Black-horned Tree Cricket

Oecanthus nigricornis · Order: Orthoptera · Family: Gryllidae

Also called: Blackhorned Tree Cricket

No source yet on danger. We have no source yet on whether it bites, stings or damages anything.
Black-horned Tree Cricket
Photo: Summit Metro Parks, CC BY

It lives in North America.

Source: Wikipedia

How to recognize it

A common name for Oecanthus nigricornis is black-horned tree cricket.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it lives

It is found in North America.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it comes from

It is found in North America.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it is found in the US

Recorded in 31 of 51 states and DC. Most records: New York, Ohio, Massachusetts, Vermont, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, New Jersey.

Darker = more records. Counts are museum and citizen-science records, not population size.

Source: GBIF

Status: native in North America; native in Canada. Source: iNaturalist

Months it is reported in the US

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Source: GBIF

More photos

Black-horned Tree Cricket photo 3
Photo: unknown, CC0
Black-horned Tree Cricket photo 4
Photo: Randy A Nonenmacher, CC BY
Black-horned Tree Cricket photo 5
Photo: Matt Pelikan, CC BY
Black-horned Tree Cricket photo 6
Photo: Jason Hill, CC BY

Same family (Gryllidae)

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Sources

  • Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oecanthus_nigricornis

Look it up elsewhere: GBIF · iNaturalist · BugGuide · ITIS · Wikipedia

Text written 2026-10-23 from the sources above and checked sentence by sentence against them. Data fetched 2026-10-22.

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