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  2. Cricket (insect) - Wikipedia

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    The calling song of a field cricket. In 1975, Dr. William H. Cade discovered that the parasitic tachinid fly Ormia ochracea is attracted to the song of the cricket, and uses it to locate the male to deposit her larvae on him. It was the first known example of a natural enemy that locates its host or prey using the mating signal. [10]

  3. Orthoptera - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Rhaphidophoridae - Wikipedia

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    Most cave crickets have very large hind legs with "drumstick-shaped" femora and equally long, thin tibiae, and long, slender antennae. The antennae arise closely and next to each other on the head. They are brownish in color and rather humpbacked in appearance, always wingless, and up to 5 cm (2.0 in) long in body and 10 cm (3.9 in) for the legs.

  5. List of insect-inspired songs - Wikipedia

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    (Traditional folk song) (Traditional folk song) Unknown: Folk: There is a popular recording of this song by Jerry Garcia and David Grisman on the album, Not for Kids Only. Dog and Butterfly: Lepidoptera: Ann Wilson N/ancy Wilson, / e Ennis: Heart: 1978: Folk rock: Hive: Hymenoptera: Sexton / Nick Hexum / Martinez: 311: 1995: Rap rock: Red ...

  6. Ripipterygidae - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Tridactylidae - Wikipedia

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    Apart from scrabbling over the water or swimming, some species actually can jump off the water surface. It is probable that the natatory lamellae are what makes such implausible leaps possible. The plates also may aid jumping on land, which Tridactylidae certainly can do impressively.

  8. Teleogryllus oceanicus - Wikipedia

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    Like most cricket species, Teleogryllus oceanicus males produce a calling song to attract potential female mates. Crickets produce the sound of their calls using a "file-scraper" system where, as the male opens and closes its wings, a plectrum (scraper) located on the posterior side of the left wing is rubbed against a filed vein located on the right wing. [5]

  9. Gryllinae - Wikipedia

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    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).