Camel Crickets - What's up with them? Quiz

Answer: They have slightly humped backs.

Camel crickets have long antennae and can jump high. They can be light or dark brown with darker spots and can grow up to one and a half inches long. They eat almost anything and are found on most continents.

Answer: Camel crickets are attracted to light.

Camel crickets actually avoid light. They like dark places to live. Unlike field crickets, camel crickets don't chirp or have wings. Their long legs make them resemble spiders.

Answer: log crickets

They are known as cave crickets because they are often found in caves. The names spider crickets and humpback crickets come from their appearance. They are also sometimes referred to sprickets or spickets, a mixture of spider and cricket. Stone cricket is another name for them as well.

Answer: Rhaphidophoridae

Camel crickets are in the order Orthoptera. They were placed into the family Rhaphidophoridae by Brunner von Wattenwyl in 1888. Field crickets are in the Gryllidae (Ignacio Bolívar, 1878).

Answer: moistness and darkness

In houses, they are usually found in basements. They like to live in caves, logs, or under stones. They also like cool places. Extreme heat outside makes them come indoors.

Answer: nymph

Nymphs hatch from eggs. They look a lot like the adults except that they are smaller and translucent.

Answer: They damage paper and fabric products.

Camel crickets eat paper and fabric products. Although people tend to be scared of them, they are harmless to humans. They aren't known to reproduce very much indoors.

Answer: Southeastern U.S.

Many of the Hadenoecus camel crickets live in the Mammoth Cave system in Kentucky. They have been known to jump to scare off threats.

Answer: greenhouse

As their name suggests, they tend to live in greenhouses. They originally came from Eastern Asia. They are less than an inch long and they are a yellowish brown.

Answer: both of these

They will only eat their own limbs if there is nothing else for them to eat. They do eat each other more commonly than themselves. They also eat leaf debris, fabric, and decaying plants.