Crickets

It's a story about crickets!

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[historysky]

dem crickets are still babies, wings arent grown yet

[GoldenTony]

ok, that's called baby fight, how about it?

[7spear]

did the female fight too? Oo.

[GoldenTony]

No, man````female never fight!

[KnightSpirit001]

so damned funny

[GoldenTony]

Thanks a lot, man

[phudao41]

where can i buy these cricket as pet? not for feeder

[pokenei]

these are american field crickets. Generally, bigger is better when it comes to fighting. The biggest fighting crickets are gryllus bimaculatus. The biggest of these american field crickets is about the same size as the smallest gryllus bimaculatus. It would be interesting to have a battle between two different species of crickets.

[pokenei]

female also.

[pokenei]

1) make sure they're actually males

2) not all cricket species like to fight

3) if they're the fighting variety, you can loop a strand of hair between its hind leg and the abdomen and gently swirl the cricket in a circular motion (suspended by the hair).  This will induce the cricket to flap its wings. The act of flight brings back its fighting instinct.

[pokenei]

these are american field crickets. they're full grown. Their inner wings are very short so you don't see them. Evolution has made their inner wings useless for flight. But, occasionally, maybe one in a thousand may have recessive genes and develop full grown inner wings.

[youtoubakias]

Its not fair the one of them is smaller! ha ha

[xD3REKx]

that's 5 stars... The males only have 2 things on their butt, right?

[xD3REKx]

Why do my two (male) crickets not fight? What did you do to make them mad?