In the wild, Crickets rely on animal remains and plant-based matter. It’s likely for a cricket to go its whole life by relying on what’s available next to them including fruits, grasses, and tiny remains of other animals. Crickets for pets or pet crickets (it’s possible) are often fed optimized meals consisting of specific nutritional requirements.
Crickets eat a variety of natural proteins and plants in the wild. This includes grasses, fruits, leaves, seeds, flowers, aphids, and larvae of other insects.
Crickets will eat seeds and small fruits that are available to them. Their plant diet will differ depending on which plant species grow where they live. Common plant food sources include chicory, ragweed, and crabgrass.
When food becomes scarce, crickets generally rely on animal remains (deceased animal parts), living organisms (such as larvae of other insects), or other insects directly. Wild field crickets are known to include more animal matter in their diet.
Crickets can be fed an all-plants diet for your pet. You’ll need to grow or buy a variety of things.
General recommendations:
Note that whatever your crickets eat will directly go on to providing a majority of the total nutritional value for your pet. Though crickets themselves have a lot of protein, it’s important to feed them good, clean, and fresh food to make your pet healthier.
Regardless of what you feed your crickets, it’s equally important to know how many crickets to feed to your pet daily. This usually differs from pet to pet.
Some general recommendations (for illustrative purposes) are below:
Bearded dragons
Geckos
Leopard and tokay geckos generally have a similar diet but you should replace medium crickets with ¼” crickets initially. Maturing geckos of all types can easily eat 3-8 large crickets every other day.
Veiled chameleons
The bone ridge on the back of the veiled chameleon is an indicator of its weight. That’s how you can look out at their diet much more closely.
Here’s a common dietary plan to follow:
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