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Just something to celebrate World Cricket Day, the day when we stop and show some appreciation (and maybe some love) for one of the famous chirping, ground-dwelling bugs that we would find in our own backyards. From what we know, crickets are one of the many insects that live among us. Now, you might be wondering on what's so important or great about crickets, there are plenty of facts about crickets (aside from one fact that they serve as food for many other animals, including birds) that you should know about:

1. Belonging to the suborder, Ensifera, crickets have been around since the Triassic period (around, or even before, the time when the dinosaurs just showed up).

2. While their long hind legs can help them escape predators, crickets usually defend themselves by either camouflage, fleeing, and aggression.

3. Crickets hatch from an egg into a nymph stage (which increasingly resembles the adult form as the nymph grows), and then, after passing through about 10 larval stages with each successive moult, an adult stage.

4. Male Crickets establish their dominance with aggression, which they start by lashing each other with their antennae and flaring their mandibles.

5. Males attract females with their calls.

6. The diet of crickets depend on the species. Some are herbivorous, others (especially in captivity) are omnivorous, some are predators, and a few are scavengers.

7. While they resemble grasshoppers, crickets are only distinctly related to them (as crickets belong to the suborder, Ensifera, and grasshoppers belong to the suborder, Caelifera).

8. While grasshoppers are diurnal, crickets are nocturnal.

9. Crickets have long been featured in folklore, myth, and literature.

10. There are types (families and subfamilies) of crickets, including mole crickets, cave crickets. scaly crickets, spider-crickets, ground crickets, and true crickets (the family of those being Gryllidae).

Whatever you think about them, they're just animals trying to survive and thrive. So, why not just show some appreciation and respect for them for these hopping and singing insects they are, maybe just for once? Anyway, Happy World Cricket Day, everyone (from this hoppy and grass-loving trio gathered here).

Note: World Cricket Day is usually about a bat-and-ball game, But I figured the insects should have their day too.

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Just something to celebrate World Cricket Day, the day when we stop and show some appreciation (and maybe some love) for one of the famous chirping, ground-dwelling bugs that we would find in our own backyards. From what we know, crickets are one of the many insects that live among us. Now, you might be wondering on what's so important or great about crickets, there are plenty of facts about crickets (aside from one fact that they serve as food for many other animals, including birds) that you should know about:

1. Belonging to the suborder, Ensifera, crickets have been around since the Triassic period (around, or even before, the time when the dinosaurs just showed up).

2. While their long hind legs can help them escape predators, crickets usually defend themselves by either camouflage, fleeing, and aggression.

3. Crickets hatch from an egg into a nymph stage (which increasingly resembles the adult form as the nymph grows), and then, after passing through about 10 larval stages with each successive moult, an adult stage.

4. Male Crickets establish their dominance with aggression, which they start by lashing each other with their antennae and flaring their mandibles.

5. Males attract females with their calls.

6. The diet of crickets depend on the species. Some are herbivorous, others (especially in captivity) are omnivorous, some are predators, and a few are scavengers.

7. While they resemble grasshoppers, crickets are only distinctly related to them (as crickets belong to the suborder, Ensifera, and grasshoppers belong to the suborder, Caelifera).

8. While grasshoppers are diurnal, crickets are nocturnal.

9. Crickets have long been featured in folklore, myth, and literature.

10. There are types (families and subfamilies) of crickets, including mole crickets, cave crickets. scaly crickets, spider-crickets, ground crickets, and true crickets (the family of those being Gryllidae).

Whatever you think about them, they're just animals trying to survive and thrive. So, why not just show some appreciation and respect for them for these hopping and singing insects they are, maybe just for once? Anyway, Happy World Cricket Day, everyone (from this hoppy and grass-loving trio gathered here).

Note: World Cricket Day is usually about a bat-and-ball game, But I figured the insects should have their day too.