I feed my tarantulas almost exclusively on crickets. I read about the importance of a varied diet, but I fear feeding something I catch outside to my pets for fear of pesticide/parasites. I've tried mealworms on occasion but most of those escape and burrow into the substrate and I worry about finding a beetle munching on my molting tarantulas. When I lived in Texas, I could go to pet stores and buy feeder roaches. I was in charge of my university's insectary so I even started my own American cockroach colony that I fed to our tarantulas, scorpions, and centipedes. But now I live in Florida, where all the space I have is in my apartment (where I'm not technically supposed to have tarantulas..SHHH!) and feeder roaches seem to be a big no-no. So what have you used to vary your pets' diets?