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Mole Cricket

Yesterday evening, a little after dark, I noticed something small crossing the street in front of me. It turns out, it was a mole cricket, the second time I’ve seen one on St. Martin. These crickets are nocturnal, and spend most of their time underground, so it isn’t so surprising that I don’t see them often. This one is a short-winged mole cricket, a South American species that probably came to the Caribbean in ship ballast or shipment of live plants. It is difficult to say when it arrived on St. Martin, but it has apparently been in Puerto Rico since about 1900.

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