Corn Snakes eating crickets?

[Skiploder]

Many neonate colubrids that we all believe to feed exclusively on rodents do and will consume insects, fish and amphibians in the wild. An 8 inch long baby corn is rarely in a position to come across an abandoned mouse nest full of pinkies. However, to subject a captive snake to a tank full of live crickets because you have distorted views about feeding rodents is just dumb.

Lon:

It is indisputable that there are species of colubrids that eat insects, among other things.

However, the study that gave rise to the notion that corn snakes eat crickets has been too often misquoted and misconstrued. The digestive content study indicated nothing other than the crickets were the prey of the prey that the corn snakes were feeding on.