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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids (Orthoptera) » Long-horned Orthoptera (Ensifera) » Crickets (Gryllidea) » Mole Crickets (Gryllotalpidae) » Northern Mole Crickets (Neocurtilla) » Northern Mole Cricket (Neocurtilla hexadactyla)
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Found in my basement. - Neocurtilla hexadactyla
Copyright © 2014 Lennie

Found in my basement. - Neocurtilla hexadactyla
Paw Paw, Van Buren County, Michigan, USA
July 22, 2014
Size: roughly 2"
We just moved into this house. It sits very close to a natural pond, and the surrounding area is regulated wetlands. This bug was crawling through my basement and I could HEAR it walk. When I caught it in the bowl, the clicking of the feet was much louder (I do realize it's because it was in a plastic bowl. lol I simply included that as a reference to it's size).
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Contributed by Lennie on 22 July, 2014 - 1:17pm
Last updated 21 June, 2017 - 9:41pm

a northern mole cricket, nice!
Moved from ID Request.
… metrioptera, 22 July, 2014 - 1:38pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks!
Thank you for identifying it for us! Should I assume that it will come back in shortly? (I tossed it outside amid the screams of my famiy.)

Thanks again!
… Lennie, 22 July, 2014 - 2:35pm login or register to post comments

 
probably not
They live in wet soil and feed on plant roots, so it probably just got into your basement by accident. You can read more about them here
… metrioptera, 22 July, 2014 - 2:48pm login or register to post comments

 
location data needs correction, pls edit
… v belov, 22 July, 2014 - 1:59pm login or register to post comments

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