located male calling crickets by sound and made them into live incubators for their eggs. The parasitic larvae would hatch and eat their cricket hosts from the inside out. Twelve years and 20 ...

Crickets are parasites—for some ant colonies. The species of ant crickets from the Myrmecophilus genus can infiltrate ant colonies, despite the potentially lethal defences that ants have ...

Credit: Communications Biology (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s42003-024-07368-y The researchers concluded that crickets employ dodging behavior to methodically evade perceived threats under low-risk ...