Adults about three quarters of an inch long with three dark bands on the head and thin antennae. Body is yellowish-brown.
Active at night. Attracted to lights.
House crickets can damage silk, woolens, paper, fruits and vegetables.
Did You Know??
Termite queens will lay up to 30,000 eggs in a day, and live for many years.
An ant is capable of lifting fifty times its own weight and is capable pulling thirty times its own weight.
Only three kinds of animals fight battles in formations: humans, crows and ants.
Over 900,000 known species of insects exist throughout the world.
Mosquitoes have killed more humans than all the wars in history.
The rhinoceros beetle is the strongest animal and is capable of lifting 850 times its own weight.
The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
You are more likely to be killed by a Champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
Certain types of grasshoppers and crickets have their ears on their front legs.
During the average lifetime, a person consumes about seventy insects and ten spiders during their sleep.