Fall field cricket
The fall field cricket is a shiny black or dark brown cricket with feelers longer than its body. On late summer nights the males sing a cheerful chirp, chirp, chirp. It lives in grassy places all over much of North America.
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Fun facts
The male sings by rubbing his front wings together, about two or three chirps every second.
He sings at the door of his burrow or from a crack in the ground, and dives inside if he gets scared.
Female crickets seem to like the songs of older males best.
A female can lay more than 400 eggs in her life. She pokes them into the soil.
When winter comes, some crickets sneak into houses to stay warm.
Most asked questions about Fall field cricket
?Why do crickets chirp at night?
The males chirp to call females. They sing mostly at night.
?What does the fall field cricket eat?
It eats seeds and plants, and also small insects.
?Do field crickets bite?
They are harmless to people and hop away rather than fight.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Gryllus pennsylvanicus
- Group
- Grasshoppers and crickets
- Family
- Gryllidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Orthoptera > Gryllidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Gryllus pennsylvanicus (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 Kevinjudge. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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