Mealworms VS Crickets

Okay so there is a lot of information out their that suggests tons of people still breed crickets.I say get out of the stone age and start breeding mealworms.These are the benefits of both:

Mealworms

Pros

-Easy to breed

-Require next to no maintence

-Nutrient rich and easy to gutload

-Worm like which salamanders and frogs injoy more then grasshoppers or crickets.

-Bigger meal in my opinion i mean all it takes is two mealworms for my wasps and they are good to go i think it would take 3-4 a day with crickets or more.

-Way easier to handle then having crickets jumping all over the place

Cons

-Hard to dust

-Can cause impaction in reptiles and herps

-Can burrow into the substrate

-Can harm a molting T

Now onto Crickets

Crickets

Pros

-Easy to find

-Cost less

-Eat almost anything

-Easy to dust

Cons

-Really hard to breed

-Require breeding dishes

-Have to be seperated from the babies

-Smell horrible

-Eat each other

-Require really weird setups

-Require daily if not 3-5 times a day maintence

-Jump all over the place

-Crickets live 6-8 wks

You be the judge i’d say this :

Mealworms:A++

Crickets:F

But it’s your feeders i’m not trying to make everyone go insane and start getting mealworms and blowing up crickets[Which if you do post videos on youtube it'd be funny to watch!]

Anyway hope that helps.