Have you seen a strange looking insect that looks like a cricket with heavy armor? This is a mole cricket. The mole cricket is a member of the insect order Orthoptera, which is the same as crickets ...

If you don't want to welcome predators that can harm your yard, you can introduce certain wasps or nematodes for biocontrol. If you see more than two to four mole crickets per 2-square-foot radius, it ...

Dear Roger: Mole crickets are destroying my lawn. They are feeding in huge numbers. How do I get rid of them? -Joe Ortiz, Fayetteville Dear Joe: Robins, thrushes, mockingbirds and other insect-eating ...

If you think you’d know a cricket by the chirp it makes, you’d never figure out a mole cricket was nearby. These crickets make a noise that sounds like a “guttural growl,” said my trusty Audubon field ...

Pygmy mole crickets are skilled jumpers on land and amazingly on water, too. New research shows how their back legs act like spring-loaded paddles to propel them from the surface of a pond. Researcher ...

Mole crickets are common in suburbia but rarely seen They chirp loudly and have shovel-like front limbs for burrowing They are present in many parts of the world Startled Wynn Vale resident Pauline ...

Mole crickets, chinch bugs and spittlebugs are a few insects to watch for in North Florida Lawns. Even though mole crickets may injure any of the lawn grasses we grow in Florida, bermuda, bahia and ...

When Malcolm Burrows first heard the sound of a pygmy mole cricket leaping from water, he was enjoying a sandwich. Burrows, a zoologist from the University of Cambridge, was visiting Cape Town and had ...