Wings and Things
An alien probe
Ovipositor
The ovipositor is the female crickets egg laying tool that is used to push the eggs into the substrate as she starts her egg laying process, Female house crickets can lay hundreds of eggs that will over winter some 20mm under ground, in spring they emerge looking like little adults without wings, they will moult 6 to 8 times before becoming adult crickets in 7-8 wks.
Glass: Mitutoyo 5x / Raynox DCR-150 TL
Images: 171 @ 10μm
An alien probe
Ovipositor
The ovipositor is the female crickets egg laying tool that is used to push the eggs into the substrate as she starts her egg laying process, Female house crickets can lay hundreds of eggs that will over winter some 20mm under ground, in spring they emerge looking like little adults without wings, they will moult 6 to 8 times before becoming adult crickets in 7-8 wks.
Glass: Mitutoyo 5x / Raynox DCR-150 TL
Images: 171 @ 10μm