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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeef" data-source="post: 234469" data-attributes="member: 36825">I've got a few Aphonopelmas that size and I've never had a problem with large crickets. I always assumed bites from crickets were more a danger when the tarantula was freshly molted. If you look at the way tarantulas eat, I think the chances of getting bitten by a cricket once they take them is minimal.On the rare occasion I give superworms, I crush their heads. Mealworms get their heads crushed as well when I give them to my little ones. It is more a burrowing issue than a biting issue, though I have heard whispers of superworms biting. Everyone else gets live stuff except for one. I have one with a particularly strong feeding response. If any of the crickets die on the way back from the pet store, I can drop them next to them and they pounce on it and eat it. Sucker!Will also confirm what m0Lsk said. My A. chalcodes & A. johnnicashi almost never eat.</blockquote>