House Your Crickets

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House the crickets. For a breeding colony of these insects you will need two containers. These can be plastic, metal
or glass, but need lids with holes for air circulation. Old aquariums work very well.
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Make hiding places for the crickets. Place the tubes from paper towel or toilet paper roles or pieces of cardboard
eggs crates into the cricket palace.
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Shade your crickets from direct light. Your cricket house will need to be placed in a shady spot with good
ventilation.
Breed Your Crickets
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Feed the crickets well. Like most insects, they will eat finely ground oatmeal, commercial cricket food and minced
fruits and vegetables.
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Water the crickets. Soak a paper towel or sponge and wring most of the water out of it, then place it in the cricket
container and they will suck the water out of it. Replace it every other day.
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Provide nesting material. Place a small container with 2 to 3 inches of damp sand or peat moss on the floor of the
cricket container. Breeding crickets will lay their eggs in this material.
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Check the nesting material 3 or 4 times a week to make sure it stays moist. Spray with water when necessary. When
the nesting material is filled with small white oval cricket eggs -- after 4 to 7 days -- remove it to an incubator.
Hatch and Raise Baby Crickets
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Prepare the incubator. This is as simple as placing the container of nesting material on a heating pad. Make sure you
have a lid with small holes for air circulation for this container.
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Watch for hatchlings. Once the eggs have begun to hatch, move the container to a sweater box with holes in the lid
for air. Keep the box on the heating pad.
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Place a jar lid of cricket food and a sponge soaked in water (and wrung out) on the bottom of the box. The babies
will stay in the box, enjoying the heat, the food and the water.
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Remove and discard the nesting material once all the eggs have hatched. When the babies have grown to about 1/4
of an inch, place 50 to 75 of them back in the original breeding containers to keep your colony alive and
reproducing.

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