Mole crickets are members of the insect family Gryllotalpidae, in the order Orthoptera (grasshoppers, locusts, and crickets). Mole crickets are cylindrical-bodied, fossorial insects about 3–5 cm (1.2–2.0 in) long as adults, with small eyes and shovel-like fore limbs highly developed for burrowing. They are present in many parts of the world and where they have arrived in new regions, may become agricultural pests.
Mole crickets have three life stages: eggs, nymphs, and adults. Most of their lives in these stages are spent underground, but adults have wings and disperse in the breeding season. They vary in their diet: some species are herbivores, mainly feeding on roots; others are omnivores, including worms and grubs in their diet; and a few are largely predatory. Male mole crickets have an exceptionally loud song; they sing from a burrow that opens out into the air in the shape of an exponential horn. The song is an almost pure tone, modulated into chirps. It is used to attract females, either for mating, or for indicating favourable habitats for them to lay their eggs.
In Zambia, mole crickets are thought to bring good fortune, while in Latin America, they are said to predict rain. In Florida, where Neoscapteriscus mole crickets are not native, they are considered pests, and various biological controls have been used. Gryllotalpa species have been used as food in West Java, Vietnam, Thailand, Laos, and the Philippines.
Molecrickets are members of the insect family Gryllotalpidae, in the order Orthoptera (grasshoppers, locusts, and crickets). Molecrickets are cylindrical-bodied...
Neocurtilla hexadactyla, commonly known as the northern molecricket, is a species of molecricket that is native to eastern North America and Africa. It...
Gryllotalpa gryllotalpa, commonly known as the European molecricket, is widespread in Europe and has been introduced to the eastern United States. Its...
Operation MoleCricket 19 (Hebrew: מבצע ערצב-19, Mivtza ʻArtzav Tsha-Esreh) was a suppression of enemy air defenses (SEAD) campaign launched by the Israeli...
Neoscapteriscus borellii, the southern molecricket, is a species of insect in the family Gryllotalpidae. It is native to South America but is also present...
Neoscapteriscus vicinus, commonly known as the tawny molecricket, is a species of insect in the molecricket family, Gryllotalpidae. This species is native...
waves; thus the mole rat could not produce a vibrational signal at 10–20 Hz like the elephant. Some invertebrates e.g. prairie molecricket (Gryllotalpa...
Gryllotalpa orientalis is a species of molecricket in the family Gryllotalpidae, commonly known as the oriental molecricket. It is found in much of Asia and...
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Osiraq. On June 9, 1982, the Israeli Air Force carried out Operation MoleCricket 19, crippling Syrian air defences in Lebanon. On October 1, 1985, In...
ground-hoppers (Tetrigoidea) and pygmy molecrickets (Tridactyloidea). The latter should not be confused with the molecrickets (Gryllotalpidae), which belong...
Gryllotalpa is a genus of insects in the molecricket family Gryllotalpidae. The Orthoptera Species File lists a number species, including cryptic species...
The New Zealand molecricket (Triamescaptor aotea) is a wingless member of the molecricket family Gryllotalpidae. Endemic to New Zealand, it lives underground...
Neocurtilla is a genus of northern molecrickets in the family Gryllotalpidae. There are about seven described species in Neocurtilla, found primarily...
insects in the family Gryllotalpidae, the molecrickets. Members of the genus are called two-clawed molecrickets. They are native to South America. Some...
known as pygmy molecrickets but they are Caelifera and not members of the molecricket suborder Ensifera, unlike the true molecrickets, the Gryllotalpidae...
Gryllotalpa africana, also known as the African molecricket, is a relatively small molecricket species, native to Africa, but local populations exist...
The tympanum, or ear, is located in the front tibia in crickets, molecrickets, and bush crickets or katydids, and on the first abdominal segment in the...
such as aphids, whiteflies, thrips, leafhoppers, leafminers, sawflies, molecricket, white grubs, lacebugs, billbugs, beetles, mealybugs, and cockroaches...
However the mole lizard Bipes, unlike other amphisbaenians, retains robust digging forelimbs comparable to those of moles and molecrickets. Many fossorial...
Jerusalem crickets (or potato bugs) are a group of large, flightless insects in the genera Ammopelmatus and Stenopelmatus, together comprising the tribe...
native to Ireland, seven grasshoppers and three bush-crickets . A further species, the molecricket, is thought to be possibly extirpated, given only one...
Neoscapteriscus is a genus of two-clawed molecrickets in the family Gryllotalpidae. At least 23 described species are placed in Neoscapteriscus. Neoscapteriscus...
Gryllotalpa major,also known as the prairie molecricket, is endemic to the United States and is the largest cricket in North America. Its natural habitat is...
distribution. Common names for these insects include cave crickets, camel crickets, spider crickets (sometimes shortened to "criders" or "sprickets"), and...
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