Mole cricket

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Mole crickets are fossorial insects belonging to the order Othoptera and family Gryllotalpidae, spending most of the life underground. [1] Mole crickets encompass seven genera and contain about 100 species worldwide. [2] Their specialized forelegs allow them to dig and construct burrows in the soil. Their burrows are carefully constructed. [1]

Mole Cricket [3] Taxonomy [4]
Mole Cricket
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Arthropoda
Class Insecta
Order Orthoptera
Family Gryllotalpidae

Habitat

Diet & Behavior

Life Cycle

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Endo, Chihiro. “The Underground Life of the Oriental Mole Cricket: An Analysis of Burrow Morphology.” Journal of Zoology 273, no. 4 (2007): 414–20. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7998.2007.00345.x.
  2. Ingrisch, Sigfrid, and D.C.F. Rentz. “Orthoptera: Grasshoppers, Locusts, Katydids, Crickets.” Essay. In Encyclopedia of Insects, Seconded., 732–43. Academic Press, 2009.
  3. “Mole Cricket Control in Lawns and Turf.” ngturf.com, April 2022. https://ngturf.com/mole-cricket-control-in-lawns-and-turf/.
  4. “Gryllotalpidae.” itis.gov, n.d. https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=102369#null.