facts about crickets: what food do crickets eat?

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What Do Crickets EatFacts About Crickets

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Basic Information About Crickets

Crickets have long antennae and legs that most closely resemble grasshoppers

Crickets are found on every continent except Antarctica

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Crickets create chirping sounds at night to:

help them find mates

scare off other male crickets

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Crickets create sounds using their wings!

Rubbing off their wings together, it can produce four different types of calls

The wings also act as amplifiers, which is how such a tiny creature can make so much noise

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Crickets are commonly used and sold as:

food for pet reptiles

some people like to keep them as pets themselves

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Crickets are considered to be good luck in many cultures!

This video also covers how to feed crickets

so that they are packed with nutrition for your reptiles

a process called gut loading

What do crickets eat?

Crickets are omnivorous!


Crickets can eat both plants and animals


depending on what's available to them


Crickets prefer rotting plant matter


but they will also munch on tender leaves, fungi and fruit


when the opportunity presents itself


Crickets like to burrow into the undergrowth of wooded areas


where there's plenty of food as well as shelter from predators.


If they can catch other insects or bugs

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they will also enjoy a meaty snack!


A colony of crickets that have run out of food


may even turn on weaker members


in an act of cannibalism!


Crickets will eat just about anything!


If one finds its way into your house


you may find chewed up papers and even holes in your clothes


from exploratory nibbling!

If you have pet crickets

A varied diet will keep them happy, healthy and non-cannibalistic


Leafy vegetables such as cabbage and lettuce


fruits like apples and grains like cereals and bread


are all healthy choices your crickets will love!

How To Feed Store Bought Crickets?

How to feed store bought Crickets?

Crickets make great food for

SnakesFish in larger aquariumsUsed as bait for fishing


Whether you want to keep your crickets alive as a pet,


for feeding snakes, or to have them for the next time you go fishing


you need to feed them well!


The crickets you purchase in a store will normally not live more than a week


because they have been fed a minimal diet


which mostly consisted of wet cardboard boxes


and the other crickets that died and were cannibalized.


the best way to get crickets eating


is to change the food you feed them every few days.


Start by slicing up an apple!


if you have apples or other fruits that have started to get over ripe


your pet crickets will love to eat them!


If you have leftover grits or oatmeal


your pet crickets will be more than happy to finishthem for you!


If you want to feed them something more natural


you can always go to the woods and find rotten branches


and other detritus on the forest floor.

Do you have any experience in rearing crickets as pets or feeding stuff?

Let us know what you think using the comment section below this video!

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