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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...

Cricket Growing Tools cricket tub cricket egg bedding Let Pinhead Crickets Be The Catalyst For Your Cricket Grow Room Whether you accidentally placed an order for the incorrect cricket size, or are actively breeding your feeder insects, the care for your pinhead crickets can be a bit of a mystery. Baby crickets are quite tiny, generally tiny enough to escape from the usual enclosures one might use for their bugs, and so there’s a little bit of specialized care that goes into caring for them. Pinhead Cricket The Enclosure As we all know, even with the best of enclosures, sometimes...

Don't Feed Dead Crickets To Your Bearded Dragon The title pretty much says it all.  But just to reinforce the idea, don't feed dead crickets to your bearded dragon.  Now, this comment probably comes with a few questions.  Such as, why would I have dead crickets?  Or, why can't I feed my pet dead crickets?  And sure, these are good questions.   But when you have crickets for sale, it shouldn't be too difficult to understand why one might come across the deceased.  But if it needs to be explained, then here's the explanation: When you ship live crickets year...

What is Brumating, and How Can I Stop it? If you're unfamiliar with the reptile world, then you might think brumating is a cultural trend, similar to bromance.  However, if you are familiar with the reptile world, then you'll know that these ectothermic animals get lethargic during the colder seasons.  And that lethargy is what is referred to as brumation. Because amphibians and reptiles are cold blooded, they can't regulate their own body temperature like mammals.  This makes them highly dependent on the temperature of their surroundings.   So when the the temperatures decline, and the seasons get colder, you're pet will naturally begin to slow down. ...