after several years of breeding my own feeder crickets I suddenly can't seem to breed them anymore. I found this article..... http://phenomena.nationalgeographic....turns-them-on/ but I'm not to sure that's what's at play here.

I've always used moist eco earth in a shallow plastic dish with a screen on top to keep them from burrowing. Usually just a day of laying and nine days later I have thousands. However for the last four months I've had nothing. Even leaving the eco earth container in for several days produces nothing. Temperature is consistent and not changed from other years.

Certainly the store bought cricket are not sterilized now. That wouldn't seem to be worth the effort for the commercial breeders to try a get the small percentage of us that breed our own.

So I'm a little perplexed. My reasons for not believing it's the virus in the article is due to they don't seem overly sex-crazed. In fact, they seem not concerned about reproducing. Any ideas?