Cricket angst at Petco and Petsmart

[vancwa]

For several months now both businesses have been selling medium crickets as large. I have been buying crickets for years and know what large looks like. Every time, I tell them the large are really considered medium. Another customer agreed with me. I think I will check-out a reptile store in Portland. Maybe they have TRUE large crickets.
And then the power went out while I was in Safeway. Good thing I have Bat-like qualities.

 

[cold blood]

Are they the same species...if they changed to banded it would explain it as banded crickets don't get as big.

 

[viper69]

For several months now both businesses have been selling medium crickets as large. I have been buying crickets for years and know what large looks like. Every time, I tell them the large are really considered medium. Another customer agreed with me. I think I will check-out a reptile store in Portland. Maybe they have TRUE large crickets.
And then the power went out while I was in Safeway. Good thing I have Bat-like qualities.

I've been buying from both for decades. IME they never sell true large crix. They do as you mentioned, primarily because mediums satisfy a range of animal sizes.

Sometimes feed stores actually sell large.