#4063 · 🦗 bugs, crickets & other insects
European Field Cricket
🇳🇱 Veldkrekel ·Gryllus campestris
🦗 Bugs, crickets & other insects 📍 in the Netherlands
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what is it?
Gryllus campestris is one of many crickets known as field crickets. These flightless dark colored insects are comparatively large; the males range from 19 to 23 mm and the females from 17 to 22 mm.
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
- Spotted 51 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 21,944 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- European Field Cricket
- Nederlands
- Veldkrekel
- scientific name
- Gryllus campestris
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Orthoptera
- family
- Gryllidae
- sightings in NL
- 51
- sightings in Europe
- 18,203
- sightings worldwide
- 21,944
- GBIF records in NL
- 17,002
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
relatives· Gryllidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 71248, Wikidata Q727567, GBIF 1716462, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.