Nemobius sylvestris (Bosc, 1792)

Wood Cricket

Taxonomy: 

  • Orthoptera›Ensifera›Grylloidea›Gryllidae›Nemobiinae›Nemobius sylvestris

Status: 

UK

Distribution

Recordings

  • Calling song.
  • Chorus.

Colours show the year of the last record -

  up to 1987   1988-97   1998 up to present

Only Recording Scheme datasets are included. Other datasets on the Gateway may hold additional information.

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Description: 

A small, dark brown cricket with a paler pronotum.

Size: 

7-12 mm

Wings: 

Flightless with reduced forewings.

Stridulation: 

Low purring song that is difficult to hear from a solitary male but can be heard from a chorus of males.

Food: 

Dead leaves and fungi.

Habitat: 

Deep leaf litter in warm clearings and sunny edges of woods or areas of scrub but can also occur in stone walls, earth banks, and clay sea cliffs near wood or scrub.

Phenology: 

Two year life cycle, adults present from June to the end of October.