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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...

Cricket substrate: How to satisfy your critter's substrate needs Just like a human needs a house, a cricket needs its substrate. If you have just recently bought crickets, you might be wondering: How do I know which substrate to choose for my crickets? Well, you’re in luck. The Critter Depot has researched several options that are proven to satisfy your critters substrate needs. It gets better: These substrates are also affordable, so you won’t be breaking the bank. But, what is substrate and why do my crickets need it? A substrate is the material or bedding on the floor of...

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...

My crickets deserve the best habitat known to man and insect!  But what should I put inside of their new home? This is a common question that crosses the minds of many cricket enthusiasts.  And although the answer may seem obvious, it's difficult to know what goes on inside the mind of a cricket, to meet their complete satisfaction.  And although we consider ourselves to be cricket whisperers, we'd by lying to you if we told you we took the time to get to know every cricket we shipped across the world.  So the best we can offer is what...

Crickets for Human Consumption A lot of people might find themselves turned off by the idea of consuming crickets. There’s a variety of benefits to adding some bugs into your diet though, both on a personal and a societal level. As the population rises we’ll be seeking alternative sources of protein to add to our diets, and crickets are already beginning to show up in some places as a viable food source. Benefits to You Crickets make for a fantastic source of protein, of course, but there’s also a few little known factors relating to their value as a food...