#4140 · 🦗 bugs, crickets & other insects
Southern Field Cricket
🇳🇱 Zuidelijke veldkrekel ·Gryllus bimaculatus
🦗 Bugs, crickets & other insects 📍 in Europe, not in NL
📍 Garden Route Botanical Garden
📍 Levrnaka
📍 ул. МФЦ, д, МФЦ, Хучни, Респ. Дагестан, Россия, 368000
📍 Southsea, Portsmouth, UK
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Paolo Mazzei · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Martin Grimm · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Giacomo Gola · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Viral joshi · CC BY 4.0
- 5. © Rui Da Silva Pinto · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Rui Da Silva Pinto · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Garden Route Botanical Garden:© Colin Ralston · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Levrnaka:© lukapraprotnik · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. ул. МФЦ, д, МФЦ, Хучни, Респ. Дагестан, Россия, 368000:© Berserk Guts · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Southsea, Portsmouth, UK:© James Bailey · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Gryllus bimaculatus is one of many cricket species known as field crickets. Also known as the African or Mediterranean field cricket or as the two-spotted cricket , it can be discriminated from other Gryllus species by the two dot-like marks on the base of its wings.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 10,099 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Charles De Geer in 1773 (253 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Southern Field Cricket
- Nederlands
- Zuidelijke veldkrekel
- scientific name
- Gryllus bimaculatus
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Orthoptera
- family
- Gryllidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 4,844
- sightings worldwide
- 10,099
- GBIF records in NL
- 49
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1773 by Charles De Geer
relatives· Gryllidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 71247, Wikidata Q546382, GBIF 1713034, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.