Ill be a bit more specific on the dusting. Dusting should be applied differently based on the diet you provide. Also what diet you apply to your insect and their calcium/phosphate/protein/uric acid levels are to benefit your herp. For instance if you feed a high protein and vitamin source food such as dubia roaches, superworm, earthworm you wont need to dust. Or if you feed gutloaded crickets you wont need to dust as often. I do not gutload my crickets because they end up getting fed off to fast. Maybe one gutload fed day which is not enough to provide nutrients to you herp. So I am required to dust daily due to the lack of nutrition the petstores and most cricket breeding farms provide. If you gutload feed 2 to 3 days before feeding you crickets should have enough vitamins and calcium in their system to dust once a week on vitamins and 3 to 4 tines a week on calcium. I go through my crickets to fast to gutload efficiently hense the fact of dusting daily. This is also a recomendation provided to me by michael novy a 20 year breeder of frogs. In addition I dont end up making a feeding everyday. Maybe 4 to 5 days out of the week they get fed. So ill also rephrase: daily being substituted with each feeding