Carolina Crickets

Carolina Crickets Formerly Warren Cricket Farm, Carolina Cricket sells live Acheta domesticus and banded crickets raised in-house in Dunn, North Carolina.

Carolina Crickets is a family-owned North Carolina farm raising healthy feeder crickets for pets, breeders, and reptile enthusiasts with reliable quality and care. We ship fresh crickets across North Carolina and the Southeast with fast delivery. Our Acheta crickets are maintained in closed, biosecure colonies and are preferred by fishermen, while our banded crickets provide year-round reliability

for reptile owners and pet stores. Not only do we ship to the Southeast, but we can take orders and online subscriptions nationwide.

✨️🦗Why Is Gut-Loading Important?​Because a live feeder cricket is only as nutritious as its last meal. 🦎​Whether you're...
06/13/2026

✨️🦗Why Is Gut-Loading Important?
​
Because a live feeder cricket is only as nutritious as its last meal. 🦎

​Whether you're feeding a reptile, bird, amphibian, arachnids, hedgehogs, or other exotic pets, they aren't just eating a cricket—they’re eating everything that cricket has consumed.

That’s why our crickets are raised on a premium, nutrient-dense, protein & calcium fortified diet up until the moment they ship.

Our crickets consist of
🦗 28% Protein
🦗 857 PPM Calcium
🦗 7.2% Ash
🦗 16% Fat Ratio
🦗 78.3% Total Dry Matter Basis

​High-quality fuel for them means a healthier, more vibrant pet for you.

Raised in a bio-secure & parasite safe, 100% virus-free facility, from our family farm, direct to your door, with the best 1-2 day shipping rates around.

✨👇NEED THE PERFECT SIZE FOR YOUR PET? 👇
Drop a comment with "SIZES" below, and we will slide right into your DMs to help you get your order set up!

Carolina Crickets - A Legacy that Leaps!

🦎 GROWING PETS NEED CHANGING SIZES—WE’VE GOT YOU COVERED! 🦎Whether you are a reptile, bird, amphibious, spider, scorpion...
06/11/2026

🦎 GROWING PETS NEED CHANGING SIZES—WE’VE GOT YOU COVERED! 🦎

Whether you are a reptile, bird, amphibious, spider, scorpion, or hedgehog parent, you know how fast your little ones grow. One month they are small hatchlings, and the next they are stepping up to their juvenile and adult stages.

Sizing your feeders shouldn't be a guessing game. Take a look at our official farm sizing chart below to see exactly how our Premium Carolina House Crickets (The Acheta Gold Standard) measure up! 📏🪙

🔹 Small & Hatchling Sizes: Plentiful, healthy, and ready to ship out today! Perfect for tiny mouths, young geckos, and small frogs. Soft exoskeletons mean easy digestion and zero impaction risk.
🔹 Medium & Large Sizes: Our bigger sizes are thriving on the farm right now, eating our nutrient-dense diet, and getting ready for the next harvest cycles!

Skip the picked-over storefront bins and get precisely sorted, virus-free, parasite safe feeders shipped straight from our family farm to your door. 📦✨

👇 NEED THE PERFECT SIZE FOR YOUR REPTILE ROOM? 👇
Drop a comment with "SIZES" below, and we will slide right into your DMs to help you get your order set up!

Carolina Crickets - A Legacy that Leaps!

🦎 WHAT IS YOUR FEEDER’S FEEDER EATING? 🦎When it comes to reptile health, the old saying is true: You are what you eat. B...
06/09/2026

🦎 WHAT IS YOUR FEEDER’S FEEDER EATING? 🦎

When it comes to reptile health, the old saying is true: You are what you eat. But in the reptile world, it goes a step further—your pet is what your feeder eats!

A cricket that has been sitting in a bare bin loses its nutritional value daily. That’s why at Carolina Crickets, we do things differently.

Every single Premium Carolina Cricket (The Gold Standard) raised on our farm is thoroughly gut-loaded with our custom-formulated, proprietary diet. 🌾🛡️

When you buy from our family farm, you are getting feeders that are:
💪 High-Protein: Fueling healthy growth and energy for active reptiles.
🧬 Nutrient-Dense: Packed with essential vitamins so your pets truly thrive.
🦴 Calcium-Enriched: Supporting strong bone development.

We do the hard work of building up their nutrition here at the farm so that the moment they arrive at your door, they are ready to pass that premium fuel directly to your exotic pets.

Treat your reptile family to the Gold Standard. 🏆📦

👇 WANT TO GIVE YOUR PETS A NUTRITIONAL BOOST? 👇
Drop a comment with "NUTRIENT" below and we will slide right into your DMs to help you get your order set up!

Carolina Crickets - A Legacy that Leaps!

It all started back in 1947 with Mr. Warren and his wife, the pioneers behind Warren Crickets. Today, Carolina Crickets ...
06/06/2026

It all started back in 1947 with Mr. Warren and his wife, the pioneers behind Warren Crickets. Today, Carolina Crickets proudly carries on their incredible legacy of excellence—bringing that same dedication into the modern era inside our state-of-the-art, bio-secure, virus-free facility. We don't just breed crickets; we craft a complete, premium nutrition source. ✨

By feeding our crickets an exclusively customized organic, highly nutritious, and nutrient-dense diet—fortified with calcium and enriched with protein—we are setting a new industry gold standard. 🦗🏆

The results from our latest independent nutritional panel speak for themselves. When compared against typical Acheta domesticus ranges and major commercial competitors, our crickets achieved an exceptional 78.3% protein on a dry matter basis (substantially higher than the standard 55–75% range).

We’ve also hit the absolute sweet spot for reptile keepers with a 16.1% optimal fat ratio—neither too lean nor overly fatty—ensuring healthy growth, excellent feed conversion, and robust muscle development for your pets. 🦎💚

Whether you have Bearded Dragons, Leopard Geckos, Crested Geckos, Chameleons, Anoles, Skinks, White's Tree Frogs, Poison Dart Frogs, Pacman Frogs, Tarantulas, Jumping Spiders, Scorpions, Hedgehogs, Sugar Gliders, Parakeets, or Finches, you always want the absolute best for your scale, furry, & feather babies. Give them the premium, clean, gold-standard nutrition they deserve. Check out our full, verified breakdown in the chart below! 👇

🦎 CATERING TO THE LITTLE ONES TODAY AT THE FARM! 🦎If you have delicate hatchlings, young frogs, small geckos, or arachni...
06/04/2026

🦎 CATERING TO THE LITTLE ONES TODAY AT THE FARM! 🦎

If you have delicate hatchlings, young frogs, small geckos, or arachnids at home, you know how important it is to find the exact right size feeder for their delicate digestions.

While our larger sizes are taking a quick pause to grow into their next cycle, our Small Premium Carolina House Crickets (The Acheta Gold Standard) are healthy, lively, and ready to ship! 🏆

Raised right here in our clean, bio-secure facility, we ensure our smalls are:
🔹 Easy to Manage: Perfectly sized for tiny mouths and growing pets.
🔹 Nutrient-Dense: Gut-loaded on a premium, nutrient-dense, calcium-enriched diet so they pass total nutrition directly to your reptiles.
🔹 Soft & Digestible: Gentle on delicate systems, reducing any worry about tough shells.

We pack and ship them straight from our family farm to your door in 1-2 days so they arrive fresh and full of energy. 📦✨

👇 NEED TO STOCK UP YOUR REPTILE ROOM? 👇
Just drop a comment with "SMALL" below, or send us a DM and we'll help get you started!


🦎 FROM HATCHLING TO APEX PREDATOR: WE HAVE THEIR PERFECT SIZE! 🦎No two reptiles are the same, which is why your feeders ...
06/02/2026

🦎 FROM HATCHLING TO APEX PREDATOR: WE HAVE THEIR PERFECT SIZE! 🦎

No two reptiles are the same, which is why your feeders shouldn't be either. Feeding a delicate baby gecko requires a completely different setup than a full-grown Bearded Dragon.

At Carolina Crickets, we raise both Banded and our signature Premium Carolina House Cricket (The Acheta Gold Standard). 🏆

Raised in our strictly bio-secure, virus-free facility on a nutrient-dense, calcium-rich diet, we ensure your exotic pets get exactly what their digestion needs. Just choose the perfect size for your pet's current stage:

🔹 Small: Ideal for delicate hatchlings, young frogs, and small geckos. Soft exoskeletons mean effortless digestion and zero impaction risk!
🔹 Medium: The ultimate sweet spot for growing reptiles who need that extra high-protein, high-energy punch.
🔹 Large: Our robust, thick-bodied powerhouses for mature, hungry predators.

Ditch the sluggish, dead-on-arrival pet store disappointments. Get lively, healthy, farm-fresh feeders shipped directly from our family farm to your door in 1-2 days with the best shipping rates. 📦✨

👇Question or Comment? 👇
Drop a comment below or send us a DM!

🎣 "THEY LAST 5X LONGER IN THE WATER!" 🎣That is a real report from a local fisherman who just fished our farm-fresh premi...
06/02/2026

🎣 "THEY LAST 5X LONGER IN THE WATER!" 🎣

That is a real report from a local fisherman who just fished our farm-fresh premium Carolina House Crickets. While gas station bait goes limp and sluggish, our crickets stay active, kicking, and triggering aggressive strikes five times longer than other suppliers!

Our large Carolina House Crickets (Achetas) are healthy, plump, and at the absolute perfect size for a hook right now.

If you want active, high-vibration bait that actually stays alive on the water, skip the middleman. Get farm-fresh quality delivered straight to your door with our lightning-fast 1-2 day shipping with THE BEST SHIPPING RATES around.

Secure your box for the weekend haul before these sell out too! 👇

👇 Drop a comment below or send us a DM if you have any questions!

Carolina Crickets - A Legacy that Leaps! 🦗
📍Dunn, NC

🚨 EXCLUSIVE FLASH RELEASE: LARGE CAROLINA HOUSE CRICKETS ARE BACK! 🚨They are officially out of the "honey hole," but you...
06/01/2026

🚨 EXCLUSIVE FLASH RELEASE: LARGE CAROLINA HOUSE CRICKETS ARE BACK! 🚨

They are officially out of the "honey hole," but you’ve got to move fast! We have a very limited, small-batch harvest of our premium Large Acheta Crickets live on the website right now.

We only have 15,000 total crickets available for this flash release (that is just fifteen 1,000-count boxes!). Once they are gone, the vault shuts until the next harvest cycle.

Whether you need fat, high-vibration live bait to trigger aggressive strikes on the water, or robust, nutrient-dense, calcium-rich feeders for your reptiles—this is the gold standard you’ve been waiting for. 🦎🎣

💥 THE VIP OFFER: 💥
👉 $40 per 1,000 (plus shipping & taxes)
👉 First-come, first-served
👉 Super fast 1-2 day shipping

Skip the sluggish gas station bait and the dead-on-arrival pet store disappointments. Get farm-fresh, bio-secure quality delivered straight to your door.

Tap the link in our bio or head over to the site to claim your box before the "SOLD OUT" sign goes up! 📦👇

👇 Drop a comment below or send us a DM if you have any questions!

Carolina Crickets - A Legacy that Leaps! 🦗
📍Dunn, NC

🐸 Meet Your Pet’s New Best Friend (It’s a Cricket!) 🐸Look at this stunning White Tree Frog! Living its best life, but we...
05/30/2026

🐸 Meet Your Pet’s New Best Friend (It’s a Cricket!) 🐸
Look at this stunning White Tree Frog! Living its best life, but we all know a healthy, happy frog starts with a fantastic diet. That’s where Carolina Crickets comes in! We are your family farm direct source for the premium, nutrient-dense feeder cricket pets that your exotic family members crave.

We don’t just raise crickets; we elevate them. Our robust Acheta and energetic Banded crickets are gut-loaded with a highly nutritious, organic and calcium-fortified cricket diet. This means every single cricket is a powerhouse of essential vitamins, optimized for the vibrant health of all your beloved exotics:

🦎 Geckos & Bearded Dragons
🐸 White Tree Frogs & Turtles
🐦 House Parakeets (Yep, birds love them too!)
🕷️ Tarantulas & Scorpions
🦔 Hedgehogs

Every cricket is raised right here on our farm in a strictly bio-secure environment that is 100% parasite safe. When we say ‘family farm direct,’ we mean it. It’s clean, it's quality, and it’s from our door to yours.

We also offer the best 1 to 2 day shipping rates for fast delivery, ensuring your feeder crickets arrive fresh, healthy, and ready for your pet’s dinner.

💥 Don’t Miss These Cricket Deals! 💥
Ready to upgrade your pet’s menu and save some green? Use these awesome discounts right now:

🎉 First Time Buyers: Get 15% OFF your entire order with "FIRSTTIME15"

🔔 Subscribe & Save: Lock in 20% OFF every order when you sign up for our easy subscription service. Never run out of premium feeders again! Use "SUBSCRIBE20"

👇 Drop a comment below or send us a DM if you have any questions!

Carolina Crickets - A Legacy that Leaps! 🦗
📍Dunn, NC


Address

212 Bait Road
Dunn, NC
28334

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 4pm
Tuesday 9am - 4pm
Wednesday 9am - 4pm
Thursday 9am - 4pm
Friday 9am - 4pm
Saturday 9am - 1pm

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