Adult field cricket, usually found in association with a weedy border area.

Common Name:  Field cricket

Scientific Name: Gryllus firmus (Walker) and G. rubens (Scudder)

Description: Field crickets are the frequently encountered, dark brown insects with long legs and long antennae, much like the crickets sold for fish bait.  Males of this species may be noted in warm weather by their songs, a series of short chirps, from under the plastic mulch.  Adult field crickets are winged.  The young are wingless but otherwise similar to adults.

Fruit damaged by field crickets which scrap the seeds from the fruit and field corn for field crickets.

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