{"id":425,"date":"2006-02-24T12:01:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-24T19:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/fire\/2006\/02\/24\/cricket\/"},"modified":"2006-07-27T14:58:08","modified_gmt":"2006-07-27T21:58:08","slug":"cricket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2006\/02\/24\/cricket\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spotted this male <a href=\"http:\/\/ohioline.osu.edu\/hyg-fact\/2000\/2066.html\">Cricket (Family Gryllidae)<\/a> climbing a wall one evening last September.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/images\/firefly\/2006\/February\/cricket.jpg\" alt=\"Male Cricket (Family Gryllidae) excreting fluid (peeing)\" title=\"Male Cricket (Family Gryllidae) excreting fluid (peeing)\" width=\"350\" height=\"579\" class=\"post-photo\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I would love to <a href=\"http:\/\/buzz.ifas.ufl.edu\/cricklist.htm\">identify<\/a> the species because these are the crickets I most commonly see in my yard. I can tell that this one is a male because it lacks the females&#8217; stinger-like ovipositor at the end if the abdomen. Both male and female crickets have a pair of prominent cerci (sensory appendages) near the tip of the abdomen.<\/p>\n<p>I managed to capture this cricket excreting fluid (peeing). Since some of their food has a high water content, insects will need to excrete this excess fluid to maintain a proper balance of water and salt in the body. Their fluid levels are regulated by the homeostatic actions of <a href=\"http:\/\/entomology.unl.edu\/ent801\/mtubules.html\">diuretic and antidiuretic hormones<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spotted this male Cricket (Family Gryllidae) climbing a wall one evening last September. I would love to identify the species because these are the crickets I most commonly see in my yard. I can tell that this one is a male because it lacks the females&#8217; stinger-like ovipositor at the end if the abdomen&#8230;. <a href=\"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2006\/02\/24\/cricket\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More &rarr; <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona-invertebrates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}