The mole cricket is a large, brown insect that typically ranges from 1 to 1¾ inches long. The mole cricket’s long forelegs are its most distinctive physical trait.

Adult mole crickets overwinter in their underground tunnels, emerging to mate in the spring. Males die after mating, while females dig deep into the soil to lay up to 150 eggs before dying themselves.

Signs of mole cricket activity include raised lumps in your lawn and dead or dying brown patches of grass. Pouring soapy water over suspicious patches will cause the crickets to come to the ...

Mole crickets are a major pest of lawns and gardens. Here's what to know about the insects digging up your turfgrass, and how to keep them under control. How to Get Rid of Mole Crickets This ...

The transition to spring has brought warmer temperatures and above-normal rainfall, signaling the beginning of the growing season. Recent assessments during USGA Course Consulting Service visits ...

Mole cricket infestations are marked by tunneling that raises soil and grass, alongside brown, dying grass from their feeding. In spring, their mating season, they create small soil mounds with ...

There is an easy way to diagnose whether mole crickets are the cause of your turf or garden plants’ poor performance. In your lawn or garden, mark off a 2-foot-by-2-foot square in the soil.

Mole crickets are brown in colour and much stockier than black crickets. They’re easily identifiable by their shovel-like fore legs which have been described as looking like hands.

Southern mole crickets are established east of a line from Corpus Christi to San Antonio to Fort Worth, and south of I-20 in most of East Texas.

Guy Beugnon, Orientation of Southern Mole Cricket, Scapteriscus acletus, Landing at a Sound Source, The Florida Entomologist, Vol. 64, No. 4 (Dec., 1981), pp. 463-468 ...

If you see a lot of crickets at your home, they might be attracted to some features of your property. Seeing more crickets than usual? Here are some reasons why ...