Bell cricket
The bell cricket is a small cricket from Asia with wide wings shaped like melon seeds. Its song sounds like the chiming of a tiny bell. In Japan, people love its song so much that they keep it as a pet.
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Fun facts
Its Japanese name, suzumushi, means bell bug.
In Japanese poems called haiku, the bell cricket is a sign of autumn.
A chapter of a famous old Japanese story, The Tale of Genji, is named after it.
In a Japanese novel from 1962, the main character keeps bell crickets as pets.
Most asked questions about Bell cricket
?Why is it called the bell cricket?
Because its song sounds like a little ringing bell.
?How big is the bell cricket?
About 17 to 25 millimetres long.
?Can you keep a bell cricket as a pet?
In Japan many people do, so they can listen to its chiming song.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Meloimorpha japonica
- Named by
- Haan, 1844
- Group
- Grasshoppers and crickets
- Family
- Gryllidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Orthoptera > Gryllidae
- Lives on
- Asia
- Also known as
- Suzumushi, Bell-ring cricket
Where the facts come from
- Meloimorpha japonica (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 Monami at Japanese Wikipedia. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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