page_title: Cricket (insect)
section_title: In human culture
hierarchical_section_title: Cricket (insect) / In human culture
caption_attribution_description: English: An illustration of The Talking Cricket by Enrico Mazzanti from "Le avventure di Pinocchio" (The Adventures of Pinocchio) by Carlo Collodi. Euskara: Kilker hiztunaren irudia. Irudigilea: Enrico Mazzati. Carlo Collodi idazlearen Le avventure di Pinocchio. Storia di un burattino liburuko irudia.
context_page_description: Crickets, of the family Gryllidae, are insects related to bush crickets, and, more distantly, to grasshoppers. The Gryllidae have mainly cylindrical bodies, round heads, and long antennae. Behind the head is a smooth, robust pronotum. The abdomen ends in a pair of long cerci; females have a long, cylindrical ovipositor. The hind legs have enlarged femora, providing power for jumping. The front wings are adapted as tough, leathery elytra, and some crickets chirp by rubbing parts of these together. The hind wings are membranous and folded when not in use for flight; many species, however, are flightless. The largest members of the family are the bull crickets, Brachytrupes, which are up to 5 cm long.
  More than 900 species of crickets are described; the Gryllidae are distributed all around the world except at latitudes 55° or higher, with the greatest diversity being in the tropics. They occur in varied habitats from grassland, bushes, and forests to marshes, beaches, and caves. Crickets are mainly nocturnal, and are best known for the loud, persistent, chirping song of males trying to attract females, although some species are mute.
caption: Il Grillo Parlante (The Talking Cricket) illustrated by Enrico Mazzanti for Carlo Collodi's 1883 children's book "Le avventure di Pinocchio" (The Adventures of Pinocchio)
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