Habits
Field crickets must lay their eggs in the soil; house crickets are adapted to laying their eggs indoors where they occasionally become pests. Crickets go through a simple metamorphosis: egg, nymph, adult. Immature nymphs closely resemble their adult counterparts. Field crickets prefer to stay outside in moist environments; house crickets are common inside homes near fireplaces and furnaces. The odd-looking Jerusalem cricket spends most of its life underground, whereas the mole cricket spends most of its life at or just below the soil surface.
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