{"id":4174,"date":"2013-08-21T18:59:48","date_gmt":"2013-08-21T10:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/?p=4174"},"modified":"2013-08-25T19:12:09","modified_gmt":"2013-08-25T11:12:09","slug":"black-field-cricket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/21\/black-field-cricket\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Field Cricket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130822_151012.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4291 alignright\" alt=\"20130822_151012\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130822_151012-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130822_151012-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130822_151012.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>When I was walking back from reading the electricity meter &#8211; which is in the south east of the property &#8211; I noticed lots of hopping insects. \u00a0I thought it was a bit early for grasshoppers, so I caught one and googled it. \u00a0It turns out is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.herbiguide.com.au\/Descriptions\/hg_Black_Field_Cricket.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Black Field Cricket<\/a> (Teleogryllus commodus) and according to our local agriculture supplier<em> &#8220;is of minor occurrence usually and not considered a regular pest in WA.<\/em>&#8221; \u00a0It mainly eats decaying plant material and insect remains although they can be\u00a0a pest of pastures, lawns and golf courses. \u00a0The males chirp repeatedly at dusk and the female\u00a0lays about 2,000 eggs during her short life span of only a few months. \u00a0I will try and encourage the guinea fowl down to where they were, but Ginger chicken wasn&#8217;t interested in this one when I let it out of the jar.<\/p>\n<p>Some interesting facts about Black Field Crickets:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Antennae have over 30 segments.<br \/>\n&#8211; Sings or make clicking sounds and stops when approached.<br \/>\n&#8211; Lives in cracks in the soil and makes horizontal tunnels up to 15cm deep.<br \/>\n&#8211; Has wings but can&#8217;t fly.<br \/>\n&#8211; Has several moults before reaching it final size by the end of summer.<br \/>\n&#8211; Hatches from an egg in early to mid summer and the cold weather of winter kills them, so I am not sure what they are doing out at this time of year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was walking back from reading the electricity meter &#8211; which is in the south east of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4291,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-property","category-wildlife"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130822_151012.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4174"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4371,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4174\/revisions\/4371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}