The chirping of crickets is synonymous with summer. They belong outside and can sometimes be seen hiding in the lawn. Well, it is winter in South Africa now and this cricket decided to visit my kitchen:
Not fully in focus, alas, as it jumped as I pressed the button on my cell phone. Even this blurry look reveals the cylindrical body, round head, and the long antennae that makes up the typical appearance of a cricket. Those back legs look remarkably similar to the legs of a grasshopper.
Something Over Tea 
We get a cricket in our house every fall. Some say that a cricket in your house brings goood luck. 🙂
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I have read that too. For me, the main problem with a cricket in the house is the loud, close chirping that is bound to interfere with one’s peaceful sleep 🙂
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Our chalet is called Chalet Les Criquets and we certainly have quite a few crickets, but more grasshoppers, chirruping around in the summer. Thankfully the pitch of some is quite high so I don’t hear them. There are some advantages to getting older… 😊
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You are right about that! This cricket – I saw it on the kitchen shelf this morning – is quiet and rather docile 🙂
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Try sleeping with a cricket in your ceiling right above your bed!
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That is akin to torture!
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I guess it sought the warmth of your house. I do prefer insects outside though 😏
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It may be as the nights tend to be chilly now despite the mildness of the day temperatures.
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I love the sound of crickets chirping on summer nights. I guess this one wanted a warm spot out of the cold. 🙂
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Summer cricket chirps ‘belong’; I am not entirely pleased when they come indoors though.
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I had one in my living room last year – I never found it and finally its whistling song grew weaker and weaker (which mirrored my nerves as tine went on).
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Crickets can be annoying when indoors.
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Crickets here are a sign of falling coming…..they get in the garage and chirp up a storm.
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They must gather in the garage to find a warm place in which to over-winter. This one has been quiet – I must catch it and place it outside today 🙂
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You could keep it and read The Cricket on the Hearth! I’ve never read it but wondered what Dickens wrote about and the name?
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I removed the cricket today 🙂 In the story Dickens wrote, the chirping cricket acted as a kind of guardian angel for the family. You have reminded me to read it again sometime 🙂 🙂
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It sounds interesting….maybe I’ll read it too….it’s in a Dickens Anthology I own of his shorter books, of which the only one I’ve read is A Christmas Carol. I knew you would know!
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🙂
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At our home on the edge of the woods, we hear a chorus of crickets from late summer through autumn. Always sorry when the chorus is stopped by the cold.
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Their summer chorus is lovely to listen to 🙂
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I don’t think I’ve seen a cricket that looks like this one before – I wonder how many kinds of orthoptera (crickets, katydids, grasshoppers and locusts) we have in South Africa?
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According to the biodiversity site, we have 366 genera and 968 species of orthroptera native to southern Africa. This one is very common here.
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That is an incredible number – what a challenge it will be to try and see them all! I know there are people trying to do that with all our butterflies and dragonflies, and birds of course.
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There is enough in focus – especially to make the antennae identification point.
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You are kind, Derrick. Thank you 🙂
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