A common little insect around here these days is the Red-headed Bush Cricket, also called the Handsome Trig and a few other names. In Latin it's PHYLLOPALPUS PULCHELLUS.
At first, with its rusty head and thorax, and golden legs, I didn't even recognize this handsome little critter as a cricket because it is so unlike the much larger, totally black field crickets with which I'm more familiar.
This dude above was walking down our kitchen wall. Must have come inside on the plants we brought in prior to Irene's arrival. He's been singing too, which I enjoy but others not so much.
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