Mole cricket
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.
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| Gryllotalpa brachyptera | |
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| Family: | Gryllotalpidae Saussure, 1870
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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.
Mole Cricket Media
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Tawny Mole Cricket - Scapteriscus vicinus - Male - Dunedin, FL, USA
- Mole Cricket (Gryllotalpa africana) (16643378886).jpg
Mole Cricket (Gryllotalpa africana) (16643378886)
- Pigmy Mole Cricket (Tridactylus sp.) (13977429463).jpg
Pygmy mole crickets are members of the suborder Caelifera.
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Lifecycle of the [European] mole cricket, from Richard Lydekker's Royal Natural History, 1879
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Fossorial front leg of a Gryllotalpa mole cricket
- 89912 Gryllotalpa gryllotalpa(112r9).wav
Song of Gryllotalpa gryllotalpa
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Male mole cricket in singing position in burrow: The burrow is shaped as a double exponential horn with bulb, forming an effective resonator.[a]
- Larra bicolor in Paynes Prairie, Florida.jpg
The parasitoidal wasp Larra bicolor was introduced to Florida to help control Neoscapteriscus mole crickets there.
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Mole cricket in a copper engraving by Wolf Helmhardt von Hohberg, 1695
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