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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) » Vocal Field Cricket (Gryllus vocalis)
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Gryllus? - Gryllus vocalis - male
Copyright © 2010 Ken Schneider

Gryllus? - Gryllus vocalis - Male
Near Black Butte Lake, Tehama County, California, USA
May 8, 2010
Size: ~ 4 cm
I was thrilled to finally find one of these noisy crickets and photograph it! Found at night between two rocks on the ground.

Edit: After reading a bit more, it sounds like I should have recorded the singing for a possible species ID... FWIW, my memory of this recently heard cricket was that it was making two-syllable, relatively low-pitched "crik-it" sounds, repeated perhaps every couple of seconds. But maybe they all sound like that? :)

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Contributed by Ken Schneider on 11 May, 2010 - 11:01pm
Last updated 2 January, 2012 - 3:33am

fits Gryllus volalis quite nicely
and the song could come across sort of as described. I'm not sure that G. vocalis is really different from G. veletis, but it does seem to sing a little faster. I suspect volcalis will prove to be a California variant of G. veletis, but only more study will tell for sure.

Moved from Field Crickets.
… David J. Ferguson, 2 January, 2012 - 3:33am login or register to post comments

It is a Field Creek,
but getting it to species will be difficult. There are several species in California, and some of those don't even have names yet. However, there is work being done on sorting them out, and perhaps more information on them will be published before too much longer. And, yes, recording the song would definitely help pin it down a little better, but your description might help to narrow it down (they don't all sound like that :-)

Having said all that, I'd lay odds that this is G. veletis.

Moved from Long-horned Orthoptera.
… David J. Ferguson, 21 May, 2010 - 11:17pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids. I can't give you a species name....but am moving it into crickets awaiting an expert.
… Wisconsin Oecanthinancy, 14 May, 2010 - 8:50pm login or register to post comments

GREAT photo
.
… Wisconsin Oecanthinancy, 12 May, 2010 - 5:58am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks -
I've found it difficult to track down and observe crickets, so this "cooperative" one was really a treat. It was essentially chirping before my eyes...
… Ken Schneider, 12 May, 2010 - 8:56am login or register to post comments

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