Mole cricket

Ghana 1991England 1998Indonesia 2004
African Mole Cricket
Gryllotalpa africana
(Gryllotalpidae)
Mole Cricket
Gryllotalpa gryllotalpa
(Gryllotalpidae)
Mole Cricket
Gryllotalpa hirsuta
(Gryllotalpidae)


Mole Cricket
Gryllotalpa orientalis
(Gryllotalpidae)
(ORTHOPTERA)


With an insect, mole cricket also belongs to the same order as field cricket or a grasshopper. mole cricket is one of the animals which stop being in a field and are in the crisis of reduction and extinction recently. What drew mole cricket into the "animals-and-plants stamp which are on the verge of extinction" 6 kinds published from England in 1998 is contained. The forelimb of mole cricket is suitable for digging the ground thickly, digs a tunnel underground and goes to it. It cries "JIITSU" in spring and autumn. It is said that hears the cry of mole cricket the old man thought "earth worm cries."

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