Mole Cricket

A mole cricket introduced to the lowland meadow caused widespread browning of the grass through extensive tunneling. At night, after a female field cricket partially entered his burrow and touched antennae with him, the mole cricket walled off his entrance using a ball of mud.

After three and a half years on the wish list, a Mole Cricket was finally added to the Lowland Meadow. It disappeared immediately into the compacted soil, so the next evidence will come indirectly through tunnels, root feeding, grass changes, or future additions.