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 / Tobacco Cricket (Brachytrupes membranaceus), Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique

Piotr Naskrecki / Two-spotted Cricket (Gryllus bimaculatus), Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique

Piotr Naskrecki / Tobacco Cricket (Brachytrupes membranaceus) at burrow, Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique

Piotr Naskrecki / Tobacco Cricket (Brachytrupes membranaceus) at burrow, Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique

Piotr Naskrecki / Bell Cricket (Homoeogryllus orientalis), Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique

Hans Glader/ BIA / Cretzschmar's Bunting (Emberiza caesia) male with cricket prey, Lesvos, Greece

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

Konrad Wothe / European field cricket (Gryllus campestris) male calling whilst sitting amongst grass, Upper Bavaria, Germany, May. Another cricket enters frame and leaves.

Roman Willi / Whipspider (Paraphrynus sp.) clutching its cricket (Gryllidae) prey, Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica.

Konrad Wothe / European field cricket (Gryllus campestris) emerging from burrow, Bavaria, Germany. May.

Konrad Wothe / European field cricket (Gryllus campestris) emerging from burrow, Bavaria, Germany. May.

Doug Wechsler / Restless bush cricket (Hapithus agitator) resting on a plant stem with Parasitic wasp larva (Rhopalosomatidae), Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA. (Gryllidae)

Morley Read / Velvet worm (Onychophora) feeding on Cricket after ejecting net of sticky glue like substance. Yasuni National Park, Ecuador.

Konrad Wothe / Green cricket, mimicking leaf, coastal rainforest, Mata Atlantica, Bahia, Brazil.

Nick Upton / Dark bush cricket (Pholidoptera griseoaptera) first instar nymph sunning on a Periwinkle leaf in a garden, Wiltshire, UK, April.

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Crickets on skewers. Open-air food market in central Beijing, China.