Cricket Dissection
Sorry the head is at such a funny/macabre angle here. When the cricket is first opened up, the material that you see right on top all makes up the insect's digestive system. Towards the top is the crop, which is pretty full of the experimental diet we give the crickets. Below that are lobes of the cricket's foregut, midgut, and hindgut. Crickets, like other insects, don't have a separate system for excreting pee. Instead, the stuff that would normally be excreted in pee gets excreted back into the hindgut and comes out in the cricket's frass (fancy word for insect poop).
Cricket Dissection
Sorry the head is at such a funny/macabre angle here. When the cricket is first opened up, the material that you see right on top all makes up the insect's digestive system. Towards the top is the crop, which is pretty full of the experimental diet we give the crickets. Below that are lobes of the cricket's foregut, midgut, and hindgut. Crickets, like other insects, don't have a separate system for excreting pee. Instead, the stuff that would normally be excreted in pee gets excreted back into the hindgut and comes out in the cricket's frass (fancy word for insect poop).