While I wouldn't deliberately feed crickets that appear too large to your Chameleon if I were you, I wouldn't exactly worry about it if he gets something a little big once in a while either. They know what they want to eat and what they can handle a lot better than we do. They are the chameleons not us and to borrow from Rob Zerkle for a minute they don;t run around with little"chameleon rulers" in the wild measuring bugs before they eat them to see if they are too big. I see a lot of worrying about food items out there and a lot of it is overkill. My favorite one that I saw recently was someone making a point of pulling the back legs off of grasshoppers. I am assuming this was because they were worried about the spines causing some kind of damage to the chameleon. Well the fact of the matter is that crickets and roaches have those same exact spines as well and in fact they are worse in roaches than in the other two. I have fed grasshoppers to all my chameleons for years and have never ever had a problem related to feeding them. Kudos on feeding the moths btw moths are one of the best food sources out there and a lot people are afraid to use them due to fears of them being toxic. while it is true that some are toxic a lot of them are just fine and chances are that if they get a toxic one they'll spit it out first. Two examples I can give you of species that are reputed to be toxic that I have fed to chameleons successfully on many occasions are Luna moths and Gulf frittelary butterflies (sorry about the misspelling). I can tell you that within my own collection I get better egg production out of my reptiles when I feed moths butterflies and grasshoppers than when I don't.

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