BEHAVIOR

Tree crickets display a variety of interesting behaviors.  Most of what is offered on this page is from direct observations of tree crickets I have encountered or raised.

This Narrow-winged tree cricket is eating commercial cricket food powder.  This little creature is almost cat-like in the manner it is eating.

This male is scouting his surroundings before literally taking a 'flying leap' -- tree crickets initially leap and use their wings to guide them.

This is a female O. celerinictus and a male TX sp. C.  They were placed in the same vase to rule out the male being O. celerinictus.  The female spent over a minute touching the male with her antennae -- and seemed to be enticing him to sing and offer her access to his metanotal gland.  He did not, however, seem interested in her.  After a while, as if to tell her "Go away, I'm not your kind" -- he gave a short trill.  She in turn, seemed to realize by his song that he was not her species -- turned around -- and paid him no further attention.

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