Crickets live under rocks and logs in fields, grasslands , and meadows. Their body is covered with a hard exoskeleton. Crickets are brown or black. Crickets are very similar to grasshoppers, but the cricket's antennae are very long, the wings are held flat over the body, and the ovipositor is very long. Not all crickets have wings.
Crickets undergo incomplete metamorphosis.
They molt many times as they develop into adults. They scavenge dead insects and eat decaying material, fungi and young plants.