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 average bed contains between two million to six million dust mites.
The rhinoceros beetle is the strongest animal and is capable of lifting 850 times its own weight.
Each year, insects eat about a third of the world’s food crops.
Over 900,000 known species of insects exist throughout the world.
The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
A flea can jump about two hundred times the length of their body, which is about thirteen inches.
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Mosquitoes prefer children over adults, blondes over brunettes and mosquitoes are attracted to the color blue twice as much as any other color.
An ant is capable of lifting fifty times its own weight and is capable pulling thirty times its own weight.
Certain types of grasshoppers and crickets have their ears on their front legs.