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Mormon Cricket

Anabrus simplex

About

A large, flightless shield-backed katydid native to western North America. Despite its name it is not a true cricket but rather a katydid.

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Did You Know?

In 1848 a massive Mormon cricket outbreak threatened settler crops in Utah until flocks of California gulls arrived and devoured them, an event celebrated as the Miracle of the Gulls.