# All of a Sudden, All My Crickets Die In A Matter of Hours

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 25, 2012, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-of-a-sudden-all-my-crickets-die-in-a-matter-of-hours/642043 "2012-11-25T05:48:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\
**Post date:** [November 28, 2012, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-of-a-sudden-all-my-crickets-die-in-a-matter-of-hours/642043/41 "2012-11-28T23:10:35Z")

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> [@YogSosoth](#):
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> I pity the one who has to do the chalk outline for 50 dead crickets

They don’t do that much anymore. Now the CSI crickets just canvas the scene with photographs.

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**Author:** ![rufustheking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/47e85d/32.png) [@rufustheking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rufustheking)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-of-a-sudden-all-my-crickets-die-in-a-matter-of-hours/642043/42 "2012-11-29T14:57:10Z")

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Does the irony of all this strike anyone else? Have to have healthy live crickets to feed them to another creature? Kind of like treating death row inmate for terminal cancer.

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**Author:** ![MarvinKitFox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ba0ec/32.png) [@MarvinKitFox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MarvinKitFox)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2012, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-of-a-sudden-all-my-crickets-die-in-a-matter-of-hours/642043/43 "2012-11-30T15:29:45Z")

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> [@rufustheking](#):
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> Does the irony of all this strike anyone else? Have to have healthy live crickets to feed them to another creature? Kind of like treating death row inmate for terminal cancer.

Ok, mr. morbid.  
Aside from water, name _ONE_ thing that you eat for food that wasn’t alive previously, or currently, as you eat it.

Simple law of nature. To live, you need to eat. To eat, you need to kill.  
Even light-fuelled green plants live off the decaying corpse of the sun.

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**Author:** ![cher3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2012, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-of-a-sudden-all-my-crickets-die-in-a-matter-of-hours/642043/44 "2012-11-30T18:14:41Z")

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> [@rufustheking](#):
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> Does the irony of all this strike anyone else? Have to have healthy live crickets to feed them to another creature? Kind of like treating death row inmate for terminal cancer.

Believe me, if our frogs and toads would eat Purina Amphibian Chow, we would give it to them. They don’t recognize anything as food unless it is moving.

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