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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chubbs" data-source="post: 62235" data-attributes="member: 1084">I also highly recommend silk worms as well. They get much larger, over 3 inches in length, so are great for larger tarantulas, They are a bit more expensive though and more difficult to find, and you have to buy food to go with them or provide them with your own fresh mulberry leaves, as that is all that they eat, The moths they turn into are pretty big as well. As for crickets, the one's that are most often sold in pet stores and online are Acheta domesticus, the domestic house cricket. A better yet more difficult to acquire cricket is the banded cricket Gryllodes sigillatus, which are reported to be a lot tougher and live a lot longer. Here's an article explaining the advantages of them: <a href="https://www.joshsfrogs.com/catalog/blog/2015/06/the-top-9-reasons-you-should-feed-banded-crickets-to-your-pets/" target="_blank">https://www.joshsfrogs.com/catalog/blog/2015/06/the-top-9-reasons-you-should-feed-banded-crickets-to-your-pets/</a>Also check out Gryllus assimilis aka the Jamaican Field Cricket, which are also used as feeders sometimes. They are larger than normal domestic gray crickets, but are said to be far more aggressive and have a very painful bite.<a href="http://www.geckotime.com/jamaican-field-cricket-gryllus-assimili/" target="_blank">http://www.geckotime.com/jamaican-field-cricket-gryllus-assimili/</a></blockquote>