What the heck happened to all my crickets??

[Bottomfeeder]

I put some crickets in for my Gecko yesterday, and today they are all dead, upside down, with their front legs crossed :WTF:
The legs crossed position is what happens to cockroaches and Wasps that die of pesticides and insect poison

I'm kinda scared for my Gecko, any advice??

 

[snakeguy101]

did you cook using a teflon pan? I know some animals can be sensitive to those fumes... maybe that is it?

 

[Vicious_Fish]

Did you gut load and hydrate them first before feeding them to your gecko?

 

[packer43064]

What is this gecko's substrate. Could have ingested some and keeled over.

 

[Mike D]

thats weird. is it hot in the cage? like hotter than normal?
clean anything in the house with any new chemicals?
anything new over by the gecko or cricket cage?
crickets fed?

 

[Chris Anderson]

Its a cricket paralysis virus. It hit the EU back in 2002 and decimated their house cricket producers (I understand many still can't produce House Crickets and have to raise black crickets). It (or a similar virus) seems to be effecting a lot of the west coast cricket producers now. My understanding is that all the crickets die before they are able to reproduce. Could be a real problem for the US reptile industry...

Chris

 

[Amazon_Addict]

I guess this means people will have to switch exclusively to roaches.

 

[Vicious_Fish]

Well if that's the case then I'm glad I have a dubia roach colony.

 

[Jeox]

Well if that's the case then I'm glad I have a dubia roach colony.

Same. I breed death head hybrids, and would never go back to crickets.

 

[Amazon_Addict]

As easy as roaches are, and do to the lack of smell, I figured more people would be doing this.