Quote Originally Posted by Charis View Post
Sometimes corns do actually eat them, though. On the corn forum a few months ago, there was a new member who bought a snow corn from a pet store & it had eaten a cricket. It died a week after they bought it because the shell of the cricket sliced it up inside.
Did they open the snake up? It's likely that the shell simply caused an impaction because it was not digested and could not be passed. A cricket would not cut the insides of a snake up, seeing as there are snakes out there that do eat crickets this would be rather bad if crickets could cut up intestines! I would have to assume that it had been force fed the cricket. I don't see a corn snake, no matter how hungry, willingly swallowing a live insect. Striking at one defensively, possibly!