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Wood Cricket

Nemobius sylvestris

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) kavonkabae, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

28 photos

Study shows up to four per card, from different observers, so you learn the species rather than one picture. Heart the good ones and swap any you do not like.

Photos you add are credited to you, and you keep the copyright.

Easily confused with

Study checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.

Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 739, February 546, March 855, April 1,345, May 1,939, June 2,115, July 2,263, August 1,946, September 1,429, October 1,067, November 583, December 456.
United States15,336
Alaska15,282
France1,750
Germany903
Portugal383
Spain361
Île-de-France307
Occitanie286
Italy281
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes275

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Physical

  • ExoskeletonHas a hard external skeletonFrom its classification

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumArthropods · Arthropoda
ClassInsects · Insecta
OrderGrasshoppers, Crickets, and Katydids · Orthoptera
FamilyTrigs, Sword-tailed Crickets, and Ground Crickets · Trigonidiidae
GenusNemobius

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Wood Cricket with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.