This material tells about what the cricket eats, where it lives and what it can serve the person. Perhaps he will help those who decide to keep these insects at home in insectarium.
Why breed crickets?
People interested in entomology often breed special insects in a variety of insects. They observe their behavior, sometimes engage in breeding. Crickets are no exception. And for the insects to feel as comfortable as possible, you need to know what the cricket eats, what temperature it prefers, what it needs to exist, except for food and drink.
Most often all the same, modern people are engaged in breeding various insects in order to feed them with other pets: birds, reptiles, small predators, such as hedgehogs.
“A merry company sits behind the stove and, singing a song, moves its mustache!”
Half a century ago, a song about four inseparable cockroaches and a cricket living behind an old man’s stove was very popular. Oh, what a poor grandfather just did not do to get rid of annoying tenants! But nothing helped. He even at the end of the song blew up his stove with dynamite. But this did not help either. According to the author of a hit of the last century, an inseparable company sat on a pile of stones and joyfully greeted its neighbor.
A song is a song, but it is also based on some facts. And questions arise in the head by themselves. Why did this company not please the elderly man? And why did the cricket suddenly make friends with cockroaches? We will try to find answers to them.
Why aren't most people happy with the neighborhood of crickets?
For what people hate the neighborhood of cockroaches, they know almost everything. And why did the old man not like the cricket so much? Maybe he was pissed off by chirping in the middle of the night, because not everyone is pleased with it.
The answer immediately to both the first and second questions will be the assumption that the behavior of cockroaches and crickets in the human home is the same. After all, both insects climb on tables, crawl into bread bins, rubbish bins, slots between the pan and the lid, in packets of cookies, sausage, cheese, in short, spoil food, leaving their marks on them, eating even in some places quite noticeable notches.
Experts say that if so many cockroaches or crickets are divorced in the room that they are short of food, they can bite small pieces of skin from a person at night, for example, from toes.
Here the question arises: what does the cricket eat? Does he, like a cockroach, like human food?
What does cricket eat?
The fact that crickets are friendly to cockroaches is a complete fiction. They cannot be peaceful towards each other, because they feed on the same. So the question is what the cricket eats, the answer will be quite short: that's it. This insect is omnivorous.
For those who do not know what crickets eat in nature, you can imagine a rather long list. The main food of insects are materials of plant origin.
Also, crickets do not disdain small representatives of the invertebrate class. And if on their way a corpse of some creature suddenly appears, then even here they will not fail to profit. In feedlessness, these insects may display traits of cannibalism. Yes Yes! Adult individuals, in order to satisfy their hunger, do not shy from attacking younger and weaker brothers, devouring them. And they will not leave egg clutches unattended, not caring that they reduce the future offspring of their kind with their deed.
It is clear that even biting the edge of the human finger, carelessly sticking out from under the covers at night, is not a difficult task for a cricket, like for a cockroach. Especially if this "negligent" owner suddenly began to observe absolute cleanliness and order for no reason, hid all the food and stopped leaving crumbs, drops of liquids, slices or bits of fruit, vegetables and other delicacies deliciously delicious for omnivorous insects on the table.