Spring field cricket
The spring field cricket is a shiny black cricket that lives alone in a little burrow in the ground. It is a tough little fighter that guards its home. In late spring the boys sing loud chirping songs to call the girls.
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Fun facts
It sings by rubbing two hard veins on its wings together, one rough and one smooth, like a comb and a fingernail.
It sings most around sunrise. When nights are colder than 10 degrees, it sings in the daytime instead.
When a girl comes close, the boy switches to a quiet song, so hungry animals do not hear him.
Crickets from west Texas can be twice as long as crickets from North Dakota.
Toads, wild turkeys, hawks, wolf spiders and salamanders all like to eat it.
Most asked questions about Spring field cricket
?How big is a spring field cricket?
About 22 millimetres long, but some are much bigger or smaller depending on where they live.
?Why do crickets chirp?
The boys chirp to call girls. They make the sound by rubbing their wings together.
?Do spring field crickets bite?
They are not dangerous to people. They save their fighting for other crickets.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Gryllus veletis
- Named by
- Alexander & Bigelow
- Group
- Grasshoppers and crickets
- Family
- Gryllidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Orthoptera > Gryllidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Gryllus veletis (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 Glenn Berry. CC0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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