alternative to crickets

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If they're American or Fowler's Toads as are the ones in residence within my compound, they love to eat spiders. Ground-dwelling black or brown wolf and wolf-similar spiders. Another favorite they can be seen stalking every night of three seasons a year are pill bugs. You can probably have your pet supply store get you spiders but I haven't known pill bugs to be sold retail through any source. But pill bugs are easy to find and easy to gather if you have any time to do that sort of thing. I'd also say to give spotted roaches a try. I kept these two kinds of Toads for well over a decade in my grade school years and they did perfectly well on mealworms and whatever I could find for them in the back yard. You won't have any trouble at all getting them to eat many kinds of worms but the various cautions against them in this thread should be taken into consideration as they're commercialy raised and not culled by nature as they would be if gathered outdoors by you. The key is a couple of staples and as much variety in moderation as you can provide for them.