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Brown Weird bug (Mole Cricket)

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Mole Cricket
by: Moni

Glenn
Yes, as everyone has suggested this is a mole cricket. It is probably the Northern mole cricket, tho the photo is not quite clear enough to tell.
Mole crickets can be found thru out most of the eastern North America, then south into South America.
They are usually found in moist areas near streams and ponds, but also in gardens and agricultural fields. The adults do come to lights at night, so perhaps that is how it got in the grocery store?
This insect is a herbivore...they feed on plant roots. It takes two years to complete a generation in most of N America. The males do have a call they make to attract females to their burrows, then the female lays her eggs and then guards them thru the second or third stage of life.
Some mole crickets can be pests of turf due to their tunneling..
weird bug
by: MydMo

Mole cricket is good choice, I used to dig them up next to a small pond.
Kentucky
by: Rich

My wife and I have been searching google earth to find a good BASS fishing area so we may move there, but that bug scares the bajeebas out of me.
mole cricket
by: Anonymous

looks like a mole cricket
Weird Bug at the Grocery
by: Anonymous

I have to say that I don't know what this bug is, but it looks like an earwig on Steroids! That's one scary insect.

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