Mole cricket
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| Gryllotalpa brachyptera | |
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| Family: | Gryllotalpidae Saussure, 1870
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| distribution Gryllotalpidae | |
The mole crickets are the family Gryllotalpidae, of broad insects about 3–5 cm (1-2 inches) long, with large eyes and shovel-like forelimbs for burrowing and swimming.
Mole crickets are omnivores or meat eaters, feeding on larvae, worms, roots, and grasses. Common predators of mole crickets include birds, rats, skunks, armadillos, raccoons and foxes.
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Tawny Mole Cricket - Scapteriscus vicinus - Male - Dunedin, FL, USA
Mole Cricket (Gryllotalpa africana) (16643378886)
Pygmy mole crickets are members of the suborder Caelifera.
Lifecycle of the [European] mole cricket, from Richard Lydekker's Royal Natural History, 1879
Fossorial front leg of a Gryllotalpa mole cricket
Song of Gryllotalpa gryllotalpa
Male mole cricket in singing position in burrow: The burrow is shaped as a double exponential horn with bulb, forming an effective resonator.[a]
The parasitoidal wasp Larra bicolor was introduced to Florida to help control Neoscapteriscus mole crickets there.
Mole cricket in a copper engraving by Wolf Helmhardt von Hohberg, 1695
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