BASSETT'S CRICKET RANCH1000 Crickets - Medium 1/2" (Banded Cricket)

The shipment came quick. Great value for the money. Only three crickets out of a thousand were dead. I will definitely buy from this company again.

I ordered 1000 Medium Live Crickets. I received a box of a bunch of small dead crickets. The post office even stayed open late on Saturday to make sure I got them the day they arrived. I reached out to Bassett's Cricket Ranch on December 28. They responded December 30 and they said they would refund or replace.I said go ahead and send a replacement, hoping they would arrive in a timely fashion. It is now January 8 and still no word from Bassett's Cricket Ranch. I ordered these to feed a collection of reptiles and arachnids, were they supposed to still be waiting for their food? I had to buy smaller orders of crickets locally, for a huge mark up, so I am at the point where doing business with Bassett's is actually costing me money.Update: It has now been one day shy of a month since my initial order. Still no word from Bassett's, I actually had to reach out to Amazon, I did that 4 days ago. Today they went ahead and actually filed a claim against them. We will see how that goes.

The media could not be loaded. Let me start by saying that I’ve ordered twice from this seller. My stars are based on the second purchase and the video is from the first purchase. I was a little shocked at the number of large spiders in the box with the crickets! Unlike the crickets, the spiders could scale the side of the plastic tote I keep my crickets in. Once dumped into the tote it was a race against the clock to snag each spider before it escaped into my house! (Was 25 plus spiders) Fortunately I’m not afraid of spiders so I snatched them up with my feeding tongs, dusted them in calcium powder, and then dropped them into my monitor tank! Crickets, spiders, made no difference to them. They consumed them within 48 hours! The second box of crickets didn’t contain any spiders, lol. I was prepared though! As for the crickets, more arrived alive in the second box as opposed to the first box, lol.

The Pros: They crickets arrived all alive AND they have been hardy and surviiving.The Cons: They are MUCH smaller than ordered (many pinhead size) and the shipping information was terrible. I was given a timeframe of a week of possible delivery dates, my tracking number never showed anything more than 'label created' and then they showed up two days before the first supposed delivery date. I had gone out and purchased crickets, because I wasn't expecting them . Just unprofessional.

Excellent packaging for traveling through the postal system, more than a bit of a challenge when transferring them from a cardboard box with two screened sides into a container to access them for feeding. (I wish the seller would put the crickets in a thin mesh bag inside of the box.) Tip: Transfer them outside, no one wants a flurry of live crickets exiting a box in their home.I didn't count, but the order for 1,000 seemed plentiful and contained at least 1,000 - only a few were dead, travel is tough. They arrived on time, quickly, are very much alive and well. Great price.These medium crickets (1/2") seem to be measured from tip of extended leg to tip of the antennae - they were much smaller than anticipated. They were smaller than other medium crickets I have purchased.

Almost 80% of the crickets arrived dead. The ones that were alive were very small, more like pinheads - 1/4in, rather than medium-sized as expected. The package wasn’t labeled as containing live animals, and the seller didn’t include any food or water for the crickets during delivery. On top of that, the box didn’t contain just crickets; it also had other bugs and spiders. I can’t imagine how terrible the conditions must be at the cricket farm. I’m seriously concerned that these crickets might carry viruses. Don’t waste your money on this garbage.

Bassett's is great. I've ordered from them directly before. They are just as good thru Amazon. They are in California and close to me in Nevada. I got my crickets in 2 days all alive.They are the banded crickets which are not as susceptible to cricket virus as are the regular domestic crickets other cricket farms sell.Keep them in a tank with egg crates, keep the tank and egg crates dry but provide plenty of water crystals and they should do fine. A wet or moist environment will lead to them dying. Water crystals will keep them hydrated just enough to be happy. A piece of orange also helps. Dry cricket chow also recommended. If you see hairy worms of black beetles, these are dermestid beetles and their larva. They will eat the dead crickets and left over food. Some places charge for these beetles. I keep them in my cricket and roach colonies to help clean up the dead. Only bad thing I can say is I did get one huge brownish spider. Not poisonous but freaked me out. Thought it was a cricket at first.

1/2 of them were dead!