Cricket Breeding - The whole life cycle of crickets

What I always found interesting about crickets when I lived in Wisconsin was that there were so many of them they were the noise of the night in Summer. I remember shouting "Shut UP!" and they would actually shut up for a half second, then one would chirp, then two, then two thousand all at once. LOL, it always amazed and amused me. It taught me about something in life, it takes only one brave voice to speak out and then thousands will follow.

Am I the only one who loves crickets?! I think they are pretty cute, and I find them fascinating to watch. So many people hate them ...... and I've never understood why. They don't bite, and the males chirping sounds so beautiful and relaxing to me ..... maybe because when you go outside on a warm summers night you can hear them, and it makes me think of camping ..... but for whatever the reason I just love them. I feel really bad when I feed them to my mantis ..... (don't worry I feed her other insects as well .... I know crickets shouldn't be a staple diet item) ......... I don't find them that stinky because I keep their enclose super clean .... and I don't have many die offs ...... I think so many people dislike the smell because their not cleaning their enclosure enough. Anything will begin to smell if it's in an enclosure with excrement everywhere ..... and next to old food you give them!! Just keep them clean with fresh water, and fresh food and maybe more people would learn to love them too :)

I have usually three enclosures. 1. for adults ready to feed my bearded dragon 2. for sub adults around 6 weeks after they were hatched. 3. for non hatched and baby crickets. To move the crickets from one enclosure to the other I simple pour the crickets into the next enclosure. If I have more time i use the tubes and egg cartons and shake them into the nex encolsure. No rocket science here :-)

The reason for the two tanks is simple that somethimes I have two different generation of hatchilings and I try to put each of them in a separate tank. So i avoid canibalism and figths of the crickets. The grid over the soil is from a DIY market and prevents that the adult crickets eating the eggs. Thanks for liking my video! :-)

I love their sound and have been lulled to sleep with their bleeting since childhood. I miss it.

Thank you so much for the video! I followed the steps and my crickets ar already laying eggs. Now we won't have to buy my beardie crickets all the time. Because of this, you just earned a like and a sub. 👌👍🏾👌👍🏾😀😄😀😄😃😂🙂😄😀😌😀😄😅😂😃😆😄😀

I got attached to a little cricket in class and how he's my science project. This video has helped me a bunch on what to do further and how to demonstrate the mating process and lifestyle of these adorable creatures. Thanks a ton!

My eggs hatched yesterday. I got a lot of baby. They are very cute and aggresive. When they age 1-10 day I feed them with puree quaker oat and some baby milk without water. I spray water every 2 days. Thanks for this video pal

Simple and beautiful video! Great job!

Odd but I find crickets adorable. lol no clue as to why, just love the little critters

I must admit my crickets never live long as Bartl is very hungry. :-) But I think the adult Crickets would like a month or so. Currently I am gave my adult crickets already the third box of soil, one of them has already completely hatched the second one is just about to strart. So far I have no problems with to generation of baby circkets in the same tank.

I buy them small as well, because they are cheaper from our pet shop around the corner. They will grow so fast anyway.

I've watched a lot of these videos to learn about this and I like yours the best! thanks.

I would like to say a big "THANK YOU" to all viewers to this video. 85.800 views is really amazing and I hope you enjoying it. In case you wish a video around a special topic plesae let me know.

Best video I've seen for Cricket breeding by far! Awesome 👍

Thank you so much!! This helped me so much on breeding crickets. I am getting a baby bearded dragon soon and I know they eat lots but this video will save me a lot of cricket money!! Thank You!!:D

Oh my :) thank god you posted this video "how to breed crickets" Instead of wasting all that money for crickets now i just have to breed them:))) my turtle "spike" said "thank you " lol hes so happy

best and most informational cricket breeding video ever! deserves more views

Wow i was searching for this video. finally I got it. Thanks for the video.

This video is amazing, the life cycle of crickets is very interesting. And, the chirping is one of my favorite characteristics of crickets. I had success raising House Crickets bought from my local pet store, and just using them as food for my Myrmica Incompleta ant colony. Aside from a source of food, crickets are fascinating insects. House Crickets tend to be more docile, while Striped Crickets can get pretty territorial, and “bat” other crickets with their long antennae. Sadly, I messed up somewhere in rearing the 3rd generation of House Crickets. The container I had the eggs in was too moist, and this caused the end of this line. Right now, I’m experimenting with a method for Striped Crickets. One where they’re in a 10 gallon fish tank, just to see if they’ll continually reproduce, hatch, and grow. Theoretically, there should be a constant supply of crickets in all stages of life. Something similar was done by a teacher I had in elementary school, where he had a similar sized tank just FULL of grasshoppers. Ones native to my area, and there were hundreds of them, in every size. Now, I have to find out if this can be replicated with Striped Crickets.