This interesting-looking insect is a wingless cricket native to Southeast Missouri. It is a cave cricket, but it is also known by names such as camel cricket, camel-back cricket and spider cricket.

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You don’t always have to go outdoors to observe nature. Sometimes it’s right in your cellar. There are species that sometimes live with us without being noticed, except as “bugs,” that are worth a ...

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Feeding experiments on captured camel crickets showed that around 80 percent of the seeds ingested and later excreted by camel crickets were fully viable and could germinate. Disclaimer: AAAS and ...

A Balanophora subcupularis inflorescence (a cluster of flowers) is visited by a camel cricket seeking the plant’s pollen and nectar. Similar to bee pollination, the cricket unwittingly transfers some ...