Mormon Cricket Hanging onto a blade of grass
The Mormon cricket is a large insect that can grow to almost 8 cm in length. It lives throughout western North America in rangelands dominated by sagebrush and forbs. Despite its name, the Mormon cricket is actually a shieldbacked katydid, not a cricket. Wikipedia Scientific name: Anabrus simplex Higher classification: Anabrus Phylum: Arthropoda Order: Orthoptera Rank: Species Family: Tettigoniidae
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