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About the house cricket
The house cricket is a insect in the family Gryllidae (order Orthoptera).
What does the house cricket sound like?
Insects make sound mechanically: crickets and grasshoppers rub a scraper against a file (stridulation), cicadas buckle ribbed membranes called tymbals, and bees and mosquitoes hum with their wingbeats.
From Wikipedia
Acheta domesticus, commonly called the house cricket, is a species of cricket most likely native to Southwestern Asia, but between 1950 and 2000 it became the standard feeder insect for the pet and research industries and spread worldwide. They can be kept as pets themselves, as this has been the case in China and Japan.
More from the family Gryllidae
Field cricket
Gryllus campestris
Two-spotted cricket
Gryllus bimaculatus
Tree-cricket
Oecanthus pellucens
Tarbinskiellus portentosus
Tarbinskiellus portentosus
Fall Field Cricket
Gryllus pennsylvanicus
Texas Trilling Cricket
Gryllus texensis
Tropical house cricket
Gryllodes sigillatus
Teleogryllus oceanicus
Teleogryllus oceanicus
Teleogryllus mitratus
Teleogryllus mitratus
Frequently asked questions
What does a house cricket sound like?
You can hear 6 recordings of the house cricket on this page. Insects make sound mechanically: crickets and grasshoppers rub a scraper against a file (stridulation), cicadas buckle ribbed membranes called tymbals, and bees and mosquitoes hum with their wingbeats.
What family does the house cricket belong to?
The house cricket (Acheta domesticus) belongs to the family Gryllidae in the order Orthoptera.
Sources & credits
- BioAcoustica 393-9 Acheta domesticus 3545 – CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- BioAcoustica 394-2 Acheta domesticus 357b – CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- BioAcoustica 393-11 Acheta domesticus 356 – CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- BioAcoustica 393-8 Acheta domesticus 354b – CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- BioAcoustica 393-7 Acheta domesticus 354 – CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- BioAcoustica 394-1 Acheta domesticus 357 – CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Wikidata Q27711 – CC0
- Wikipedia: House cricket – CC BY-SA 4.0
- Photo by Hexasoft – Public domain