Warning: Contains highly gruesome and squeal-inducing, large-sized photos of INSECTS with triangular, insect-shaped heads and ANTENNAE. Please abstain from reading if you are at all squeamish or suffer from insect phobia.
We caught a CRICKET in the bedroom!
First time I’ve ever seen a cricket here in Spain. I HEAR them quite often. But they’re always hidden away somewhere, I’ve never actually SEEN one before.
I did see one when I went to South Africa and I went bonkers. Because in Canada they are GREEN and in South Africa they are BLACK.
This is the one I saw in South Africa. As you can see it looks like the Spanish one but the Spanish one is even bigger!
These hot weather crickets look so scary because they are BLACK. In Canada they look green and innocent, cute even. Well sort of. As cute as an INSECT can ever look, anyway.
Green bugs are not scary. BLACK bugs are scary!
Well more than black it’s dark brown here. But it’s BIG!
We let it out the living-room window, hope it doesn’t hop in again.
Our poor cat had been going crazy all night trying to hunt down the cricket haha. He couldn’t catch it, cats can’t catch things that JUMP.
Finally he went out on his own personal high-rise apartment window catio trying to source another cricket to hunt.
Well we’d been listening to that tiresome cricket CRICKING away every night for ages, but it always sounded like it was outside not inside. I wonder when and how it got in.
It used to make the HUGEST biggest racket. I wonder how many decibels a cricket can produce.
And now it was the first night in ages that we enjoyed absolute, complete, sublime SILENCE haha.
So I decided to do a tad bit of research and I discovered why crickets are BLACK in South Africa, dark brown in Spain and green in Canada. Apparently they are different species of crickets, it’s not the temperature that determines their colour.
So the black crickets are black because they are the African black cricket. European crickets are brown or dark brown and the green ones in Canada are another species altogether.
By the by the cricket started CRICKING away again, this time it sounded further away. I’m glad it found a new home to accommodate itself in, hopefully not too close to our windows hehe.
At least the good thing about it cricking is that it means it’s a male cricket, so it wouldn’t have left any eggs.
Our poor cat who couldn’t hunt down any crickets. They sure would’ve made a tasty meal for him.
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