Are crickets insects?

Crickets are also known as promoting weaving, commonly known as crickets, night bugs, general insects, autumn worms, cockfighting, promoting weaving, trend weaving, ground trumpet, stove chicken, Sun Wang, and so on. They are found almost all over the country, and there are more provinces south of the Yellow River. I like to live in hillsides, fields, rocky piles and grass with slightly moist soil. let's take a look at whether crickets are insects in the end.

Are crickets insects?

Crickets are insects. Cricket is an ancient insect. Cricket is an invertebrate of the family Orthoptera, which has a history of at least 140 million years. It propagates through egg-nymph-adult process and belongs to incomplete metamorphosis. About 2500 species are known in the world and about 150species in China, some of which are pests of dry crops.

What food do crickets eat?

Crickets living in the wild generally feed on buds, leaves and roots, while crickets raised by people will choose some food in proportion to make a rich nutritious meal in addition to a variety of fresh vegetables and fruits. Regular and quantitative feeding every day promotes crickets to grow healthier and braver.

What are the characteristics of insects?

1. The body is obviously divided into three parts: head, chest and abdomen, each of which is composed of several links. The head is healed by 6 links, and the adult has no traces of joints. The chest consists of three segments: the front chest, the middle chest and the back chest. The abdomen consists of 3-12 segments, most of which are 10-11 segments.

2. Adults have three pairs of segmented feet, which grow on three chest nodes respectively. Animals with less than three pairs of feet or more than three pairs of feet are not insects, which is the most obvious sign for the identification of insects.

3. The adults of most insects have two pairs of wings on the chest, some species of insects have evolved into only one pair of wings (such as mosquitoes, flies), and some species of insects have completely degraded wings (such as fleas, lice).

4. There are a pair of segmented antennae on the head of insects, which have the function of touch and smell, which are used to explore the way, find food, distinguish direction and courtship.

5. There is no skeleton in the insect body, and the adult body surface has a shell, which is called "exoskeleton".