I'm not sure what I expected when Child #4 and I visited a cricket farm last week.
Jiminy Crickets hopping all over grass of green, perhaps? Miniature wooden houses with lots of tubes (because crickets love to climb up tubes)? Music from Pinocchio?
Certainly, I did not expect this . . .



-250 six-week/large crickets (because it's $9 to buy 250 large crickets here and $5-$7 to buy 60 large crickets at the petstore!)
-1,000 pinhead crickets
-a tube of dry cricket food
As we drove off, Child #4 and I commeted that this wasn't our favorite My Town Monday fieldtrip. However, it was probably the chameleons' favorite!
Please check out the links to the other My Town Monday posts on the official My Town Monday blog. I bet my post is the last one up today. I wonder if there's a prize . . .
HUGE PRIZE, but as it happens to be 1,000 pinhead crickets, I don't know if you'll want it : (
ReplyDeleteJiminy Cricket! That's what I call a niche market!
ReplyDeleteYou are the coolest mother ever and clearly no pinhead, LOL!
ReplyDeleteWarm Aloha from Honolulu
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We get shipments through the post office of both crickets and ladybugs. Both stink but they are not as scary as the boxes full of buzzing bees.
ReplyDeleteI probably would have imagined Jiminy Cricket too. And wouldn't have been as brave on seeing the reality.
ReplyDeleteYour chameleons thank you.
ReplyDeleteOh, wow. If I had chameleons, I'd probably release all the crickets in the house by accident.
ReplyDeleteHow strange our pet stores sell crickets here
ReplyDeleteClare2E: Tempting as 1000 pinheads sounds....I might just pass!
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