Striped ground cricket
The striped ground cricket is a small cricket that lives on the ground in short grass. The males sing to call the females. It lives in North America, and scientists love to study it because it can have babies with a close cousin.
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Fun facts
A female listens to the songs of the males and picks the one she likes best.
Most striped ground crickets have short wings. If they grow up while the days are long, their wings grow bigger.
In late summer the mother pushes her eggs into the ground with a long tube at the end of her body.
It lives more in the north and higher up in the mountains. Its close cousin lives more in the south and lower down.
Most asked questions about Striped ground cricket
?What does the striped ground cricket eat?
Both plants and small animals. It is not a fussy eater.
?Why do crickets sing?
The males sing to call the females. Each female chooses the singer she likes best.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Allonemobius fasciatus
- Named by
- De Geer, 1773
- Group
- Grasshoppers and crickets
- Classification
- Insecta > Orthoptera
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Allonemobius fasciatus (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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