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Hi
i even looked it up in a dictionary and whe call them sprinkhaan.
i breed those i breed round the 1000 of them each week and feed 100 to my beardies and sel the rest .
here is the set up of me on the picture you see one big enclosure where my adults colony is in.
and the smaller cages i have the potsoil boxes in where they layed there eggs in.
i have every thing on a thermostate so if the temp go higer then 41 degree celsius is wil dimm the light.

you see here the boxes i use i would not use ducktape then babiehoppers wil stick on it poor babies

here is a link to breed them i breed the same i saw the pciture.
i found this on yahoo ,better use that for searching ;P
http://www.easyinsects.co.uk/livefood/locusts/
i have read this but i would not use sand in youre enclosure where you have the adults.
use potsoil boxes with a double bottom and fill the bottom box with water and the storie with dreads i told you before works great.
sand in youre colony and moist it wil get it to humit.
they like dry climat 30-40%
so you place the boxes in colony and after 3 days you take them out and then place them in a litle cage with a light for heat to incubate the eggs.
i feed them mainly gras i cut every 2 days with a garden zisor 2 bags of gras.
then i use a eleastic,dread to make a bundle and give that to my grashoppers/locust every day,and bran i give every day they need also dry food.
after 10-12 days the eggs wil hatch after 10 days of good heat and food they wil grow fast in 10 days they r halfgrowen and after one week from then they have wings.
i feed the small grashoppers and the bigger once to my beardies.
the small babies love the babie hoppers allot
if you wanan know more email me
there so much to tell .
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Yes, locust and grasshoppers are one and the same.
However, some people here in the U.S. mistakenly call cicadas "locusts". Especially the ones that only appear once every 7 years or so.
The main difference between true locusts and cicadas are that locusts will eat any veggitation they can find, whereas cicadas have no mouth at all. The adults only live long enough to breed and lay eggs in holes or cracks in tree bark. Their larva can do alot of damage to trees though.

Probably more info than anybody wanted.
Oh well, I have nothing better to do at the moment. :-P

D.A.

Hi
here a pic of my breeding colony thx for the info.
i already got a feeling they r in the same familie.
like a slugh and snail .
ok on the pic you see my colony they mainly eat gras it give a nice dry poop.
i not have some thing on the bottom every time i change the boxes 2,3 days then i can scope out the dry poop and gras .
if you make a double bottom with wire the poop wil fal trough it just a tip.
but i not found it anoying to schope it up.
its dry and not stink at all.
if i walk in my little shed/barn in my garden i only smell gras.
i love fresh cutted gras smell
you also see on the picture the boxes i talk about i made a ramp with a wooden piece.
so they can climb easy where they must lay there eggs in.
you also see bran on the bottom .
and wire where they can climb in,its very importent to make enough climb space.
i have in a 50 gallon tank 2x 100 watt normal bulb and a double fixture with flueroscent lights.
one of that light is a old reptisun 5.0 some people say they not needed it and other say they need it.
i not take risk and i use a reptisun 5.0 a old one it working very fine,you all know uvb/uva have good things
i use potsoil in the boxes with i puit in microwave first 5-8 min .
also i made a double boxes first one with holes and i use dreads trough the holes then papertowel on top and then the potsoil.
so the second box is used for little bit water in so the dreads get wet and so the potsoil get wet from the bottom .
,,,not spray from above to get it moist it not good,,,.
i have it max 41 degree and minium on 35 degree celsius .
24 houres a day i have the light on .
and every time i bring hoppers away i put some back to keep my colony allive.
becuase i use 24 houre then the grashopper is dead after 1,2 months adulthood.
they lay 40-200 eggs each time .
they have a long dril in the behind and then go in the potsoil and lay the eggs,if you use transparant boxes you see the pink colord eggs
its much work but i make 800 -900 grashoppers each week and sel the rest 1000 grashoppers = 100 euro
so its nice to have some thing back and free food
if some one wanna know more email me
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