You’re just going about your business on your very own deserted island and suddenly you hear a buzzing sound. There’s nothing in sight so that means it could only be coming from below your feet.

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 ...

There is an extensive history of mole cricket integrated pest management (IPM) research in Florida, USA (Kerr et al. 2014; Mhina et al. 2016), much of which has incorporated acoustic trapping as a ...

We report on a novel method to disseminate an entomopathogenic nematode, Steinernema scapterisci Nguyen & Smart, planned to capitalize on the potential of the nematode as a classical, inoculative ...

Ah, summer nights and the soothing melodic sounds of crickets. Another sound is mixed into the melody. The song is almost pure tone, modulating into chirps. Could it be a southern mole cricket ...

Mole crickets are common in suburbia but rarely seen They chirp loudly and have shovel-like front limbs for burrowing They are present in many parts of the world Startled Wynn Vale resident Pauline ...

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 ...

Mole critics satisfy an insatiable appetite for tender grass roots and shoots by tunneling under turf, wreaking havoc on lawns across the southeastern U.S. each year. “Small tunnels appearing near the ...