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Mole Cricket

Gryllotalpa

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Field Notes

Description:

Teeny foreleg; so not a Northern Mole Cricket.
Perhaps it's a European Mole Cricket. They were imported to the US on ornamental plants in the early 1900s.

Notes:

It CHASED me down the street!
It was moving south - away from a small lake.
6:20pm

Reference Links:

Mole cricket, European mole cricket (Gryllotalpa gryllotalpa)

Species ID Suggestions

Mole cricket

Gryllotalpa

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Reza Hashemizadeh
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Comments (2)
Ingrid3
maybe some kind of mole cricket?
Photographed
PublishedNovember 2, 2013

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