Ant cricket is a 2-star creature card from the Stone Age. Ant crickets are tiny wingless crickets that live inside ant nests.
Bonus by grade
| Grade | Copies needed | Bonus |
|---|---|---|
| Common | 0 | +8% Food cap |
| Uncommon | 2 | +14.4% Food cap |
| Rare | 5 | +24% Food cap |
| Epic | 10 | +36% Food cap |
| Legendary | 20 | +56% Food cap |
Duplicates raise the grade: Uncommon at 2, Rare at 5, Epic at 10, Legendary at 20.
Codex
- Common: Ant crickets (Myrmecophilus) are only a few millimetres long.
- Uncommon: They have no wings.
- Rare: They live inside ant nests.
- Epic: They beg food from ants and steal from their stores.
- Legendary: Each kind tends to live with particular ants.
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Field guide
| Size | Very small, flattened and wingless; exact size varies by species |
| Nest | Inside ant nests (the group is found worldwide) |
| Diet | Begs food from ants or scrapes wax from their bodies |
| Defence | Not well known |
| Active | Adults of one species are found all year round |
| Lifespan | One species takes up to two years to mature |
| Where it lives | Found worldwide; fewer than 100 species in a few genera |
Did you know?
- Ant crickets are rarely seen relatives of mole crickets.
- They are yellow, brown or nearly black, and have no wings or ears on their front legs.
- One species has been found living with eleven different kinds of ant.
Sources: en.wikipedia.org, en.wikipedia.org