Eastern ant cricket
The eastern ant cricket is a tiny cricket, less than 4 millimetres long, that lives inside ant nests. It has no wings and no ears. It sneaks around among the ants and helps itself to their food.
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Fun facts
It has been found living with eleven different kinds of ants.
Its eyes are tiny and it cannot see well. Instead it feels its way with two hairy feelers at the back end of its body.
Its feelers on the head are as long as its whole body.
It can take up to two years to grow up.
Its back legs are big and thick, like those of other crickets, but its front legs are small.
Most asked questions about Eastern ant cricket
?What does an ant cricket eat?
It lives in ant nests and steals the ants' food.
?How big is the eastern ant cricket?
Only about 4 millimetres long, smaller than a grain of rice.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Myrmecophilus pergandei
- Group
- Grasshoppers and crickets
- Family
- Myrmecophilidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Orthoptera > Myrmecophilidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Myrmecophilus pergandei (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Ryan Hodnett. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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