Shrews

Shrews, like most cricket predators on this list, are found throughout the world and are well-known as fierce carnivores despite their size. They are quite different from their cousins, the mice, due to their small ears and eyes as well as their pointed snouts and sharp teeth.

A large portion of their diet consists of insect larvae and insects. These options include wasps, moths, grasshoppers, crickets, butterflies, beetles, and bees, as well as their larvae. There are some shrew species such as the southern short-tailed shrew that also consume ants. It is good to note that shrews require high amounts of food every day, and they can easily starve to death if they do not eat after every few hours due to their high metabolisms. Therefore, crickets provide a nutritionally-dense food source for them, and this is why they prefer eating them frequently.