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Message: <blockquote data-quote="m0lsx" data-source="post: 234465" data-attributes="member: 29323">A dead cricket is fine, as is a mealworm. All of my slings, including my brunnipes when they were slings, were fed mealworms. What you do with mealworms is cut their head off. As that stops them burrowing & returning as darkling beetles.Mealworms continue to move slightly for well over 24 hours after beheading & having their head cut off, means the slings get easy access to the soft inner food. Plus, a whole mealworm is easy to find & remove. Never leave food in a tarantula enclosure for more than 24 hours. Unless you know your T & that it's a slow responder to food. Dead food goes mouldy & live food stresses the T & crickets etc can harm a moulting T. So removing uneaten food is important.But a dead cricket is perfectly OK.</blockquote>