cricket shipping

[Nemesis]

Anyone order crickets from Josh's Frogs? I tried emailing them about the survivability rate in the mid 90's for temps but no reply. Any of you still order cricket feeders in that temperature range? Thx

 

[mkeBob]

They only ship if the temps are between 10-85 degrees F or 0-90 F if shipped next day air

 

[CamoChameleonsHuman]

I always do post office pick up with Rainbowmealworms and no problems. We're up to damn near 100 degrees here everyday now

 

[Beman]

I always do post office pick up as well... we don’t have high temps here but if they left a box on my door in direct sun it would easily get over 90 degrees. I have not ordered from them but I would think they would offer that option since everyone else does.

 

[Clayton0520]

I used to have horrible survival rate with my crickets until I switched to banded crickets from Ghanns. Now I have no problem having them shipped to my door with temps pushing 100 degrees here in Dallas with maybe 3-5 dead crickets in the box.

 

[CamoChameleonsHuman]

I used to have horrible survival rate with my crickets until I switched to banded crickets from Ghanns. Now I have no problem having them shipped to my door with temps pushing 100 degrees here in Dallas with maybe 3-5 dead crickets in the box.

Rainbowmealworms sells banded for way way cheaper. Just found this out myself.

 

[cham_urchin]

Rainbowmealworms sells banded for way way cheaper. Just found this out myself.

yup! and they have silks

 

[Rst_Cham]

I do hold for pickup at post office from rainbow as well. The one time I didn't, everything arrived dead after being on UPS truck all day. Those trucks get hot!

 

[AnamCara]

Rainbowmealworms sells banded for way way cheaper. Just found this out myself.

HOLY **** THEY ARE SO MUCH CHEAPER. This cannot be real..... 100 3/4" bandeds for 5 bucks?!?!?!?! yooooooo thank you!

 

[AnamCara]

Anyone order crickets from Josh's Frogs? I tried emailing them about the survivability rate in the mid 90's for temps but no reply. Any of you still order cricket feeders in that temperature range? Thx

I am admittedly a TERRIBLE bug keeper which is why I mainly feed bandeds -- but I have exclusively ordered from Josh's frogs for over a year and I live in colorado -- only ever had 1 delivery come dead. Like every single one but that was in the spring it was cooler. I called them up and the next day there were new banded's at my door. I have a covered porch and I can always pick them up the day they're dropped off.

That being said I am immediately trying Rainbow for my bandits now because wow they are cheaper....

 

[Nemesis]

wow i saved that site on my favorites, def gonna try them out! Thanks for everyones input!

 

[insectovore]

Hold for pickup will work well. I just had hornworms, spikes, waxworms, and mealworms shipped from Rainbow to the east coast and not a single dead feeder