Do crickets remain in the size they're sold or do they grow?

[SalticusScenicusStar]

Do crickets remain in the size they're sold or do they grow larger. Say I buy a 3/4 inch cricket, is it a nymph that will grow larger or a genetically modified cricket that remains that size?

 

[tarantulas118]

If I buy a crickets say a small one ive never seen it grow I know they molt sometimes but they usually die the size you get them

 

[DaveM]

Well, if you feed them and keep them properly, they will grow into adults.

You can breed them and keep colonies going if you like.
You provide some moist soil for them to lay eggs, the eggs hatch into pinheads, which growth through all the nymph instars, and mature as adults, so the circle of life continues.

The way pet stores provide crickets to you, in plastic bags or in small plastic boxes with little chunks of floral foam soaked in water, obviously these are death traps. If you don't rehouse and care for the crickets, then they may well die as they are.

 

[DomGom TheFather]

They grow.
Though your typical feeder cricket only reaches about 3/4 of an inch.

 

[viper69]

Do crickets remain in the size they're sold or do they grow larger. Say I buy a 3/4 inch cricket, is it a nymph that will grow larger or a genetically modified cricket that remains that size?

Grow

go to the major cricket vendors to see sizes

 

[Smotzer]

Yes they can continue to grow larger just often they do not because they are not kept in the proper conditions to do so!

 

[ant ramblings]

Beetle jelly pots can make them last for ages .

 

[ladyratri]

In the past few months since I changed up my cricket setup, I've now been finding cricket molts in among the inevitable cricket corpses.

Apparently a few of those random cleanup beetles snuck in at some point too, and I'm pretty sure I saw what looked like a larvae of one of those in there.

 

[Stylopidae]

It depends on what size you get them at.

At smaller sizes, they'll grow into adults. At larger sizes, they'll stay the same size because they are adults.

Adults typically reach only about an inch or so.

 

[theamazingspiderman]

They grow like any other bug, there is not actually cricket sizes, the small ones are younger, and the large ones are adults or getting there.

 

[SalticusScenicusStar]

Thanks a lot for all your help. It was all great information for me. Thanks!

 

[Zoopy]

I've had to get rid of crickets in the past when they grew too big to be fed to my jumping spiders. I didn't even keep them in any special conditions, just in the container they came in and then I fed them every few days.