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The Lad’s Research: How to Farm Crickets

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How to Farm Crickets

The first step in farming crickets is to either catch some or buy them in a store. If you buy them in a store they are less likely to have diseases.   If you catch them in the wild, you want that ones hardest to catch, and you’ll need to check them for mites, You will probably need 20-50 of them depending on the size of your container. Make sure you have a mix of males and females. You can see a picture of a female cricket here. 

Put them in your already prepared container.  To prepare your container, put 1cm of dry sand in the bottom of your container, now get one petri dish and use top as a water bowl (the top is not as deep as the bottom, making them less likely to drown your crickets if they fall in) and the bottom as a food bowl.  I like to use petri dishes since if they fall in the can easily get out.

Get another petri dish, fill the top and bottom with loose unfertilized, pesticide free, topsoil.   Now spray the dirt with a little bit of water enough that if feels damp.  The crickets will lay their eggs in here since their eggs need moisture. Now put in a egg carton if you can get one this will give them a spot to hide in.

Make sure that your crickets always have food, water and lots of space, if they don’t have just one of these, they will start eating each other. Also make sure that the dirt filled petri dishes stay damp or the eggs will dry out and die. Try to keep your crickets in a warm room. Make sure that the container you’re using has air holes or a wire mesh screen and that they can’t escape. 

After two weeks your crickets eggs will be about ready to hatch, so take out the dirt filled petri dishes and put them in your other container prepared like the first, except this container will have no dirt filled petri dishes.  In a few days to 2 weeks the baby crickets will hatch.  They will be the size of pin heads, keep them in this container until they are full grown then put them back in with the other crickets. 
Make sure you replace the dirt petri dish after taking it out of your original container.
The lad asked me to edit the pictures he took and to add them in.  He also wanted me to tell you that crickets do best on a varied diet.  They can eat cat food, unspiced meat, greens, fish pellets, fruits and fish flakes.  Make sure their food doesn’t go bad.

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The Lad’s Research: caribou

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Caribou can be found in the northern parts of Europe, Asia, Greenland and
North America. Caribou can be found in coniferous forests characterized
by swampy areas, Lakes and rivers.

Caribou are also known as reindeer, There are two types of caribou the woodland caribou and the tundra caribou. The tundra caribou has six subspecies but the woodland caribou only has three. Caribou can reach up to 4-5 feet at shoulder height and up to 700 ponds in weight. The body of caribou is covered with a winter coat which provides insulation at
the low outer temperatures. The furs color depends on the species. It can range from dark to light brown.

Caribou are the only species in the deer family were both males and females have antlers though the females have smaller antlers and lose them after giving birth. Males shed their antlers after mating season. Caribou will also use their antlers to dig in snow.

Reindeer are herbivores (plant-eaters) and depending what time of year, they will feed on various plants, grass and lichens. They will travel up to 3,000 miles each year in search of food. They can run at 50 miles per hour. “Caribou have scent glands at the base of their ankles that are used when the animal is in danger. It will rear up on its hind legs to release a
scent that alerts the other caribou to the danger it is facing.” (source).

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The Lad’s Research: The CN Tower

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The construction of the CN Tower (Canadian national tower)  was finished in 1975 and held the world record for tallest freestanding structure until 2010, But it is still the tallest freestanding tower in the western hemisphere, The tallest tower and 6th tallest freestanding structure world wide, It is 1,815.3 feet tall and over 2,000,000 people visit it each year, It  is one of the modern wonders of the world. It has a sky pod where visitors can stand on a glass sheet that is 348  meters above the ground, The 2.5 inch thick glass can hold the equivalent weight of 36 moose, From the skypod you can see 100 miles  on a clear day. The CN tower is almost completely vertical it is off by 1.1 inches.

It is able the withstand a earthquake of of 8.5 of the richter scale and winds of 270 miles per hour, Though they don’t get many earthquakes there. There is a restaurant in the CN tower that rotates, It takes 72 minuets to rotate completely. The last piece of the tower has put in place on April 2 1975, They used a helicopter with a crane to put it on, In the process the helicopter got caught on the tower with only 30 minuets of fuel left, Workers were able to free it and it safely landed with 17 minutes of fuel left in its tank.

You can learn more by going here. 

End of the lad’s report.   I added this video.