If you don't want to welcome predators that can harm your yard, you can introduce certain wasps or nematodes for biocontrol. If you see more than two to four mole crickets per 2-square-foot radius, it ...

I guess the mole crickets didn’t drown in the fall rains. Between having three stores (Possum’s Landscape and Pest Control Supply), regularly scouting around, and having a whole bunch of friends in ...

A recent Turf Advisory Service visit found small mounds of soil on a practice green that resembled ant hills at first glance. On further inspection, the mounds had small tunnels that extended into the ...

Mole crickets are a common pest of turf, vegetables and forages in Florida. These ground-dwelling insects tunnel through the landscape and feed voraciously on the roots of plants. Grasses are the ...

If you think you’d know a cricket by the chirp it makes, you’d never figure out a mole cricket was nearby. These crickets make a noise that sounds like a “guttural growl,” said my trusty Audubon field ...

This Week Outdoors: The fruit on raspberry, blackberry and wineberry vines is beginning to ripen. Q: Do you know what this is? I had a dead one in my pool a couple of years ago. This one was very much ...

Last November I wrote about mole crickets, and judging from the amount of damage to lawns I’m seeing, I need to write about them again. Between having three stores, regularly scouting around and ...

Mole crickets (Orthoptera: Gryllotalpidae) are among the most economically important turfgrass insect pests in the southeastern United States. The tawny mole cricket Scapteriscus vicinus (Scudder) ...

Researcher Malcolm Burrows was sitting next to a South African pond eating lunch one day when he heard an odd noise coming from the water. What he found surprised him: pygmy mole crickets hopping off ...

The calling song of G. major, the largest North American cricket, which survives only in relict tallgrass prairies, consists of prolonged series of brief chirps that can be heard from as far away as ...