[3][6] Crickets in the wild consume flowers, leaves, fruits, grasses and other insects[6] (including dead members of their own species).

[3] Crickets in captivity will accept fruits (e.g. apples, oranges, bananas), vegetables (e.g. potatoes, carrots, squash, leafy vegetables), grains (e.g. oatmeal, cornmeal, cooked corncobs, alfalfa, wheat germ, rice cereal), various pet foods and commercial cricket food.

The virus is extremely lethal to this species of cricket and a few others, and left many hobbyists and researchers without adequate feeder insects.

In Asia, it is said to become more popular than many native cricket species due to what consumers claimed was their superior taste and texture.

[11] In Europe, the house cricket is officially approved for use in food products in Switzerland (since 2017)[12] and in the European Union member states (since 2022).