Love crickets or insects then I think you should read about this big guy. This is an animal you would love to read about, this animal is called Cnemotettix Bifasciatus. It's common name is the King Cricket. This cricket lives in South Africa, New Zealand, and Australia. The purpose of this essay is to write about this animal and for me to learn from it.

First, let's see how cool it looks! Their overall length is 20 cm, which is 8 inches! The color of this creature will amaze you. They can be light brown, dark brown, black, reddish, orangeish, and blue. They have armor and have stubby wings under their thorax, but they don't fly. When they rub their wings together rabidly it produces a rasping noise. Where the cricket lives needs to be a warm environment for it to survive. The look of this animal is quite cool.

Second, where does it live? It lives in New Zealand, South America, Australia, and South Africa in the alpines, forests, grasslands, shrub lands, and urban gardens. Their population is currently growing. It is almost an all around world animal! Cool right?

Third, well lets find out what is eats. The diet is diverse, rarely consisting of leaves, other insects, fungi, dead animals, and fruit. It can over power and eat a funnel-web spider. It may squirt smelly fluid if roughly handled and can bite an non-poisonous bite. They eat interesting foods and protect themselves well.

Lastly, to finish it off about the King Cricket. My animal is very important because it keeps the circle if life spinning. The most thing that stood out when I was writing this essay was how it protects it self by spitting out smelly liquid, awesome, and what it eats interesting things, I thing. As I end this essay I would like to say that the Cnemotettix Bifasciatus is a fascinating animal.

Author: Kristin D.
Published: 03/13

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