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Greenhouse camel cricket

Tachycines asynamorus
Name means: “it is called greenhouse camel cricket because it loves warm greenhouses and has a humped back”
Eats: A bit of everythingGrasshoppers and cricketsHouses and farms6 legs

The greenhouse camel cricket is a wingless, humpbacked cricket with super long legs and feelers. It is grey to brownish with dark spots and ringed legs. It loves warm, damp places and often hides in greenhouses and cellars.

Lives in
Originally from Asia, now in warm greenhouses, cellars and homes in Europe, North America and elsewhere
Length
1.1 to 1.5 cm (0.44 to 0.57 in)
Top speed
about 2.6 km/h (1.6 mph)
On foot, estimate
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It might give you a fright when it jumps, but it does not hurt people.
What does it eat?
It eats small insects, and also fruit, seeds, seedlings, young leaves and flowers.
For real!Photo of Greenhouse camel cricket
Picture by USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab. CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

How big is it?

How long is it?

Greenhouse camel cricket about 1.5 cm long (0.57 in)A grain of rice about 6 mm (0.24 in)A toy building brick about 3.2 cm (1.3 in)
as long as 2.5 grains of rice in a rowcould run across a dinner table in 1.4 secondsmoves 49 times its own body length every second

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Fun facts

1

Its feelers are 7 to 8 centimetres long, about four times as long as its body.

2

It has no ears, so it uses its long legs and feelers to feel its way around in the dark.

3

It comes out at dusk and at night.

4

It was first described from crickets caught in the palm houses of St. Petersburg in Russia.

5

Scientists once asked people in the United States to check their homes for camel crickets and send in photos.

you asked

Most asked questions about Greenhouse camel cricket

?Are greenhouse camel crickets dangerous?

No. They do not bite people or spread illness, they just jump around.

?Why are there camel crickets in my cellar?

They like warm, damp, dark places with lots of hiding spots, like cellars and greenhouses.

?What do camel crickets eat?

Small insects, plus fruit, seeds and young plants.

For bug experts

Scientific name
Tachycines asynamorus
Named by
Adelung, 1902
Group
Grasshoppers and crickets
Family
Rhaphidophoridae
Classification
Insecta > Orthoptera > Rhaphidophoridae
Lives on
Asia, Europe, North America
Also known as
Greenhouse stone cricket

Where the facts come from

  1. Tachycines asynamorus (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
  2. Picture by USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.

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