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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids (Orthoptera) » Long-horned Orthoptera (Ensifera) » Crickets (Gryllidea) » True Crickets (Gryllidae) » Field Crickets (Gryllinae) » Field Crickets (Gryllus) » Spring Field Cricket (Gryllus veletis)
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Field cricket - Gryllus veletis - female
Copyright © 2008 Vespula Vulgaris

Field cricket - Gryllus veletis - Female
Perry County, Pennsylvania, USA
December 10, 2008
Found this small female field cricket outside a few weeks ago. Cold weather has arrived (I don't know how she was still even alive) so I took her in with my house crickets. Hopefully she will be able to interbreed with them... If not then she is doomed to be single all her life because I don't have any males of her species
I'll post a photo when she becomes an adult so hopefully she can get identified to species

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Field cricket - Gryllus veletis - female Gryllus veletis? - Gryllus veletis - female
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Contributed by Vespula Vulgaris on 10 December, 2008 - 7:38pm
Last updated 10 February, 2010 - 9:51pm

Moved
Moved from Field Crickets.
… Vespula Vulgaris, 10 February, 2010 - 9:51pm login or register to post comments

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… Vespula Vulgaris, 27 January, 2009 - 3:21pm login or register to post comments

G. veletis?
Gryllus veletis is probably most likely; not sure what else might occur in your area. They hibernate as sub-adults and sing around May.
… James Miskelly, 12 December, 2008 - 12:07am login or register to post comments

 
Interesting!
It seems we don't have a page for that species here in the guide, but I googled it and it seems right since this cricket did appear to be trying to overwinter.

This one sure seemed ready to... I found her underneath a piece of bark where she had a tiny little space that she fit into
… Vespula Vulgaris, 12 December, 2008 - 5:02pm login or register to post comments

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