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Breeding crickets is critical to anyone trying to support a family of reptiles.  Take these pro tips to ensure that your crickets have the best environment, and breed at maximum overdrive.  

Intro to Crickets House crickets, Acheta domesticus (Orthoptera: Gryllidae), make a great feeder insect for your reptiles or chickens. In fact, rearing crickets ensures that you have a constant supply for your pets, especially during the colder months. As mentioned in our article [ab1] about raising chickens, crickets have high protein levels and contain high amounts of digestible amino acids. Be sure to watch our YouTube video[ab2] for information about care of your crickets after receiving them in the mail.  Cricket Lifecycle Rearing insects can be a relatively easy task, but it will require maintenance and planning. To begin, it...

What Do Cricket Eggs Look Like? Table of Contents A fun and sometimes challenging project, raising crickets can save you money in the long run.  Assume that you have great breeding stock from Critter Depot.  What now?  You’re going to need an incubator! How to Set Up a Cricket Incubator Most experienced and successful breeders use a Rubbermaid type of plastic product.  A container that is 12"x 8"x 3" (3 inches high) is sufficient for 250 - 500 crickets.  Some cricket breeders like using a lid.  Lids are okay as long as around 18-20 small holes are drilled into the...

Here's The Cricket Life Cycle Cheat Sheet to give you a Fast & Furious Head Start on your Cricket Curriculum Mother Cricket Lays hundreds of Eggs Eggs incubate for 14 days “nymph” hatches from the egg “nymph” grows into a cricket And here's the detailed version of that story... The glamorous life of a feeder cricket starts with an impregnated female.  The female crickets have the ovipositors.  Many people think these are tails.  But instead, they're a tubes from which the impregnated female cricket deposits her eggs.  And the mother cricket can lay hundreds of eggs at a time.   But she...