Snowy tree cricket
Oecanthus fultoni
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Snowy tree crickets make slits and lay eggs in small twigs of various plants during fall, creating weakened areas that may split or break. The delicate, pale green crickets produce their characteristic loud chirping sound on warm evenings. Egg-laying damage appears as a line of punctures along the twig length.
The aesthetic damage from egg-laying is minor on established plants. Broken twigs from egg-laying rarely require intervention. Prune badly split twigs if desired. These crickets provide natural pest control through predation. Accept twig damage as supporting beneficial wildlife.
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These insects are frail, light green to whitish crickets 12-20 mm in length. The snowy tree cricket is a generalist and feeds on foliage of many different plant species. They cause damage to canes primarily through its ovipositional activities of drilling small holes in the cane for depositing eggs. Canes may break at the ovipositional punctures sites and additional injury may take place if disease organisms enter the cane through the egg punctures. However, the snowy tree cricket is not a...
Cultural Controls
- -cultural control: Caneberry fields most likely to be infested are those with large amounts of weeds, neglected fence rows, or surrounded by natural areas, which all provide food and shelter for the crickets.
- Good weed management helps mitigate a potential cricket problem.
- Management-