Commissary worker Mike Cser breeds creeks at the Detroit Zoo in Royal Oak, Mich. The cricket-breeding initiative allows the zoo to avoid the steep costs associated with flying in the leaping ...

Reviewed by Natasha Diehl Reviewed by Natasha Diehl If your pet reptile goes through a lot of crickets at mealtime, ordering them in bulk and then breeding and raising more crickets yourself is a ...

Discover how field crickets habitat changes impact their survival and the successful breeding programs reviving their populations.

Crickets are easy to breed and require minimal space. A one-square-foot box can hold about 1,200 crickets.

That is not the case with crickets, who have a more “one and done” lifestyle, with just one breeding season before dying. A recent report in Evolution looked at 10 years of cricket breeding to try and ...