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Aye, they eat the dead cricket bodys. Often used in taxidermy as well as they eat dead flesh and a load of them are capable of stripping the dead skin to the bone.

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are they dangerous?

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Lucifus is right,, its a dermestid beelte grub. many differnt sorts
Dunno specifically whihc is most comon in with crix.
All from the family Dermestidae or Coleoptera or something not 100%

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They are used in Taxidermy as they are able toeat all remaining flesh on bones, and manage to eat in most of the small fissures and cracks of the bones.
In fact i found that they ate everytihing except bones andtough ligaments, so you end up with an intact skeleton. Very fascinating if not a bit morbid.
not harmful in any sense, nor the beetles. inafct they cant bite you at all

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there really needs to be a sticky thread somewhere about these.

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Beasties1.0 Pony - Seamus1.0 BCI - Alcatraz0.1 Brachypelma Smithi - Muse0.1.2 Thrixopelma Pruriens - Belle, T1 and T30.0.2 Brachypelma Emilia - B1 and B20.0.1 Nhandu Chromatus - Digger0.0.1 Avicularia sp "Peru Purple" - Bramble0.0.10 Peruphasma Schultei0.0.3 Pandinus Imperator
6607.

+1.

And I dont know anyone in Taxidermy that actually uses these.

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Brachypelma albopilosum (Charlotte)
B. Schroederi (slings)
Grammostola sp. "North" Northern gold
G. aurerostriata (slings)
Cyclosternum fasciatum (slings)

Member of the BAS and AAS.

I have a freind who is into "stuffing for pleasure" so i will ask him if he can shed any light on the matter and let you all no.

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Awesome, i wondered how well they would do at the job.

You just have to google to know their for taxadermy

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Oh dear, oh dear...

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