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??
During the average lifetime, a person consumes about seventy insects and ten spiders during their sleep.
A flea can jump about two hundred times the length of their body, which is about thirteen inches.
Each year the average person will “eat” several insects while they are sleeping.
Each year, insects eat about a third of the world’s food crops.
The rhinoceros beetle is the strongest animal and is capable of lifting 850 times its own weight.
Mosquitoes prefer children over adults, blondes over brunettes and mosquitoes are attracted to the color blue twice as much as any other color.
Houseflies can taste with their feet – they have taste buds on them.
Over 900,000 known species of insects exist throughout the world.
Certain types of grasshoppers and crickets have their ears on their front legs.
Dragonflies are capable of flying sixty miles per hour.