Greenhouse camel cricket, male

The United States underwent a camel cricket census conducted by researchers and citizen scientists associated with the Dunn Lab at North Carolina State University. Citizen scientists were asked to survey their homes for presence or absence of camel crickets and return photos and/or specimens to the lab for further research. The scientists were intrigued to find that the Japanese genus of camel crickets were reported much more commonly than the native North American camel crickets of the genus Ceuthophilus.