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Essay Archive - Facts about Orthoptera
Facts about Orthoptera
Field crickets, the familiar black or brownish crickets are often
abundant in meadows and fields. Also in dwellings or in small clusters in the
ground. Tree Crickets are more often heard then seen. Usually colored green
these slender crickets live in shrubs and trees. Mole Crickets can burrow
rapidly through moist soil. They also can live in caves, hollow logs, beneath
stones, and other dark moist places. Grasshoppers are also part of this group.
They often become very abundant, and migrate in tremendous swarms. Destroying
nearly all plants in their path. Th....
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