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πŸ¦— Grasshoppers & Crickets

Raspy Cricket

Ametrus tibialis

About

A large nocturnal cricket with powerful mandibles and reddish-brown coloring. It shelters in silk-bound leaf nests during the day. Its common name comes from the rasping sound it makes when disturbed.

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Did You Know?

It constructs a new leaf-silk shelter each morning, cutting and folding a leaf then binding it with oral silk.