Amazing Facts about Cricket | Gryllus Assimilis

Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Ensifera
Superfamily: Grylloidea
Family: Gryllidae

Gryllus assimilis

Amazing Facts about Cricket

1. Can hear using their legs; sound waves vibrate a thin membrane on the cricket's front legs.
2. They have a good vision and hearing.
3. Their compound eyes enable them to see in several directions simultaneously. These are said to foretell good luck.
4. They have very small wings and these lie across the back.
5. Along with time their legs have been developed to jump at great heights. The size varies from ½ to 1 inch. One of the species is smaller then ¼ inch.
6. The common house cricket is not bigger than the ½ inch range.
7. The field cricket is on an average 1 inch in length. The lifespan of a cricket is less than one year.

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Amazing Facts about Crab | Liocarcinus vernalis

Scientific classification

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Arthropoda

Subphylum: Crustacea

Class: Malacostraca

Order: Decapoda

Suborder: Pleocyemata

Infraorder: Brachyura

Liocarcinus vernalis

Amazing Facts about Crab

1. Has hairs on claws and other parts of the body to detect water current and vibration.
2. Many crabs have their eyes on the end of stalks.

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Amazing Facts about Cockroach | Periplaneta americana

Scientific classification

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Arthropoda

Class: Insecta

Subclass: Pterygota

Infraclass: Neoptera

Superorder: Dictyoptera

Order: Blattaria

Amazing Facts and Information about Cockroach

Can detect movement as small as 2,000 times the diameter of a hydrogen atom.

Cockroaches (or simply "roaches") are insects of the order Blattaria. The name derives from the Greek and Latin names for the insect.

There are about 4,500 species of cockroach, of which 30 species are associated with human habitations and about four species are well known as pests.

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