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Gryllodinus kerkennensis, the silver-bell cricket, is a cricket species which presents a disjunct distribution in the Southern part of the Western Palearctic, from North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula up to Central Asia [1] inhabiting arid, semidesert or desert land mostly associated with saline soils near water sources of lagoons or river beds depressions.
The Talking Cricket features in Carlo Collodi's 1883 children's book, The Adventures of Pinocchio, and in films based on the book. The insect is central to Charles Dickens's 1845 The Cricket on the Hearth and George Selden's 1960 The Cricket in Times Square. Crickets are celebrated in poems by William Wordsworth, John Keats, Du Fu and Vladimir ...
A large specimen may grow to be 6 to 7 cm (2.8 in) or more, with long whip-like antennae extending to about the same length. The exoskeleton is orange to light brown, with darker brown or black stripes across the abdomen. [4] The conspicuous markings probably are aposematic in effect. A large specimen can jump more than a metre high. [citation ...
Orthoptera (from Ancient Greek ὀρθός (orthós) 'straight' and πτερά (pterá) 'wings') is an order of insects that comprises the grasshoppers, locusts, and crickets, including closely related insects, such as the bush crickets or katydids and wētā.
Anostostomatidae is a family of insects in the order Orthoptera, widely distributed in the southern hemisphere. [1] It is named Mimnermidae or Henicidae in some taxonomies, and common names include king crickets in Australia and South Africa, and wētā in New Zealand (although not all wētā are in Anostostomatidae).
Ripipterygids are small, often dark-colored, cricket-like orthopterans, between 3 and 14 mm in length. They closely resemble the related tridactylids . Like tridactylids, they have greatly expanded hind femora , and have the ability to swim and jump from the surface of water.
Spinochordodes tellinii is a parasitic nematomorph hairworm whose larvae develop in grasshoppers and crickets.This parasite is able to influence its host's behavior: once the parasite is grown, it causes its grasshopper host to jump into water, where the grasshopper will likely drown.
Gryllinae, or field crickets, are a subfamily of insects in the order Orthoptera and the family Gryllidae. They hatch in spring, and the young crickets (called nymphs) eat and grow rapidly. They shed their skin eight or more times before they become adults. Field crickets eat a broad range of food: seeds, plants, or insects (dead or alive).