No, definitely I know about crickets:
Crickets are
orthopteran insects which are related to
bush crickets, and, more distantly, to
grasshoppers. In older literature, such as
Imms,
[3] "crickets" were placed at the family level (
i.e. Gryllidae), but contemporary authorities including
Otte now place them in the superfamily
Grylloidea.
[1] The word has been used in combination to describe more distantly related taxa
[3] in the suborder
Ensifera, such as
king crickets and
mole crickets.
Crickets have mainly cylindrically shaped bodies, round heads, and long
antennae. Behind the head is a smooth, robust
pronotum. The abdomen ends in a pair of long
cerci; females have a long, cylindrical
ovipositor. Diagnostic features include legs with 3-segmented
tarsi; as with many Orthoptera, the hind legs have enlarged
femora, providing power for jumping. The front wings are adapted as tough, leathery
elytra, and some crickets chirp by rubbing parts of these together. The hind wings are membranous and folded when not in use for flight; many species, however, are flightless. The largest members of the family are the bull crickets,
Brachytrupes, which are up to 5 cm (2 in) long.
Crickets are distributed all around the world except at latitudes 55° or higher, with the greatest diversity being in the
tropics. They occur in varied habitats from grassland, bushes, and forests to marshes, beaches, and caves. Crickets are mainly
nocturnal, and are best known for the loud, persistent, chirping song of males trying to attract females, although some species are mute. The singing species have good hearing, via the
tympana on the tibiae of the front legs.
Crickets often appear as characters in literature. The
Talking Cricket features in
Carlo Collodi's 1883 children's book,
The Adventures of Pinocchio, and in films based on the book. The insect is central to
Charles Dickens's 1845
The Cricket on the Hearth and
George Selden's 1960
The Cricket in Times Square. Crickets are celebrated in poems by
William Wordsworth,
John Keats,
Du Fu and
Vladimir Nazor. They are kept as pets in countries from China to Europe, sometimes for cricket fighting. Crickets are efficient at
converting their food into body mass, making them a candidate
for food production. They are used as human food in Southeast Asia, where they are sold
deep-fried in markets as snacks. They are also
used to feed carnivorous pets and zoo animals. In Brazilian folklore, crickets feature as omens of various events.
