house cricket
noun
: a widely distributed cricket (Acheta domesticus) usually living in or about dwellings
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The insects Brody and Tallichet rear, Acheta domesticus, or house crickets, are highly communal.
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Anna Kordunsky, The New Yorker, 28 May 2020
The main types of crickets include field crickets, which tend to sport darker coloring and a glossier body, and house crickets, which are lighter in color and usually have dark stripes or bands across the backs of their heads.
—Natalie Schumann, Country Living, 25 Feb. 2020
The pinky-sized camel cricket dwarfs the common house cricket, which is noisy and black.
—Madeline Bodin, Discover Magazine, 12 Sep. 2014
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Anna Kordunsky, The New Yorker, 28 May 2020
The main types of crickets include field crickets, which tend to sport darker coloring and a glossier body, and house crickets, which are lighter in color and usually have dark stripes or bands across the backs of their heads.
—Natalie Schumann, Country Living, 25 Feb. 2020
The pinky-sized camel cricket dwarfs the common house cricket, which is noisy and black.
—Madeline Bodin, Discover Magazine, 12 Sep. 2014
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“House cricket.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/house%20cricket. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.
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