SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) – The summer heat is affecting more than people. Pet owners with reptiles and other insect-eating animals may be having a harder time finding one essential food source: live crickets.
Madilynn Booth and her husband own two reptiles — a crested gecko named Apollo and a bearded dragon named Elliot. For Elliot, crickets are a favorite meal.
“Elliot only eats crickets. He will eat mealworms, but if I go over there and he does not have crickets, he looks at me like, ‘Are you kidding me?’”…