caddc526-9d70-4c06-9d9a-abb73836f609 English ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1) dataset dataset NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg Lancaster LA1 4AP UK info@eidc.ac.uk https://eidc.ac.uk/ EIDC website The Environmental Information Data Centre (EIDC) is the UK's national data centre for terrestrial and freshwater sciences. information pointOfContact 2025-11-13T16:20:49 UK GEMINI 2.3 WGS 84 Behavioural data on individual wild adult field crickets (Gryllus campestris) in a meadow in Northern Spain in May and June, 2022 2025-09-30 publication 2025-09-30 creation https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/caddc526-9d70-4c06-9d9a-abb73836f609 10.5285/caddc526-9d70-4c06-9d9a-abb73836f609 doi: Tregenza, T., Rodríguez-Muñoz, R. (2025). Behavioural data on individual wild adult field crickets (Gryllus campestris) in a meadow in Northern Spain in May and June, 2022. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/caddc526-9d70-4c06-9d9a-abb73836f609 We provide basic morphological and life history data (size, lifespan, emergence date) and behavioural data (number of matings, fights and burrow use) on a population of wild field crickets (Gryllus campestris) in a meadow in N. Spain, from May to June 2022. Crickets were individually tagged with a 2 letter code as they became adult so they could be recognised on the video recorded 24 hours a day using infra-red video cameras that monitored up to 140 burrows simultaneously. Video was watched manually by a single observer who recorded the traits listed above. Crickets were weighed using a 0.1mg accurate balance on the day of their emergence to adulthood. Their emergence was observed using the video cameras. Their lifespan was determined by observation of their being killed by a predator on the video camera, or because they disappeared from observation and were not seen subsequently. Matings, fights and burrows used were directly observed from the video. These data were acquired to assess behavioural thermoregulation in crickets in the wild and were collected by researchers at the University of Exeter. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/caddc526-9d70-4c06-9d9a-abb73836f609 Tom Tregenza University of Exeter t.tregenza@exeter.ac.uk pointOfContact Tregenza, T. University of Exeter t.tregenza@exeter.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4182-2222 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Rodríguez-Muñoz, R. University of Exeter r.rodriguez-munoz@exeter.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6067-845X ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author University of Exeter EMAIL NOT PROVIDED owner NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk custodian NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher behaviour insect GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3 2019-01-28 creation Animal behaviour Climate and climate change Gryllus campestris otherRestrictions no limitations otherRestrictions This resource is available under the terms of the Open Government Licence otherRestrictions If you reuse this data, you should cite: Tregenza, T., Rodríguez-Muñoz, R. (2025). Behavioural data on individual wild adult field crickets (Gryllus campestris) in a meadow in Northern Spain in May and June, 2022. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/caddc526-9d70-4c06-9d9a-abb73836f609 tin 10 English utf8 climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere environment biota 2022-05-01 2022-06-30 -6.686 -4.439 42.88 43.66 Comma-separated values (CSV) NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/caddc526-9d70-4c06-9d9a-abb73836f609 Download the data Download a copy of this data download https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/caddc526-9d70-4c06-9d9a-abb73836f609.zip Supporting information Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset information dataset dataset Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services 2010-12-08 To obtain the life history and behavioural data, we used adult crickets reared under seminatural conditions during their nymphal development. Rearing took place in plastic boxes kept in a meadow in North Spain until their emergence as adults, when they were weighed (0.01 g), tagged with an individual unique code and released in the same meadow. We observed their behaviour using 140 IR cameras monitoring their burrows 24/7. We recorded the video using dedicated software that allowed us to playback multiple cameras at once to watch it and record behavioural events associated to individual crickets and burrows.