How do you tell the difference between an oilskipper and a cricket? (Preferably with pictures of crickets and oilchucks)

One, the appearance is different

1, crickets: head round, chest wide, antennae slender. Each foot has 3 pairs of tarsal segments, the forefoot and midfoot are similar and the same length, and the hindfoot is developed. The body color is mostly dark brown, and the body is mostly barrel-shaped, with stout hind legs and filiform antennae that are longer than the body. There are two long tail filaments at the end of the abdomen and, in the case of females, an egg-laying tube that is longer than the tail filaments.

The body color is mostly dark brown, and the body is mostly barrel-shaped, with stout hind legs and filiform tentacles longer than the body. The end of the abdomen has two long tail filaments, if it is a female, there is a longer than the tail filaments of the egg-laying tube, distinguish between male and female there is also a trick, the wings have a clear concave-convex pattern of the male, the wing pattern of the female is flat and straight. The most special thing is that his hearer is on the front foot joint.

2, oil gourd: head black, spherical, face yellow-brown, from the back of the head, two antennae in the shape of "eight", antennal fossa around the black. The dorsal plate of the prothorax is blackish brown, with light-colored markings symmetrical from side to side, and the lower part of the lateral plate is light-colored. The dorsal surface of the forewings is brown and shiny, and the lateral surface is yellow. Caudal whiskers very long, capable of exceeding the femoral segments of the hind foot, long-winged and flying. The ovipositor flap of the female is flat and longer than the hindfoot femoral segment.

Dorsal plate of prothorax blackish brown with left-right symmetrical light-colored markings, lower half of lateral plates light-colored. Dorsal surface of forewing brown, shiny, lateral surface yellow. The caudal whiskers are very long, capable of exceeding the femoral segments of the hind legs, and the wings are long and flighty. The ovipositor flap of the female is flat and longer than the hindfoot femoral segment.

Two, different species

From a biological point of view to distinguish, although the oil gourd and crickets belong to the same cricket family, but it is a different genus, different species of the two organisms. Oil gourd belongs to the genus oil gourd, crickets belong to the genus cricket.

Three, the damage to different crops

Crickets are important agricultural pests, they destroy the roots, stems, leaves, fruits and seeds of various crops, the damage to seedlings is particularly serious, they are also harmful to corn, jute, tobacco, cotton, soybeans and cassava, often resulting in a lack of seedlings, affecting the harvest.

The oil gourd loves to eat a variety of greasy plants, such as peanuts, soybeans, sesame seeds and so on.

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