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??
An ant is capable of lifting fifty times its own weight and is capable pulling thirty times its own weight.
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.
Certain types of grasshoppers and crickets have their ears on their front legs.
The rhinoceros beetle is the strongest animal and is capable of lifting 850 times its own weight.
Mosquitoes have killed more humans than all the wars in history.
The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
Only three kinds of animals fight battles in formations: humans, crows and ants.
For every person on the earth, there are two hundred million insects.
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.