Crickets reach reproductive between eight and twelve weeks after birth. Males mates by rubbing their wings together to a noise sometimes to as "chirping". "Chirping" usually at night. , this process is called stirdulation. Interestingly enough, the in which a cricket "chirps" is by the temperature outside. When it is warmer, crickets chirp faster. After the male mates with the female, the female will lay between 150 and 400 eggs in the ground or another soft . The eggs hatch in about two weeks. The Field Cricket will through 8-10 instars (periods of time between moltings) in its lifetime.