Talk:Cricket (insect)

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Er, is a mole cricket a cricket or not? The atricle explains mole crickets as if they are true crickets, like field and tree varieties, but then lists it as a false cricket. --Spikey 02:26, 28 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Contents 1 True or false?? 2 Should primary topic cricket be the sport or a disambiguation page? 3 The White Cricket 4 What are these? 5 Diet? 6 Legless Crickets... 7 Chirping season 8 I typed "cricket" looking for info on the insect

[edit] True or false??

True or false: the poem text at the bottom of this article should be at Cricket (disambiguation). 66.245.112.43 22:14, 1 Sep 2004 (UTC)

True. --Yath 22:36, 1 Sep 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Should primary topic cricket be the sport or a disambiguation page?

See Talk:Cricket#Why_is_the_sport_here_and_not_the_insect.3F for discussion. Nereocystis 20:53, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] The White Cricket

I'd like to know what crickets eat. Where I live we have the black kind (ground cricket?). I'd also like to know if they hibernate.

Recently I found what I thought was an albino cricket in our compost heap. I captured it, and the next day it had turned black again. I also think that it might have been a female because, when I found it, it was dragging a dead companion. Do male crickets die after mating?

--141.209.178.238 11:37, 30 August 2005 (UTC)Tetsufu

The "albino" cricket you found had actually just molted, which is why it's exoskeleton turned black again. Once an exoskeleton has been formed, it can only expand a very small amount which is why certain insects who grow over their lifespans will often shed several exoskeletons. Male crickets live after mating, so the cricket you found was likely dragging along it's own old exoskeleton. Crickets are omnivorous, so while they usually eat plant matter they will also consume dead insects and even live ones, or pretty much anything that has nutritional value. Some also hibernate, or at least try too: they rarely survive the winter, so if you see a cricket odds are that it hatched just that spring season. RentACop 03:07, 11 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] What are these?

Does anyone know what these are? They look like crickets, but I'm not even sure about that. I photographed them in Panama, near Santa Fe, central west, up in the hills. And if you know about more animals you might want to look at some more photos that need identifying at User:DirkvdM/Photographs#Plants_and_Animals. DirkvdM 07:58, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

Wow, those are neat looking. I'm not sure what they are, but the shape of the head gives me the impression that they are a type of grasshopper, and since they lack wings they're likely still early in development, maybe in the first couple instars. I'm thinking they're Lubber Grasshoppers, as they look similar to the picture below of a Lubber from panama. Of course, the color scheme is different, but that's not uncommon: the lubber in the pic is a juvinile and as an adult it's color scheme is a very different purple color. RentACop 17:20, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~lmann/CIMG0897.JPG

Thanks, they really look a lot alike. Or do grasshopper species generally look so much alike? I'll put the pic in the gallery at grasshopper and ask at that talk page to see if I get a more definitive answer there. DirkvdM 07:34, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Diet?

This article urgently needs discussion of other areas beyond the chirping. For example, what do crickets eat? You can't have articles about animals without mentioning their diet. 201.235.51.21 03:52, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

I searched for this article for exactly that purpose...I wanted to know what crickets eat. Fledchen 23:52, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Legless Crickets...

I have many of the typical black crickets living around my area and in my back yard (picture B on the page). They get in my house and are incredibly annoying..but a strange thing I have noticed about them is that it is not uncommon for them to have a leg missing. Not only that, but I once picked one up by the antenna and held it for a short while as I watched it struggling crazily to escape when one of it's legs just shot off! It kinda freaked me out so I haven't really touched them since...anyone know anything about this?

Giving up a leg might be a survival method. I too have seen amputee crickets. Pendragon39 03:24, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

Yeah an interesting thing is it just happened again a few days ago. This time I just sprayed one with Raid and watched it slowly die and it's leg just came off...it's so weird. I wonder if they grow back or anything? It seems like it just unattaches from the joint and falls, causing them no pain at all, unlike humans where if we lost a leg there'd be blood everywhere.

Sadist

Not when the darn thing has been chirping all night!

I find their chirping quite soothing :) Pendragon39 20:10, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

Well this is the question i came here to find out! Ill find a cricket or two in my basement almost every day in Fall. And alot of them are missing a leg. Well the other day, i found a cricket dying (upside down, wrigling around a little) and both its back legs were off, they were both lying within half a foot from the cricket. Its like their legs will just fall off for no reason. I find them disgusting and hate em almost as much as i hate houseflies >:( -Dave p.s. their chirping isnt so relaxing when its just one of em echoing nice and loud in your furnace room when youre trying to sleep.

YOU ARE SO MEAN!!! --Cricket Boy 21:23, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

I agree :( Pendragon39 21:52, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Chirping season

I like crickets and sometimes observe them. I notice they don't start chirping in my backyard until late July. In other areas though, such as sandy roadsides, it is common to hear chirping in early summer. I would like to know if this difference is due to habitat or species. Pendragon39 03:24, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] I typed "cricket" looking for info on the insect

And I got something about some weird game they play in England. Why? I think a disambiguation page would make the most sense.

There is a disambiguation page, but cricket doesn't take us there. Ideally cricket should go to Cricket_(disambiguation) and Cricket should go to the game. Someone please fix this! Pendragon39 22:37, 29 November 2006 (UTC)