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Mormon Cricket Hanging onto a blade of grass #182105243
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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. WikipediaScientific name: Anabrus simplexHigher classification: AnabrusPhylum: ArthropodaOrder: OrthopteraRank: SpeciesFamily: Tettigoniidae