Screeching Cricket

Screeching crickets are extremely common cricket species found in the Tropics and the Region of Sarra, living in the Tropics in Summers and hibernating in Winters. They are majorly considered pests, as they consume the crops that people grow. They have a strong reputation to completely decimate crop fields, and people have desperately tried to create pest repellents and other things to deter these creatures.

Basic Information

Anatomy

Screeching crickets have the typical anatomy of a cricket or a grasshopper, with cylindrical shaped bodies, round heads, and long antennae. The general colour of a screeching cricket is a dark brown, and the legs, antennae and wings end in black. Their bodies are rather flat, being able to squish themselves in small gaps. The wings lie flat on their backs, and the forewings are elytra made of a tough green chitin, protecting its other pair of wings and its soft body.

Genetics and Reproduction

Screeching crickets lay their eggs in the mess that is the eaten wastelands they create. Once they eat enough food, they have enough energy to lay a ton of eggs, up to a hundred in a cluster. They then lay these randomly on the ground, without a care as to whether they survive.

Ecology and Habitats

Screeching crickets prefer warm temperatures, where they can get more energy from the sun. They fly in massive orchestras of up to a billion. In the savannas and grasslands they frequent, they completely decimate the plant life, eating entire plains of grasses in hours. Luckily, no more than a few orchestras exist, but they are slowly merging into one super-orchestra.

Dietary Needs and Habits

Screeching crickets are famous for eating entire forests worth of grasslands. In their millions, sometimes billions, they swarm open areas, digesting the plant life in its entirety. They aren't fussy either, their stomach can digest any type of plant, leading to some plant species evolving to deter these nasty pests.

Geographic Distribution

• Greenerth
• Region of Sarra
• Tropics

Screeching

Screeching crickets, as you'd guess, produce a horrifying sound to listen to. They rub their legs together incredibly fast, producing a high pitched screeching sound. This sound is not only irritating, but for children when heard in a close proximity can do serious damage, and in worst cases leads to loss of hearing.