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Facts About Orthoptera
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| Term Paper Title | Facts About Orthoptera |
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| # of Pages (250 words per page double spaced) | 4.63 |
Facts about Orthoptera
Facts about Orthoptera
Where they live.
Field crickets, the familiar black or brownish crickets are often
abundant in meadows and fields. Also in dwellings or in small clusters in the
ground. Tree Crickets are more often heard then seen. Usually colored green
these slender crickets live in shrubs and trees. Mole Crickets can burrow
rapidly through moist soil. They also can live in caves, hollow logs, beneath
stones, and other dark moist places. Grasshoppers are also part of this group.
They often become very abundant, and migrate in tremendous swarms. Destroying
nearly all plants in their path. They like to live in wet grassy areas. Locust
also contribute to Orthoptera. Locust plagues have been recorded since the
beginning of history and are still one of the worlds major insect problems.
Cockroaches are in this group too. Their are an estimated 3,000 cockroach
species in the world. About 55 live in the U.S., and only 4 species ar common
household pets. German cockroaches or Croton bugs, are common in the U.S.
especially in the northern states. They commonly enter the house in bags or
boxes from grocery stores. They tend to cluster in warm moist places around hot
water pipes. They stay hidden when they are not eating.
Eat
Crickets will eat holes in paper or in garments especially those soiled
with persperation. They also eat young roots and seedlings, peanuts, garden
crops, grain, clothing, and sometimes other insects and even each other.
Grasshoppers are a different story. They eat crops and destroy millions of
dollars a year in them. Cockroaches are just a pest and they eat almost any
thing. Cockroaches feed on a great variety of foods, meats, cheeses, sweets,
and starches(like the starch in clothing or in the glue like that in book
bindings, and stamps.). When abundant they may also eat human hair, skin and
nails. They secrete sticky, odorous fluid that may be lift on foods or
materials.
Movement
Cockroaches move very swiftly. They have 6 legs with 3 joints, as
muscles contract at the base of the body the legs move. This motion causes a
roach to lurch forward in rapid motion. Crickets have wings so they may fly.
The movement of the crickets aren't the same as the grasshopper's. The
grasshopper is an insect that can leap about 20 times the length of its body.
If a human being had the same leaping ability as the grasshopper they could jump
at least 20 feet.
Helpful things they do.
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