Field cricket
The field cricket is a big, dark, shiny cricket that cannot fly. The males dig a little hole in the ground and sit at the door singing. Their chirping song calls the females to come and visit.
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Fun facts
It only sings when it is warm, more than 13 degrees.
Each male has his own burrow and guards it fiercely against other males.
The babies spend the winter as half-grown nymphs and become adults in spring.
In Britain it became so rare that only about 100 crickets were left in one place. People helped by moving crickets to new homes.
In 2022, 70 crickets from Spain were let go in a field in Cornwall. A year later there were about 1000.
Most asked questions about Field cricket
?Can field crickets fly?
No. Field crickets cannot fly, so they cannot travel far to find new homes.
?Why do field crickets chirp?
The males sing at the door of their burrow to call females.
?How big is a field cricket?
About 17 to 23 millimetres long, around 2 centimetres.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Gryllus campestris
- Named by
- Linnaeus, 1758
- Group
- Grasshoppers and crickets
- Family
- Gryllidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Orthoptera > Gryllidae
- Lives on
- Europe
- Also known as
- European field cricket
Where the facts come from
- Gryllus campestris (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 Roberto Zanon. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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