BrianMac

By BrianMac

Cricket or Grasshopper?

I believe the Grasshopper has short antenna so this is perhaps a Cricket as it has antenna greater than the length of its body. They are often confused with grasshoppers because they have a similar body structure including jumping hind legs.

In 1975, Dr. William H. Cade discovered that the parasitic tachinid fly Ormia ochracea is attracted to the song of the male cricket, and uses it to locate the male in order to deposit her larvae on him. It was the first example of a natural enemy that locates its host or prey using the mating signal. Since then, many species of crickets have been found to be carrying the same parasitic fly, or related species.

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