Tree crickets prefer to oviposit their eggs in sturdy or woody stems.  This photo shows the holes made by a female tree cricket in the stem of a French Broom plant.

This little tree cricket has just emerged from the stem of a French Broom plant found near Bon Tempe Lake in California.

The blossoms of the French Broom plant look like yellow sweet peas; while the leaves resemble clover.  It is easy to see in this photo that there is an abundance of plant fibers for tree crickets to eat.

This is the stem from a Goldenrod plant which has many holes drilled into it by a female Black-horned tree cricket.  You can also see a bit of chewed plant material used to plug up the holes. 

This stem from a chrysanthemum plant has 6 eggs laid into it.  This stem allows one to more easily see the 'plugs' placed in each hole by the female Four-spotted tree cricket.

A female Forbes' tree cricket laid dozens of eggs into stems of a Red-twig Dogwood shrub.  The spaces between holes is a bit irregular.

The female that laid these eggs used more precise spacing between holes.  Tree cricket eggs in the northern states overwinter inside the stems -- this is why the females look for sturdy or woody stems.

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