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??
Over 900,000 known species of insects exist throughout the world.
The rhinoceros beetle is the strongest animal and is capable of lifting 850 times its own weight.
Honeybees are more dangerous than snakes. Bees kill more people each year than all the poisonous snakes combined.
The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
Certain types of grasshoppers and crickets have their ears on their front legs.
The average bed contains between two million to six million dust mites.
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.
Mosquitoes prefer children over adults, blondes over brunettes and mosquitoes are attracted to the color blue twice as much as any other color.
Dragonflies are capable of flying sixty miles per hour.