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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) » Sand Field Cricket (Gryllus firmus)
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Gryllus firmus - male
Copyright © 2013 metrioptera

Gryllus firmus - Male
Lake Placid, Highlands County, Florida, USA
May 19, 2013
Size: 1.5 cm
Same individual after nearly 3 months. It is being raised on a diet of fish flakes, spinach, and lettuce.

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Contributed by metrioptera on 19 May, 2013 - 6:00pm
Last updated 18 January, 2018 - 11:44am

just noticed I left this page behind when I moved the others
Moved from Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids.
… David J. Ferguson, 26 May, 2013 - 9:09am login or register to post comments

seems to be doing well
Interesting how it changed from coloring more like the adult female, to darker, more like the adult male. I expect (???) they all start out light and some darken as they mature? I wonder if diet or temperature makes any difference in the ultimate adult coloring.
… David J. Ferguson, 26 May, 2013 - 9:05am login or register to post comments

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