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See also:CRICKET (Gryllidae) , a See also:family of saltatory Orthopterous See also:Insects, closely related to the Locustidae. The wings when folded See also:form See also:long slender filaments, which often reach beyond the extremity of the See also:body, and give the See also:appearance of a bifid tail, while in the male they are provided with a stridulating apparatus by which the well-known chirping See also:sound, to which the See also:insect owes its name, is produced. The See also:abdomen of the See also:female ends in a long slender ovipositor, which, however, is not exserted in the See also:mole cricket. The See also:house cricket (Gryllus domesticus) is of a greyish-yellow See also:colour marked with See also:- BROWN
- BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
- BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
- BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
- BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
- BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
- BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
- BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
- BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
- BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
- BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
- BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
- BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
- BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
- BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
- BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
- BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
- BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
- BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
- BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
- BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
- BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
- BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)
brown. It frequents houses, especially in rural districts, where its lively, if somewhat monotonous, chirp may be heard nightly in the neighbourhood of the fireplace. It is particularly fond of warmth, and is thus frequently found in bakeries, where its burrows are often sunk to within a few inches of the See also:oven. In the hot summer it goes out of doors, and frequents the walls of gardens, but returns again to its See also:place by the See also:hearth on the first approach of See also:cold, where, should the See also:heat of the See also:fire be withdrawn, it becomes dormant. It is nocturnal, coming forth at the evening See also:twilight in See also:search of See also:food, which consists of See also:bread crumbs and other refuse of the See also:kitchen. The See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field cricket (Gryllus campestris) is a larger insect than the former, and of a darker colour. It burrows in the ground to a See also:depth of from 6 to 12 in., and in the evening the male may be observed sitting at the mouth of its hole noisily stridulating until a female approaches, " when," says See also:Bates, " the louder notes are succeeded by a more subdued See also:tone, whilst the successful musician caresses with his antennae the See also:mate he has won." The musical apparatus in this See also:species consists of upwards of 130 transverse ridges on the under See also:side of one of the nervures of the wing See also:cover, which are rapidly scraped over a smooth, projecting nervure on the opposite wing. The female deposits her eggs—about 200 in number—on the ground, and when hatched the larvae, which resemble the perfect insect except in the See also:absence of wings, form burrows for themselves in which they pass the See also:winter. The mole cricket (Gryllotalpa vulgaris) owes its name to the striking See also:analogy in its habits and structure to those of the See also:common mole. Its body is thick and cylindrical in shape, and it burrows by means of its front legs, which are See also:short and greatly flattened out and thickened, with the See also:outer edge partly notched so as somewhat to resemble a See also:hand. It prefers loose and sandy ground in which to dig, its burrow consisting of a See also:vertical See also:shaft from which long See also:horizontal galleries are given off; and in making those excavations it does immense injury to gardens and vineyards by destroying the See also:tender roots of See also:plants, which form its See also:principal food. It also feeds upon other insects, and even upon the weak of its own species in the absence of other food. It is exceedingly fierce and voracious, and is usually caught by inserting a See also:stem of grass into its hole, which being seized, is retained till the insect is brought to the See also:surface. The female deposits her eggs in a neatly constructed subterranean chamber, about the See also:size of a See also:hen's See also:egg, and sufficiently near the surface to allow of the eggs being hatched by the heat of the See also:sun.
End of Article: CRICKET (Gryllidae)
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