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The Ground Crickets

These delightful little crickets look like tiny replicas of the field crickets, and are numerous in the appropriate habitats. Walking through a lawn, park or pasture on a warm late summer day will no doubt produce a multitude of small black crickets fleeing from your footsteps. While they might appear to be baby field crickets these are in fact the ground crickets. Male ground crickets produce pure toned trills as song. In some species the trills are so rapid that they sound link a buzz, while other species trill at a much slower rate, slow enough to count the individual chirps.

Here are six species of ground crickets that you are likely to find in fields, woods or marshes.