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A large cricket crossed into the coastal marine side and used its ovipositor to lay eggs deep in the beach sand near a fiddler crab tunnel. The observation raised an open question about whether cricket eggs could hatch in the salty shoreline environment.

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Marine Shore Context

Corrected from Lowland Meadow; transcript says the cricket laid eggs in the salty coastal marine beach.

Fiddler crab tunnel is shoreline context, not the primary egg-laying subject.