Two-spotted cricket
The two-spotted cricket is a dark cricket with two little pale spots at the base of its wings. That is where its name comes from. At night the males sing loudly by rubbing their wings together.
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Fun facts
The males have different songs. One calls girls from far away, another is a soft love song, and a fast loud one warns other males.
Two males will wrestle by grabbing each other's jaws and pushing with their back legs. The loser walks away, usually without getting hurt.
It hides under logs, in grass and in cracks, or lives in holes dug in the ground.
The mother lays her eggs in damp soil or sand with a long tube on her tail. The babies hatch after about two weeks.
Zoos and pet owners raise lots of these crickets to feed lizards and spiders.
Most asked questions about Two-spotted cricket
?Why do crickets chirp at night?
The males rub their wings together to call females and to warn other males to stay away.
?Do two-spotted crickets bite?
They are harmless to people. Males only wrestle with each other using their jaws.
?How do you tell a two-spotted cricket apart?
Look for the two pale spots at the base of its wings.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Gryllus bimaculatus
- Group
- Grasshoppers and crickets
- Family
- Gryllidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Orthoptera > Gryllidae
- Lives on
- Africa, Europe, Asia
- Also known as
- African field cricket, Mediterranean field cricket
Where the facts come from
- Gryllus bimaculatus (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 Arpingstone. Public domain, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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