Piotr Naskrecki / African Jerusalem Cricket (Sia sp) portrait, South Africa

Piotr Naskrecki / Cricket (Gryllidae), Estabrook Woods, Concord, Massachusetts

Piotr Naskrecki / Cricket (Gryllidae), Estabrook Woods, Concord, Massachusetts

Nick Upton / Male Dark bush cricket (Pholidoptera griseoaptera) clinging head down to a dead grass stem, chalk grassland meadow, Wiltshire, August, UK.

Nick Upton / Male Dark bush cricket (Pholidoptera griseoaptera) clinging upside down to a dead grass stem, chalk grassland meadow, Wiltshire, August, UK.

Nick Upton / Speckled bush cricket (Leptophyes punctatissima) standing on Wild marjoram flower (Origanum vulgare), chalk grassland meadow, Wiltshire, UK, July.

Nick Upton / Speckled bush cricket (Leptophyes punctatissima) standing on Wild marjoram flower (Origanum vulgare), chalk grassland meadow, Wiltshire, UK, July.

Piotr Naskrecki / Sac Fungus (Cordyceps sp) mycelium covering cricket that was parasitized and killed by the fungus, Sipaliwini, Surinam

Piotr Naskrecki / Cricket (Gryllidae), Saba, West Indies, Caribbean

Piotr Naskrecki / Saba Cricket (Amphiacusta saba) male calling, Saba, West Indies, Caribbean

Piotr Naskrecki / Saba Cricket (Amphiacusta saba) male calling, Saba, West Indies, Caribbean

Piotr Naskrecki / Jamaican Field Cricket (Gryllus assimilis) male, Saba, West Indies, Caribbean

Piotr Naskrecki / Cricket (Gryllidae), New Britain, Papua New Guinea

Piotr Naskrecki / Cricket (Gryllidae) nymph in defensive posture, Barbilla National Park, Costa Rica

Piotr Naskrecki / Allard's Ground Cricket (Allonemobius allardi), Estabrook Woods, Concord, Massachusetts

Piotr Naskrecki / House Cricket (Acheta domestica), Woburn, Massachusetts

Andy Sands / Wood cricket (Nemobius sylvestris) male on pine bark, Surrey, England, August

Andy Sands / Wood cricket (Nemobius sylvestris) male on pine bark, Surrey, England, August

Murray Cooper / Cricket (Gryllidae) hiding in rolled up leaf, Amazon, Ecuador

Nick Upton / Adult male Speckled bush cricket (Leptophyes punctatissima), eating leg of its own cast nymphal skin soon after final moult. Wiltshire garden, UK, August. . Property released.

John Cancalosi / Fossilised Cricket from the early Cretaceous period, Santana formation, Brazil

James Christensen / Thick-tailed Scorpion (Tityus pachyurus) with cricket as prey, Colon, Panama

Piotr Naskrecki / Sagebrush Grig (Cyphoderris strepitans) female eating males wings, a form of sexual cannibalism, during mating, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming

Piotr Naskrecki / Sagebrush Grig (Cyphoderris strepitans) female, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming

Piotr Naskrecki / Sagebrush Grig (Cyphoderris strepitans) male, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming

Piotr Naskrecki / Sagebrush Grig (Cyphoderris strepitans) cricket, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming

Vincent Grafhorst / Koringkriek Armored Bush Cricket (Acanthoplus armativentris) feeding on another cricket, Central Kalahari Game Reserve, Botswana

Michael & Patricia Fogden / Cricket (Gryllidae) camouflaged as stone, Kmersvlakte Desert, Namibia

Michael & Patricia Fogden / Cricket (Gryllidae) camouflaged as stone beside a stone plant, Knersvlakte Desert, Namibia

Konrad Wothe / Water Mint (Mentha aquatica) and cricket, Bavaria, Germany

Konrad Wothe / Army Ant (Eciton burchellii) submajor caste, carrying cricket, La Selva, Costa Rica

Konrad Wothe / Army Ant (Eciton burchellii) submajor caste, carrying cricket, La Selva, Costa Rica

Nick Garbutt / Lichen-mimic Bush Cricket (unknown species), Mt Kinabalu, Sabah, Borneo

Nick Garbutt / Lichen-mimic Bush Cricket (unknown species). Mt Kinabalu, Sabah, Borneo.

Nick Garbutt / Lichen-mimic Bush Cricket (unknown species) camouflaged on lichen and bark. Mt Kinabalu, Sabah, Borneo

Piotr Naskrecki / Bell Cricket (Homoeogryllus orientalis) on tree bark, South Africa

Pete Oxford / Cricket (Gryllidae) Amazonia, Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Carnivorous cricket (Gryllidae) showing mouthparts, Marojejy reserve, Madagascar

PREMAPHOTOS / Male Cricket (Brachytrupes orientalis: Gryllidae)calling (stridulating) very loudly at mouth of its burrow, which acts as an amplifier, at night in tropical rainforest, Thailand

Ingo Arndt / Wood Cricket (Nemobius sylvestris) grooming itself, Germany

Piotr Naskrecki / Cricket (Oecanthus sp) female depositing her eggs in plant stem, Guinea, West Africa

Piotr Naskrecki / Cricket (Phalangopsis sp) on mushroom, Costa Rica

Piotr Naskrecki / Cricket (Paragryllus sp) eating old cuticle after molting, Costa Rica, sequence 4 of 4

Piotr Naskrecki / Cricket (Paragryllus sp) next to old cuticle after molting, Costa Rica, sequence 3 of 4

Piotr Naskrecki / Cricket (Paragryllus sp) molting, showing insect emerging from cuticle, Costa Rica, sequence 2 of 4

Piotr Naskrecki / Cricket (Paragryllus sp) molting, Costa Rica, sequence 1 of 4

Piotr Naskrecki / Cricket (Phalangopsis sp) with mushrooms in the background, Costa Rica

Piotr Naskrecki / Ant (Odontomachus hastatus) pair attacking Cricket (Aclodes sp), Costa Rica

Duncan Usher / Field Cricket (Gryllus campestris) close up of adult male in the United Kingdom

Duncan Usher / Field Cricket (Gryllus campestris) adult in the United Kingdom

Konrad Wothe / Katydid (Poecilimon sp) on flower, Turkey

Mark Moffett / Creosote Bush (Larrea tridentata) with cricket

Piotr Naskrecki / Cricket (Gryllidae), Estabrook Woods, Concord, Massachusetts

Piotr Naskrecki / Cricket (Gryllidae), Estabrook Woods, Concord, Massachusetts

Piotr Naskrecki / Saba Cricket (Amphiacusta saba) male calling, Saba, West Indies, Caribbean

Kim Taylor / Giant cricket (Gryllidae) calling from mouth of burrow, Namibia, Africa

Kim Taylor / Giant cricket (Gryllidae) emerging from burrow, Namibia, Africa