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Eastern striped cricket

Miogryllus verticalis
Eats: A bit of everythingGrasshoppers and cricketsGardens and meadows6 legs

The eastern striped cricket is a field cricket from the Americas. Field crickets live on the ground in grassy places. On warm evenings the males sing by rubbing their wings together.

Lives in
Eastern North America, Central America and South America
Top speed
about 3 km/h (1.9 mph)
On foot, estimate
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It cannot sting, and it would rather hop away than bite.
What does it eat?
Like other field crickets, it nibbles plants and also eats small insects and leftovers.
For real!Photo of Eastern striped cricket
Picture by Judy Gallagher. CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

How fast is it?

cool stuff

Fun facts

1

Crickets have their ears on their front legs, just below the knees.

2

Scientists once thought there were two kinds of it, but now they know they are the same cricket.

3

It lives all the way from eastern North America down to South America.

you asked

Most asked questions about Eastern striped cricket

?How does the eastern striped cricket sing?

The male rubs his wings together to make a chirping sound.

?Is the eastern striped cricket dangerous?

No. It is harmless to people.

For bug experts

Scientific name
Miogryllus verticalis
Group
Grasshoppers and crickets
Family
Gryllidae
Classification
Insecta > Orthoptera > Gryllidae
Lives on
North America, South America

Where the facts come from

  1. Miogryllus verticalis (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 Judy Gallagher. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.

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