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prairie mole cricket
Gryllotalpa major
Gryllotalpa major is a prairie mole cricket of the family Gryllotalpidae. It is endemic to the United States and is the largest cricket in North America. Its natural habitat is temperate grassland. It is threatened by habitat loss and is currently only found in Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri and Arkansas. Males of this species produce sounds by rubbing their forewings together. They sing from special burrows they construct in the prairie soil to attract females for mating,...
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 101830.