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??
The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
Termite queens will lay up to 30,000 eggs in a day, and live for many years.
Over 900,000 known species of insects exist throughout the world.
Honeybees are more dangerous than snakes. Bees kill more people each year than all the poisonous snakes combined.
A cockroach can live nine days without eating. This is also the same amount of time that the body of a cockroach can live after its head has been cut off before it eventually dies from starvation.
Certain types of grasshoppers and crickets have their ears on their front legs.
The average bed contains between two million to six million dust mites.
Mosquitoes have killed more humans than all the wars in history.
Each year, insects eat about a third of the world’s food crops.
You are more likely to be killed by a Champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.