Black field cricket
The black field cricket is a shiny black or brown cricket with long feelers and strong jumping legs. At night the males sing by rubbing their wings together. The longer a male sings, the more the females like him.
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Fun facts
A male can sing for half the night to call a female to his burrow.
Young crickets have a white stripe on their tummy, which disappears when they grow up.
Crickets can learn. Scientists taught them to link a smell with a treat.
Bats and ground beetles hunt it, so it listens carefully to hear them coming.
Its eggs have to soak up water before the baby crickets can hatch.
Most asked questions about Black field cricket
?Why do black field crickets chirp?
Only the males chirp. They rub their wings together to call females at night.
?What does a black field cricket eat?
Mostly plants, but it is an omnivore and eats other food too.
?Does a black field cricket bite?
It has chewing mouthparts, but it is harmless to people.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Teleogryllus commodus
- Group
- Grasshoppers and crickets
- Family
- Gryllidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Orthoptera > Gryllidae
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania
Where the facts come from
- Teleogryllus commodus (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 Ghouston. CC0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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