Have you seen a strange looking insect that looks like a cricket with heavy armor? This is a mole cricket. The mole cricket is a member of the insect order Orthoptera, which is the same as crickets ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Dear Roger: Mole crickets are destroying my lawn. They are feeding in huge numbers. How do I get rid of them? -Joe Ortiz, Fayetteville Dear Joe: Robins, thrushes, mockingbirds and other insect-eating ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...