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.
Each year the average person will “eat” several insects while they are sleeping.
An ant is capable of lifting fifty times its own weight and is capable pulling thirty times its own weight.
A flea can jump about two hundred times the length of their body, which is about thirteen inches.
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.
The rhinoceros beetle is the strongest animal and is capable of lifting 850 times its own weight.
Over 900,000 known species of insects exist throughout the world.
Dragonflies are capable of flying sixty miles per hour.
You are more likely to be killed by a Champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
Each year, insects eat about a third of the world’s food crops.