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Family GRYLLIDAE
- This page contains pictures and information about the Slow-chirping
Mottled Field Crickets that we found in the Brisbane area,
Queensland, Australia.
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  - Female body length 25mm,
Nymph body length 10mm
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- The Slow-chirping
Mottled Field Cricket is dark brown in colour. Female has long pin at
the end of the abdomen which is its ovipositor. The second picture shows the nymph
cricket, look similar to the adults except they are wingless.
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 - Male Field Cricket calling in the hole, heading outwards with antenna
outside.
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Click here to hear the mole cricket sound,
8 sec.-
- This Field Crickets are common in backyards
in Brisbane. Although we seldom see them, we always hear them. Male cricket
chirp from evening to dawn. They live under dead plant materials and also
feed on them.
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- Reference:
- 1. Insects
of Australia, CSIRO, Division of Entomology, Melbourne University
Press, 2nd Edition 1991, p386.
- 2. Grasshopper
Country - the Abundant Orthopteroid Insects of Australia, D Rentz,
UNSW Press, 1996, p127
- 3. Lepidogryllus comparatus - Australian Insect Common Names, CSIRO,16 June 2005
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