Narrow-winged tree cricket
The narrow-winged tree cricket is a slim, pale green cricket with an orange cap on its head. It lives up in trees and bushes. On warm summer nights the boys sing a gentle, trilling song.
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Fun facts
Its song gets faster and higher when the weather is warmer, and slower when it is cooler.
You hear it mostly at night, in late summer and autumn.
It has a dark stripe running down the middle of its back, just behind the head.
A Swedish scientist first described it in 1773 from a cricket found in Pennsylvania.
Most asked questions about Narrow-winged tree cricket
?How big is a narrow-winged tree cricket?
A grown-up is about 13 to 16 millimetres long, about as long as your fingernail is wide twice over.
?Why do tree crickets sing?
The boys sing to call the girls. They sing most at night in late summer and autumn.
?Where do narrow-winged tree crickets live?
In trees, bushes and orchards in eastern North America and the Caribbean.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Oecanthus niveus
- Named by
- De Geer, 1773
- Group
- Grasshoppers and crickets
- Family
- Oecanthidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Orthoptera > Oecanthidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Snowy tree cricket
Where the facts come from
- Oecanthus niveus (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 xpda. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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