Red Stripe

I just fed my toad a cricket with a red stripe down its back plz tell me that cricket wasnt poisonous?

i caught this cricket outside that was blackish and it had spiked legs it looked like and it had this red stripe running down its back and i put it in with my toads and one of my females ate it can anyone tell me what kind of cricket it was or if it is poisoinous and if i should do something and what i can do if it is?

Uh oh, sounds like you fed a Lubber grasshopper and those ARE poisonous.

This is a page about Lubber grasshoppers: http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/orn/lubber.htm

This is a picture of what the young ones look like: http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/orn/lubber_nymph.htm

That one has a yellow stripe, but the stripe can be yellow, orange or even almost red.

Unfortunately, not much you can do now but wait. BUT yeah, definitely don't feed just any bug you find outside. You don't know if it hopped out of your neighbors yard and is covered in fresh pesticide or who knows what. Either raise your own feeder crickets and roaches or you can order them online.

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