What's the difference between
a cricket and a grasshopper?

What's the difference between grasshoppers and crickets?

• The main visual difference between a cricket and a grasshopper is the antennae. Crickets usually have long antennae while grasshopper antennae are usually much shorter.
  
  
• Grasshoppers can be seen during the day while crickets tend to come out when it gets dark and can be heard at night.
  
  
• Grasshoppers make a noise by riubbing their legs against their wings while crickets rub their legs together.
  
  
• Crickets and grasshoppers are related, both coming from the order Orthoptera.