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10 Ways to Choose Good Cricket Seeds

Natural cricket animals are the best crickets for parent plants, and these types of crickets can be found in the wild, for example in rice fields or in moor, in bushes, or in forest forests. Get crickets that can be a healthy and strong mother, and are truly mature or ready to mate. The physical characteristics of adult male and female cicada animals are as follows.

Male cicada animals


The characteristics of the physical characteristics possessed by male crickets are as follows:

has a short and large body;
have a rough back wing;
does not have an ovipositor.
Female cicada animal

The characteristics of the physical characteristics possessed by female cicada animals are as follows:


has a slim and long body;
has smooth and shiny back wings;
has a rigid black ovipositor.
Some criteria that must be considered in the selection of cricket animals for prospective parents are as follows. 10 Ways to Choose Good Cricket Seeds.

10 Ways to Choose Good Cricket Seeds

1. Physically healthy and strong crickets are agile movements and if touched or held will struggle. Physical completeness such as, legs, antennae (antennas) and needle injectors (ovipositor) are the top priorities. (Also read about how to lay cricket cattle)

2. Choose crickets that have a hard and not soft body. If held weak, usually the cricket animal is less agile because it contains a lot of fluid. That is a sign that the cricket animal is not healthy or will even die. (Also read about the benefits of crickets for starlings suren)

3. Choose female crickets that have a full ovipositor, black, and stiff. Do not choose female crickets whose ovipositor is still bright / white because of the bright colored sign that the cricket animal is not ready to be mated. (Also read about modern crickets)

4. Aged 60 to 80 days with a sign that they already have complete wings.

The criteria mentioned above are another option for determining cricket animal seeds that are ready to be bred or bred. However, sometimes it is very difficult to get crickets that are really like those criteria. We sometimes get some limbs that are incomplete, for example the back leg is not intact (Jw: gothang), the antennae (antenna) are broken, and the ovipositor is broken or crooked. (Also read about how to quickly lay eggs in crickets)


This is often experienced by cricket breeders who catch crickets in the wild improperly. Therefore, if we catch crickets in the wild, we must do them carefully (also read about crickets with broods)

So that the cricket's limbs remain intact. Specific criteria for consideration in choosing female crickets to be made into a parent are the ovipositor which is still intact and has a stiff black color.

5. Choosing prospective mothers of crickets directly from nature

If possible, choose the breeders of crickets caught from nature. This type of cricket brood is believed to be more disease resistant and more aggressive because it is used to living outdoors. In contrast to the prospective breeders of crickets that are the result of breeding or captivity that are accustomed to living


In the room so that endurance is not as good as cricket animals taken directly from nature. However, if the mother of a natural cricket is difficult to obtain, you can buy crickets from captive breeders that are sold in stores that supply bird feed.

6. Choose prospective healthy and quality breeders

When choosing prospective cricket breeders, make sure that the cricket breeders are physically healthy, have no disabilities, have limbs that are still complete, large body size,

The fur and body are shiny black and the antennae are still long. In addition, also pay attention to the movements of the cricket animals. Healthy cricket animals have agile movements and far jumps.

7. Differentiating female cicada and male cricket animals

To choose a superior cricket brood, you also need to know the difference between female crickets and male crickets. Female cicada animals have an ovipositor that functions to remove large eggs in the tail so that they appear to have 3 tails, not creaking and have a smoother back surface.

Whereas male crickets only have two tails because they do not have an ovipositor, the surface of their back is bumpy and looks more rough and produces a loud rattling sound.

8. Pay attention to the age of the brood

The ideal age of cricket broodstock to be made into broods is around 10 20 days. Cricket animals aged 10 to 20 days are considered ready to lay eggs.

9. When taking breeders from captivity, choose only females

When deciding to buy broodstock breeders from one captivity, select only female cricket breeders. Do not take the male brood from the same breeding place with the female brood.

If you choose female and male broods from one breeding place, it is feared that they will produce abnormal offspring. The best combination when choosing a superior cricket broodstock in addition to pairing crickets from natural origin with captive cricket animals is by buying one type of cricket broodstock from another breeder.

10. Matching several female breeders for one male parent

For one brood male male cicada can marry several female cicada animals. Therefore, the matchmaking process for ideal sires is to use a ratio of 10: 2 for sires of female crickets and male crickets.


For example, you need to provide 3 to 4 female breeders for one male cicada. Crickets can only be mated with other crickets from the same species. If male cricket species and female crickets are different, marriage will not occur.

That's how to choose good cricket seeds, good crickets can certainly be something valuable, can be maintained or used as bird feed so as to provide additional income and be useful for fellow animal lovers.

So that the author can convey, hopefully useful, see you in the next article, thank you.

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