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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 ...
Neoscapteriscus vicinus, commonly known as the tawny mole cricket, is a species of insect in the mole cricket family, Gryllotalpidae.This species is native to South America and also occurs in the Southern United States, where it arrived as a contaminant of ship's ballast around 1900.
Neoscapteriscus borellii, the southern mole cricket, is a species of insect in the family Gryllotalpidae. [ 2 ] [ 1 ] It is native to South America but is also present in the southern United States where it was introduced around 1900.
Most cave crickets have very large hind legs with "drumstick-shaped" femora and equally long, thin tibiae, and long, slender antennae. The antennae arise closely and next to each other on the head. They are brownish in color and rather humpbacked in appearance, always wingless, and up to 5 cm (2.0 in) long in body and 10 cm (3.9 in) for the legs.
The nematode Steinernema scapterisci kills the mole cricket by carrying bacteria into its body, introducing an overwhelming infection. [ 1 ] [ 11 ] The tachinid fly Ormia depleta is a parasitoid that leaves its carnivorous larva on the body of the mole cricket [ 12 ] [ 13 ] The crabronid wasp Larra bicolor (family Crabronidae ) catches the mole ...
Neocurtilla hexadactyla, commonly known as the northern mole cricket, is a species of mole cricket that is native to eastern North America. [2] [3] It also occurs in South America, where it may be an adventive species. [4] Its range extends from the southern reaches of eastern Canada and through the eastern and central United States. [4]
Mole crickets cause more damage to turf than do other insects in Florida. In 1988, it was reported that some forty million dollars was spent each year on mole cricket control in the state, the main species targeted being S. abbreviatus and S. vicinus. It was customary to use organophosphates to control them, but these have fallen out of favour ...
Neoscapteriscus abbreviatus (Scudder, S.H., 1869) (lesser short-winged mole cricket) Neoscapteriscus borellii (Giglio-Tos, 1894) (southern mole cricket) Neoscapteriscus cerberus (Rodríguez, F. & Heads, 2012) Neoscapteriscus costaricensis (Nickle, 2003) Neoscapteriscus didactyloides; Neoscapteriscus didactylus (changa mole cricket ...