Crickets Eating Lettuce

By Miss Cellania in Animals & Pets, Video Clips on Nov 6, 2008 at 10:37 am


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This time-lapse video shows how 40,000 crickets eat an entire head of lettuce in an hour’s time. -via the Presurfer


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  1. Gail Pink
    Nov 6th, 2008 at 11:05 am

    Impressive! I wonder if Trent Teznor could use that clip in a Nine Inch Nail’s video.

  2. renderanything
    Nov 6th, 2008 at 11:13 am

    Wow, someone on a forum I frequent was just bit by a cricket. I just ‘gotta figure out how to forward this video to him.

  3. hooper
    Nov 6th, 2008 at 12:27 pm

    Do you mean Trent Reznor?

  4. Xopl
    Nov 6th, 2008 at 12:51 pm

    Next on Neatorama: Dermested beetles eat an entire human head in less than an hour!

  5. cooties
    Nov 6th, 2008 at 1:04 pm

    40,000 eating a lettuce = 40,000 crickets worth of cricket poo.

  6. Ali S.
    Nov 6th, 2008 at 1:08 pm

    @ Xopl

    Agh! No! Everytime I end up watching a clip where they show a dead animal being eaten by maggots in fast forward it makes me feel ill. The innards of the animal moving and expanding then collapsing! O_o

  7. Marina
    Nov 6th, 2008 at 1:48 pm

    The time-lapse makes this look scary

  8. Pudifoot
    Nov 6th, 2008 at 2:41 pm

    I want to see this video ran backwards. 40,000 crickets coming together to create a head of lettuce!

  9. DOJ
    Nov 6th, 2008 at 6:40 pm

    This is disgusting. I hate lettuce.

  10. sam
    Nov 6th, 2008 at 7:55 pm

    Reminds me of this time lapse video showing the decomposition of a baby pig: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yN8S6viF3Lw

    Don’t watch it if you have a weak stomach.

  11. Bret
    Nov 6th, 2008 at 8:43 pm

    I want to point out just how cruel this is…the lettuce was STILL ALIVE while it was being eaten!!!!

  12. stacyj
    Nov 6th, 2008 at 8:44 pm

    Aww, I had a cage full of pet crickets there for a while – I’d been wandering through PetSmart and happened upon all those bags of live crickets they sell as food for other critters, and I think it took about 15 seconds of examining them and their cute little crickety faces before I was buying a bag o’ bugs, a cricket cage, and a special jar of cricket food … they were almost as much fun as an ant farm and they really COULD chow down when you fed them something they liked …


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