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??
Each year, insects eat about a third of the world’s food crops.
Over 900,000 known species of insects exist throughout the world.
Dragonflies are capable of flying sixty miles per hour.
The rhinoceros beetle is the strongest animal and is capable of lifting 850 times its own weight.
An ant is capable of lifting fifty times its own weight and is capable pulling thirty times its own weight.
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.
Mosquitoes prefer children over adults, blondes over brunettes and mosquitoes are attracted to the color blue twice as much as any other color.
Only three kinds of animals fight battles in formations: humans, crows and ants.
The average bed contains between two million to six million dust mites.
Honeybees are more dangerous than snakes. Bees kill more people each year than all the poisonous snakes combined.