What is this?

[Shawn Seeger]

My dad's place had had a major influx of these bugs... anybody know what they are?

 

[Stonedfish]

Looks like a cricket.
SF

 

[jact55]

I name him Jiminy

 

[_WW_]

Bait.

 

[Draketake]

cricket

 

[Zak]

I'm having a little trouble getting my head around not recognizing a cricket. They are all over the place in New England. Are they rarer out here?

 

[RCF]

I'm having a little trouble getting my head around not recognizing a cricket. They are all over the place in New England. Are they rarer out here?

When was the last time you heard a cricket in the PNW? There in lies your answer.

Heard lots of them when I lived in the South.

 

[Jake Watrous]

Conscience

 

[brownheron]

I'm having a little trouble getting my head around not recognizing a cricket. They are all over the place in New England. Are they rarer out here?

Same here Zak. I thought the original post was a joke.

I never noticed the lack of crickets here but I sure do miss the lightning bugs.

 

[Zak]

Same here Zak. I thought the original post was a joke.

I never noticed the lack of crickets here but I sure do miss the lightning bugs.

Me too! I haven't seen a lightning bug since Vermont! Come to think of it, I'm not sure I've heard a cricket here.

 

[Zak]

Me too! I haven't seen a lightning bug since Vermont! Come to think of it, I'm not sure I've heard a cricket here.

My wife had crickets in Oregon and my son heard a cricket stuck in a wall in Duvall. So that's two data points.

 

[Phil K]

There's crickets in the backcountry for sure.

 

[TicTokCroc]

I'm listening to a chorus right now, even through the closed window. We always have crickets late summer here. 25 miles west of Portland. Ours look more like this though, not like the pet store crickets.

 

[Zak]

I'm listening to a chorus right now, even through the closed window. We always have crickets late summer here. 25 miles west of Portland. Ours look more like this though, not like the pet store crickets.
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Yeah that's not a regular black cricket.

 

[FinLuver]

Grasshoppers, Crickets, and Katydids of Columbia County, Oregon

Grasshoppers, Crickets, and Katydids are part of the insect order Orthoptera, known for long legs that give them the ability to jump, stiff wings that fold against the body, and noises made by rubb…

wildcolumbia.org

 

[Divad]

Field cricket?

 

[Draketake]

Central Oregon has Crickets and very few of those Katydids.

Love listening to the crickets on the Lower Deschutes.

Fireflies......brings back so many happy summer memories.

Have a good weekend all.

Bob

 

[SKYKO]

The crickets on the lower D are amazing in the evenings.

 

[Bagman]

They are great bait for pan fish, we also had a cadge to keep them it.

 

[Zak]

If you put two of them in a bowl they will fight and you can bet on them. Some people keep champion fighting crickets in ornate little cages.