crickets fight

[shiroitaka]

you know even after one cricket loses and run away, if you take it and throw it in the air a few times, he will totally forget about the loss that he just had and becomes aggressive again (he is ready for another fight, even with the same cricket). a good crickets fight last for about 30 minutes (so i read). the ones that i have personal experienced with lasted only about 5 minutes. The crix that you've seen the pix are from asia. Fighting crix in asia can be dirt cheap to being very expensive, depending on where their bloodline runs back to (champions). I find that the field crix here (in San Diego) don't have the yellow stripes on their outer wings. and yes, they chirp a lot during the fight. I've read somewhere that the louder their chirps are the bigger the crix or the stronger it is. So maybe by chirping during the fight, one cricket is saying that "i m chirping louder, therefore i am bigger, stronger, and i will win, so you might as well run away," or something in that manner.
i m not going to bother with the citations, if you are interest in it, then just google it.
Jason

 

[dtknow]

The tossing them up in the air is interesting as I have never seen a male cricket fly. And I've only seen a female house cricket fly once. So I wonder how they can be convinced to try to fly simply by being tossed in the air.

 

[shiroitaka]

in Vietnam, when i was a little kid, during crickets season. they would fly around at night. right now i've only got about 7 field cricket nymphs (US species, Gryllus pennsylvanicus, san diego to be specific) that do not have wings yet. so i can't test them yet, but when do they, i'll give it a try and let you know.
jason

 

[dtknow]

Interesting. I've heard in some areas when housecrickets reach plague proportions they will fly but when I was little I coaxed numerous ones to jump 12 feet off of a stairway to see if they would fly and most of them didn't even flutter.

 

[shiroitaka]

i think that there is a difference between HOUSE crickets and FIELD crickets, because everything you said so far are referring to house crickets and everything that i've talkin bout so far are referring to field crix.

 

[bugmankeith]

Field crickets sure do fly, i've seen a few fly outside when looking for a new area to live, such as a moist, dark place. Most of them were females, but I did see one male fly onto my bansiter outside.

If they are missing the long wings (clear) they cant fly, and most crickets here shed theirs early, I dont know why.

House crickets fly too, but it's rare.

Tossing male crickets in the air does seem to get them into fighting mode, same goes for cockfights. Mabye spreading their wings is like weightlifting for us, healthy exercise that gets us pumped up!

 

[Canfire]

I'm thinking... how many people hunt here?

 

[ShadowBlade]

I do. Rifle and bow hunting, large game, small game, predator hunting- the works.
Not much trapping though.

BTW: I think I see where you're gonna go with this, just remember keep it on topic. Don't want to de-rail the thread to discuss the ethics of hunting.

 

[thisgal]

HEY!! I've got a better idea! How about you go live where there are BILLIONS of Fire ants combing across the South killing BILLIONS of other species of insects, and totally ruining land! Turning your front lawn into a never ending battleground of a dozen different colonies. Which can eventually assimilate to the other colonies, join, and just march across your front porch! They are not even native!

Now, lets not hi-jack this thread. If I find the thread you refer to, I'll join in.

HEY! It's the thread about fire ants' natural predators.

I was born and (mostly) raised in Houston, TX. You know, that place where BILLIONS of fire ants live...? I have this nasty memory of being attacked by a colony of them when I was two years old.

My point was that some people in this thread seem to have a problem with the demise of crickets, yet there's an untouched thread about nasty ways to kill entire colonies of fire ants. All I did was point this out.

On another note, I don't really care who does what with whatever insect. I just noticed some ironic inconsistancies in the verbal attacks about cruelty here.

Oh, and by the way, I have never seen crickets fight anything except my fingers when they're about to be my scorps' dinner!

 

[8ball]

Oh thats not all good bro, I'm a boxer and all so I guess I can't talk alot but I think putting two creatures together to fight for your personal enjoyment is just wrong