Variety is the spice of life! Not only will your herps be happier they will also be healthier if you vary the type of feeder insects you offer your reptile or amphibian. There are many other options besides crickets to try!
Wednesday, April 16th
April's meeting will focus on how to safely handle and present your reptile to the public. Please feel free to bring your own animal to show off.
Meetings start promptly at 8pm in the Alumni Room of Medaille College.
Annual Banquet
PLEASE NOTE: The annual banquet and recognition dinner will be rescheduled due to conflicts. The new date will likely be a Saturday in May, please contact a board member for more information.
Buy Crickets and Other Feeder Insects
Try giving your favorite reptile something different than crickets. It doesn't matter if you are looking for food for your lizard or food for your frog, variety is the key! While crickets can be an excellent source of food, you should consider wax worms, zophobas worms, red worms, or even night crawlers.
Just like apples have different nutrients than oranges, different insects also have different nutrients. You need to keep this in mind when you are considering what to feed a lizard or what to feed a frog. Most experts will agree that feeding a variety of foods to your reptile or amphibian will give it a more nutritionally complete diet. A more nutritionally complete diet will make for a healthier pet.
ReptileFood.com offers crickets, fruit flies, mealworms, wax worms, zophobas worms, and night crawlers with reliable delivery and competitive prices. It's definitely a favorite place for many of our members to order food for their pet lizards, turtles, frogs, and other pets. You can also purchase cricket and mealworm care kits to help take care or your purchase.
Another favorite of some of our members is Wormman.com. Wormman also offers great variety and guaranteed live delivery for all of their stock. Not only does Wormman offer crickets, fruit flies, mealworms, wax worms, zophobas worms, and night crawlers like ReptileFood.com they also offers other merchandise as well. If you need to feed fish or purchase bait, Wormman.com offers that as well in addition to composting supplies, hermit crabs and supplies, pH and soil testing supplies and even reptile cages, supplies and accessories. With their expanded selection and reliable delivery, Wormman.com helps to answer the question "What to feed my pet reptile?"
Both ReptileFood.com and Wormman.com give 5% of your purchase back to the Western New York Herpetological Society when you order through this page. This does not increase your final cost and is a great way to help support the Western New York Herpetological Society as well!
Please remember to order through this page or create bookmarks in your favorite web browser so we receive credit for your purchases!
Once you order your crickets, be sure to check out our Cricket Care Sheet for information on how to best keep your crickets.
Help further herpetology research and education by donating to the Marvin R. Aures Herpetological Grant