Comments on: Anyone for Cricket? https://suffolkmoths.org.uk/blog/index.php/2016/09/09/anyone-for-cricket/ Topical information from the Suffolk Moth Group Tue, 25 Feb 2020 18:38:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Stuart Ling https://suffolkmoths.org.uk/blog/index.php/2016/09/09/anyone-for-cricket/#comment-2441 Stuart Ling Fri, 09 Sep 2016 19:06:48 +0000 http://suffolkmoths.org.uk/blog/?p=6545#comment-2441 Hi Keith,
I’ve come across quite a number of House Crickets over the years, but never to light. As you say they are most frequently encountered in heated buildings, although less commonly since the mid 20th century. I hear them chirping every now and then here in Ipswich, principally in the vicinity of the docks and I know Stuart Read encounters them regularly at the Purina pet food factory in Sudbury. Outdoors they require the constant heat from rubbish dumps and sewage farms to thrive but will survive away from these sites in warm summers. I found a colony in a bean field adjacent to the refuse site in Bramford some years ago. They were easy to hear chirping but disappeared in to cracks in the sun baked soil as soon as I got near. I suspect if you revisit on a sunny day you will at least hear them if they are present in any number. I’d be interested to hear how you get on.
On the moth front, nothing spectacular to report from my garden trap. On the migrant front, getting quite a few Silver Y and the ever present Diamond-backed Moth and also starting to pick up a few Rush Veneer and Rusty-dot Pearl but nothing more exciting as yet.

Stuart

]]> By: Neil https://suffolkmoths.org.uk/blog/index.php/2016/09/09/anyone-for-cricket/#comment-2439 Neil Fri, 09 Sep 2016 15:28:24 +0000 http://suffolkmoths.org.uk/blog/?p=6545#comment-2439 The only ‘wild’ one I’ve seen Keith was many years ago on the moth group’s first ever visit to Orfordness, when we found one in the accommodation block there. Off there tonight so may find another!

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