We got some locusts as feeders but they are too big. Originally I was going to keep them in a tank sort of as pets (grew quite attached to little Jiminy who has a leg missing) but one of them moulted yesterday and grew wings so my OH is freaking out (he's a big girl).

Anyway, I was wondering how to humanely kill them? There's only 7 of them left. I know I can't put them in the freezer because it would be so slow and painful for them but if I cooled them down slowly in the fridge or outside or something would they just go to sleep?

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Generally a Humane way to kill a Locust is to give it to a Spider or Beardie

I've never actually had to kill one myself, so I don't actually know, sorry.

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size 10 or drop into hot oil, then season and eat, seriously, if you just chill it in the fridge, it will only go into torpor, not die. Freezer is the best place for it..........................then you've always got a handy late night snack!!

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Would putting it in the freezer not be really slow and painful?

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just squash it under a rock if its quick then its humane

Why not offer them to some one in your area with reps then you wouldnt have to kill them and they wouldnt go to waste

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It sounds stupid but I don't think I'd be able to squash it or anything like that! The only things I can kill are crickets, and that's because they are evil!

So if I put them in the fridge, they would sort of go into a hibernation like state and would be sort of sleeping, then I could put them in the freezer and they wouldn't feel it?

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(and a baby boa maybe)

that would work, but then, so would the freezer, they'd be asleep long before they died

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The freezer, they will be torpid before they freeze so fairly humane. Its their screams i hate...............

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OMG! Do they actually scream!!!!! I think I would be sick if I heard them screaming, poor things!

I think i may just get a mesh lid on our spare little tank and keep them then! There are only 7 so as long as we didn't let any eggs hatch, they surely won't live too long.

Guess I'd better add 0.0.7 Pingers to my sig then

PS. I don't know anyone with a BD (or anything that would eat them) near me and travelling is a bit of a problem at the moment

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1.0.0.BCI
2.1.0 Western Hognoses
1.0.0 classic corn
0.0.1 anery corn
0.0.1 creamsicle
0.0.1 albino banded kingsnake
0.0.1 goins kingsnake
0.0.1 axolotl
0.0.2 turtles
0.2.0 kittens
0.1.0 dog
1.0.0 boyfriend

0.0.1 whipsnake on the way
(and a baby boa maybe)