 

Looks like your crickets suffer from the same mutation that a rare, particular strain of white eye American cockroach displays; the two orders are closely related to begin with.

 

Breed them up and sell some on arachnoboards. The white eye americans cost a few bucks a piece - apparently the mutation carries a lethal gene as mortality is high in nymphs.

[Roachant]

I wouldn't mind keeping field crickets as pets! I find they look way cooler than house crickets, even without their white walker eyes!
Don

[dermy]

Interesting, nice find, Drew! 

 

Looks like your crickets suffer from the same mutation that a rare, particular strain of white eye American cockroach displays; the two orders are closely related to begin with.

 

Breed them up and sell some on arachnoboards. The white eye americans cost a few bucks a piece - apparently the mutation carries a lethal gene as mortality is high in nymphs.

Never thought about that, I know the species your talking about, the Roaches look really cool with white eyes.

[dspdrew]

One of the females escaped the other day and I found her on my couch. Can you guess how I immediately knew it was one of them? Well, I put it back only to end up with it or another one escaping again. Since then the other two adults died, so I hope some of these babies live to be breeders.

[AnthonyP163]

What happened? Just found out about this journal, wondering if they're still doing well!

[Serafine]

Just a normal color mutation. If you breed fruit flies long enough you'll get lots of different eye colors (red, black, white...).

 

Insects, especially those that suffer from prolongued inbreeding and a lack of predation, are far more diverse than you'd think - I remember when were making color vision tests with flies at a university lecture and our first test fly wasn't even able to see colors AT ALL. Took us three or four flies to actually find one with all color receptors working (apparently we got the lucky batch containing all the freak flies).

Edited by Serafine, November 29 2017 - 3:37 PM.

[Hunter]

they might have a mutation but they could have a rare lass-worm, that is common in snalles,crickets, and pray mantises