Tree cricket

Tree cricket
Snowy tree cricket, Oecanthus fultoni
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Orthoptera
Family:	Gryllidae
Subfamily:	Oecanthinae Kirby, 1906
Genus
Leptogryllus Neoxabia Oecanthus Paraphasius Prognathogryllus Thaumatogryllus Xabea

Oecanthus angustipennis, the narrow-winged tree cricket

Oecanthus pellucens

Tree crickets are insects of order Orthoptera. These crickets are in the subfamily Oecanthinae of the family Gryllidae.

They live in trees and shrubs, for which they are well camouflaged. Like other species of cricket they produce their calling song by rubbing the ridges of their wings together. The chirp (or trill) of a tree cricket is long and continuous and can sometimes be mistaken for the call of a cicada or certain species of frogs.

Tree crickets are omnivorous, and are known to feed on plant parts, other insects such as Sternorrhyncha, and even fungi.^[1] Eggs are laid in the fall, in a series of small holes drilled into the bark. After remaining dormant for the winter, the eggs hatch in the spring and the young tree crickets begin feeding on aphids. They may go through as many as twelve molts before reaching maturity around mid summer.

Tree cricket is also known as poor man's thermometer. It is because if you count the number of chirps in 15 seconds and add 37 you get the temperature close to the Farhenheit temperature of outside.

References

1. ^ Bastiaan M. Drees & John A. Jackman (1998). "Tree cricket". A Field Guide to Common Texas Insects. Lanham, MD: Gulf Publishing. ISBN 0-87719-263-4. http://insects.tamu.edu/fieldguide/aimg16.html. Retrieved 2009-10-03. 

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