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Home of the Database of Insects and their Food Plants © Roger Key Family   Gryllidae Sub Family   Description   crickets Background to Family   Most records relate to food provided in captivity. The house-cricket (Acheta domesticus) is broadly omnivorous; the field-cricket (Gryllus campestris) mainly feeds on grasses; and the wood-cricket (Nemobius sylvestris) uses leaf litter and perhaps associated fungi (source: Marshall & Haes 1988, Grasshoppers and Allied Insects of Great Britain and Ireland. Harley Books, Colchester.) There is no information for the Scaly-cricket (Pseudomogoplistes vicentae Gorochov, previously misidentified as its relative Pseudomogoplistes sqamiger Fischer).     No. taxa in DBIF   4 No. interactions   7 % interactions with British data   100% No. records   7 % taxa with British data   100% Notes   Data currently unassessed by a specialist for changes in nomenclature, new species to the British list, new interactions, errors in original sources, and misspellings.; ; Notes on Sources   Most recent source   1965 Below is a list of all sources for this family / sub-family contained within DBIF. Click on source name for a list of all records for this source.   Source   Ragge, D.R. (1965) Grasshoppers, Crickets and Cockroaches of the British Isles 1-299:143 Source   Ragge, D.R. (1965) Grasshoppers, Crickets and Cockroaches of the British Isles 1-299:132 Source   Ragge, D.R. (1965) Grasshoppers, Crickets and Cockroaches of the British Isles 1-299:138