Crickets are pretty easy to breed. The females have two small appendages (cerci) on the sides of the end of the abdomen and a long ovipositor in the middle at the end of the abdomen...males only have those two cerci on the sides. You can put several females in with one male and they will start laying eggs pretty quick. it takes about a month for the eggs to start hatching, but then you should have some hatching every day because the females would have been laying eggs every day.

If you can, use more than one container (those little critter carriers work well) and rotate the adults through each container. This way you will have a container with nothing but the substrate (you can use potting soil) which will contain the cricket eggs. After the eggs stop hatching, you can clean it out and add more soil and adult crickets.

Keep the soil moist, but not soaking wet.

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