yeah i got a box of 500 crickets at the last show i went to and silly me opened the box inside thinking that i would just lift out the egg crates and place them nicely in the cricket container and everything would be just dandy. needless to say it was a flurry of little bodies flying every which way. i got my kitty, who loves to catch loose crickets, and let her have at it. the kitchen was a cricket massacre area for about a week. good times.

oh, and bpbabe--about those mealies not escaping--my sister once accidentally knocked over her mealworm container in her room when we were younger and still living at home. zillions of microscopic worms and eggs nestled deep down into the plush carpet where the vacuum couldn't get to them. we found mealies crawling out of her room for years. :shock: