common names: house and field crickets
scientific names: Acheta, Gryllodes, and Gryllus (Insecta: Orthoptera: family Gryllidae: subfamily Gryllinae)

House and field crickets are large, ground-dwelling, black or brown crickets. They are among the most frequently encountered of Florida’s 80 cricket species. House crickets are largely tan or brown in color, whereas field crickets are largely black. For pictures, descriptions, and sounds of our eight species, click on their common names below.
Acheta domesticus (Linnaeus), house cricket
Gryllodes sigillatus (F. Walker), tropical house cricket
Gryllus spp., field crickets
Gryllus firmus Scudder, sand field cricket
Gryllus rubens Scudder, southeastern field cricket
Gryllus texensis Cade & Otte, southwestern field cricket
Gryllus assimilis (Fabricius), Jamaican field cricket
Gryllus fultoni (Alexander), southern wood cricket
Gryllus ovisopis T. Walker, taciturn wood cricket

Author: Thomas J. Walker, University of Florida
Photographs: Paul M. Choate, University of Florida
Project Coordinator: Thomas R. Fasulo, University of Florida
Publication Numbers: EENY 63-71
Publication Date: January, 1999. Revised, May 2000.
Copyright 1999, University of Florida

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