What does a cricket eat in nature and in human habitation?

2024 Author: Henry Conors | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-12 02:46

About what the cricket eats, where it lives and how it can serve a person, this material tells. Perhaps he will help those who decide to keep these insects at home, in the insectarium.

Why are crickets bred?

People interested in entomology often breed a wide variety of insects in special insectaria. They observe their behavior, sometimes engaged in selection. Crickets are no exception. And in order for insects to feel as comfortable as possible, you need to know what the cricket eats, what temperature it prefers, what it needs for existence, except for food and drink.

Most often, after all, modern people are breeding various insects in order to feed them to other pets: birds, reptiles, small predators, such as hedgehogs.

A cheerful company sits behind the stove and, singing a song, moves its mustache

From half a century ago, a song about four inseparable cockroaches and a cricket living behind the old man's stove was very popular. What the poor grandfather did to get rid of annoying tenants! But nothing helped. He even blew up his stove with dynamite at the end of the song. But that didn't help either. According to the author of the hit of the last century, an inseparable company sat on a pile of stones and joyfully greeted their neighbor.

A song is a song, but even it is based on some facts. And questions arise in my head. What did this company not please the elderly man so much? And why did the cricket suddenly make friends with cockroaches? Let's try to find answers to them.

Why don't most people enjoy being around crickets?

Why people hate the neighborhood of cockroaches, almost everyone knows. And why did the old man dislike the cricket so much? Maybe he was pissed off by chirping in the middle of the night, because it is far from being pleasant for everyone.

The answer to both the first and second question will be the assumption that the behavior of cockroaches and crickets in a human home is the same. After all, both insects climb tables, crawl into bread bins, trash cans, gaps between the pan and the lid, into bags with cookies, sausage, cheese, in short, spoil food, leaving their marks on them, eating even in some places completely noticeable notches.

Experts say: if so many cockroaches or crickets breed indoors that they don’t have enough food, they can gnaw off small pieces of human skin at night, for example, from toes.

This is where the question arises: what does a cricket eat? Does he like human food just like a cockroach?

What does a cricket eat?

The fact that crickets are friendly to cockroaches is a complete fabrication. They cannot treat each other peacefully, because they feed on the same thing. So to the question of what the cricket eats, the answer will be short enough: everything. This insect is omnivorous.

For those who don't know what crickets eat in nature, a rather long list can be presented. The main food of insects are materials of vegetable origin.

Crickets also do not disdain small representatives of the class of invertebrates. And if the corpse of some creature is suddenly found on their way, then they will not fail to profit. In starvation, these insects may show signs of cannibalism. Yes Yes! Adult individuals, in order to satisfy their hunger, do not hesitate to attack younger and weaker brethren, devouring them. And they will not leave the laying of eggs without attention, not at all caring that by their act they reduce the future offspring of their kind.

It is clear that biting, if something happens, the edge of a human finger, carelessly sticking out from under the blanket at night, for a cricket, as well as for a cockroach, is a simple matter. Especially if this "careless" owner suddenly, for no reason at all, began to observe absolute cleanliness and order, hid all the food and stopped leaving crumbs, drops of liquids, pieces or cores of fruits, vegetables and other delicacies remarkably tasty for omnivorous insects on the table.