Woodies | Medium

Regular price $2.99

Wood Cockroaches (Nauphoeta Cinerea) | Medium

Crazy Critters offers you the convenience of high-quality live feeder insects at affordable prices, delivered to your door!

Our wood cockroaches (woodies) are available in 3 different sizes: 

• small woodies (9mm)
• medium woodies (18mm)
• large woodies (30mm)

As woodies are highly active, they trigger a positive feed response in pets that are motivated to feed by movement. 

Woodies are a clean, natural and nutritious option as a staple feeder insect in your pet's diet. 

You can feed our insects to your pet:

• frogs
• geckos
• insect-eating birds
• lizards
• predatory fish
• scorpions and spiders
• turtles; and
• wildlife

to provide variety in their diet.

Offering your pet various feeder insects promotes better overall health through a more balanced and nutrient-rich diet.

food in its natural state
provides the best source of nutrition

Woodies do not have an adequate calcium:phosphorous ratio for many animals and may require additional calcium before feeding to your pet. 

You can achieve a higher calcium content by:

• dusting your insects immediately before offering to your pet; or 
• adding the calcium powder to a gutload supplement fed to your insects. 

Note: woodies are also commonly referred to as speckled feeder roaches and lobster roaches.

Storage

We recommend that you: 

• unpack your woodies on arrival to reduce the risk of losses
  
  
• store them at room temperature in a storage container without a lid AND
  
  
• apply a 5cm - 10cm strip of Fluon Insect Barrier Paint to the top inside edges of your storage container to prevent escapees! 
  
  
• raise them on a high-protein diet like Crazy Critters Gutload - Premium Insect Food and provide fresh produce twice a week

Shipping

We offer live shipping rates in the checkout to ensure our customers are offered accurate shipping charges that reflect order volume. 

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We send out orders on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday each week to ensure your live insects arrive before the weekend. This practice helps reduce any losses in transit.

Our live insects are carefully packed with dry food, fresh food or a combination of both, to ensure they get sufficient nutrients and moisture in transit and arrive in excellent condition.

All Crazy Critters boxes have adequate ventilation for airflow and are labelled to ensure appropriate handling. We also slightly oversupply our live insects (up to 20%) to account for any small losses, so you can be confident you receive the right numbers in your order, every time. 

We understand the most important part of ordering live food is that they arrive... Alive! So Crazy Critters offers a 100% Live Guarantee. If your live insects arrive in poor condition, let us know and we'll make it right.