Other Florida field and house crickets. The house cricket is probably native to southwestern Asia, but has been widely distributed by man. Why it fails to survive in peninsular Florida is not known. They have no special overwintering stage, but survive cold weather in the northern States and Canada in and around buildings and in dumps, where heat from fermentation may sustain them. Eggs are deposited in whatever damp substrate is provided for example, sand or peat moss.
Juveniles resemble the adults except for being smaller and wingless.
The house cricket is a 16 to 21 mm long, light yellowish-brown cricket, with wings that cover the abdomen. It has three dark transverse bands on the top of the head and between the eyes. All house crickets have long hind wings when they become adult, but they sometimes shed them later. In Florida, house crickets are usually found where they have recently escaped or been released for example, on the shores where people fish. Song As in most other crickets , male house crickets make a calling song by rubbing a scraper on the inner edge of the left wing against the teeth of a file that is beneath the right wing.