Name: Crickets
Description: Crickets are insects. They have six legs, and four wings. A cricket has a mouth on the head and ears on its legs. A cricket is green and sometimes brown.
Food: Crickets are omnivores (they eat almost anything!) and scavengers, feeding on organic materials, as well as decaying plant materials, fungi (mushrooms and toadstools) and seedling plants.
Habitat: Crickets live under rocks and logs in meadows, pastures and along roadsides. Many are nocturnal (they are active at night).
Predators: Spiders, some wasps, ground beetles, birds, small rodents and lizards are cricket predators.
Life cycle: egg, nymph (several stages), adult.
First the male finds a female. The female lays eggs. The eggs hatch in 2 to 4 days. When it is 5 to 6 weeks old it is an adult.
