Live Cricket Support

Caring For Your Live Crickets

Normal Care

  • Maintain temperatures of 80 to 85 degrees. Huddled crickets are too cold. Dead, black or wet looking crickets are too hot.
  • Store crickets in an aquarium, cricket hotel or condo, or other holding box with egg flats for crawl space and darkness.
  • Holding boxes should be cleaned only with water in-between cricket orders.
  • Always have fresh water. This can be done with a watering set-up. For 1 to 2 week old crickets, use a moist sponge.
  • You can purchase our feed or feed can be unmedicated chicken feed or oatmeal.
  • Keep insecticides, pest strips and cleaning products away from your crickets. When crickets are dead on their backs, they have been poisoned by some external source.

40Special Winter Care & Handling

DO NOT OPEN CRICKET BOX. Warm crickets in the box overnight near a heat source (heat vent, etc.). This will allow them to recover from hibernation. After this process, you may empty the crickets into your normal holding box.

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Caring for King Meal Worms (Super Worms)

Normal Care

  • Maintain temperatures of 80 to 85 degrees. If worms come to the top, they are too warm.
  • Cup Maintenance: Keep peat moss moist.
  • Bulk Maintenance: Store in sweater box, with moist peat moss and add firm vegetables (sliced).
  • Keep insecticides, pest strips and cleaning products away from your mealworms

Caring for Snookum’s Best and Giant Meal Worms (Feeders)

Normal Care

  • Maintain temperatures of 80 to 85 degrees. If worms come to the top, they are too warm.
  • Cup Maintenance: Keep peat moss moist.
  • Bulk Maintenance: Store in sweater box, with moist peat moss and add firm vegetables (sliced).
  • Keep insecticides, pest strips and cleaning products away from your mealworms

Still have questions? No problem! Send us an email or call (800) 634-2445.