Cricket epidemic? CA only?

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Originally Posted by ice#1

i just bought 5 dozen for my Tokay's last week-end and they had just got 10 or 11 boxes of crickets in that morning

a few years ago i used to breed my own crickets and found i always had some dieing off so i started getting the wild black crickets and putting them in with the others after about 6 months there was tons of crossed crickets and i quit loosing any others then what i used to feed. wild crickets get immunities cause they aint sheltered indoors.outdoors where natural selection lets only the most healthy survive

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I hope you weren't feeding your animals wild crickets...
They're often full of parasites and can have poisons and chemicals on them from fertilizers, weed killers, and pest poisons.