Wood cricket
The wood cricket is a small dark brown cricket that lives among fallen leaves at the edge of woods. It has long, thin feelers and cannot fly. On warm days you can hear the males singing, but it is very hard to find them.
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Fun facts
The males sing day and night when it is warm, with a loud two-note call.
When it is disturbed, it jumps away with its strong back legs or hides in the leaves.
Unlike most of its relatives, it lives for two years.
Since it cannot fly, it rarely goes far. Males were found about 55 metres from the woodland edge.
In England it once arrived in a garden by accident, hidden in a delivery of azalea plants.
Most asked questions about Wood cricket
?Can the wood cricket fly?
No. It has no back wings, so it walks and jumps instead.
?How big is the wood cricket?
It is only about 1 centimetre long.
?Where can you hear a wood cricket?
In sunny spots at the edge of woods with lots of fallen leaves, on warm days and nights.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Nemobius sylvestris
- Group
- Grasshoppers and crickets
- Family
- Trigonidiidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Orthoptera > Trigonidiidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Africa, North America
Where the facts come from
- Nemobius sylvestris (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 Gilles San Martin from Namur, Belgium. CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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