Mole Cricket

[chooz]

Mole Cricket

About 2-3 cm long, spend most of its life underground, hence the small eyes and strong front legs.

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[bahnoo]

nice mole cricket.. been trying to locate this little guy.. only manage to see it in Thailand..

[chooz]

nice mole cricket.. been trying to locate this little guy.. only manage to see it in Thailand..

Yup. These guys are elusive.

My son found this for me while he was playing at the Jurong Lake Park outside of the Japanese Garden.

There is another smaller type, about 0.5 cm, all black, that can be seen at the sandy children playground. Will post it when I am free tonight.

[chooz]

Pygmy Mole Cricket (correct me if I am wrong).
~0.5 cm body length.

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[melvynyeo]

Nice find! Never see one before!

[bahnoo]

woo the black one nice.. same here never see b4

[Jedi R]

Unique catch...

[redlavita]

nice series!

[chooz]

Thanks for appreciating it.

The black pygmy sand crickets are actually pretty abundant. Can see them at the children sandy playground. Just that they are really small, and hopping around in high speed. My lens basically dug into the sands to get a shot of these guys.

[B-setting]

nice series. thnks for sharing..