Around the Mediterranean Sea, cicadas are singing. We
do have some that come from the Black Mountain southern slope, but the singers
in the night here are field crickets (Gryllus
campestris ).
Female (with its ovipositor)
They belong to the Orthoptera order which
includes the grasshoppers we can find here too. Crickets are vegetarian. The
males make a burrow with a platform at the entrance from which they attract
females with their courtship stridulation.
Males are territorial and defend their burrows fiercely. They are used in
Asia and particularly in China for fighting.
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