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• n  common American black cricket; attacks crops and also enters dwellings

• Acheta assimilis

News & Articles

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• Swarms of crickets take over Oklahoma
  Swarms of crickets are terrorizing residents across Oklahoma this summer. Entomologists at Oklahoma State University say the summer's right combination of weather conditions such as a dry spring and early summer followed by late July and August rainfall have helped with the field cricket explosion. If field crickets have safe places to lay their eggs, and some of their predators are gone, they ...
  Sept. 6, 2013 - Local 6 Orlando
• Oklahoma City is overrun with an invasion of crickets
  Oklahoma City Downtown business owners have their hands full corralling brown field crickets.
  Sept. 5, 2013 - KTIV Sioux City