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What did you find difficult about raising crickets? I remember as a kid I had a lizard and a cricket box for feeding and it was just a matter of adding cricket food and cardboard tubes (disregarding the one "dropped the box of crickets on the ground and all the crickets escaped into the kitchen" incident, to be fair). That said, I wasn't trying to raise human-food-grade crickets, lizards are probably less picky.

Everything else in this comment aside, what are you planning to feed them if you don't want to grow bugs like crickets?

I was kind of hoping they find their own food :)

Desperately hoping that this response means you want to catch them from the wild or around your property, and not that your house naturally contains a volume of insects large enough to support a nontrivial population of these things. :)

> are also meatier

Wait til you hear about chickens, or deer!