Tropical house cricket
The tropical house cricket is a small sandy-brown cricket with two thick black stripes across its body, like a belt. It probably came from southwestern Asia, but now it lives in warm places all around the world. The males sing by rubbing their wings together.
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Fun facts
One black band runs across the bottom of its chest and the other across the top of its tummy.
The females have no wings. Instead they have a long thin tube at the back for laying eggs.
People raise lots of them as food for pet lizards, frogs, birds and spiders.
It is a little smaller than the ordinary house cricket and lives longer.
It cannot catch a virus that makes many other crickets sick.
Most asked questions about Tropical house cricket
?Is the tropical house cricket a pest?
Not really. It does no harm in the house, but the singing males can be noisy.
?How big is the tropical house cricket?
It grows to about 13 to 18 millimetres long, a bit smaller than the common house cricket.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Gryllodes sigillatus
- Group
- Grasshoppers and crickets
- Family
- Gryllidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Orthoptera > Gryllidae
- Lives on
- Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- Indian house cricket, Banded cricket
Where the facts come from
- Tropical house cricket (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 Juan Carlos Fonseca Mata. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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