#4034 · 🦗 bugs, crickets & other insects
Wood Cricket
🇳🇱 Boskrekel ·Nemobius sylvestris
🦗 Bugs, crickets & other insects 📍 in the Netherlands
9 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Piotr Naskrecki · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © André MIQUET · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Jakob Jilg · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © oldbilluk · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 5. © Matthieu Gauvain · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Gilles San Martin · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 7. © Pascal Dubois · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. © A Emmerson · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. © Fabian A. Boetzl · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Nemobius sylvestris , the wood cricket , is a flightless species of cricket in the family Gryllidae. It is native to Western Europe and North Africa but uncommon in Britain.
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 77 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 7,839 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc in 1792 (234 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Wood Cricket
- Nederlands
- Boskrekel
- scientific name
- Nemobius sylvestris
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Orthoptera
- family
- Trigonidiidae
- sightings in NL
- 77
- sightings in Europe
- 6,555
- sightings worldwide
- 7,839
- GBIF records in NL
- 16,963
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1792 by Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 362296, Wikidata Q386914, GBIF 1722903, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.