Common outdoors and sold in pet stores and fishing stores. Destructive to clothing, linens indoors. Eat a variety of foods insects, plants, stored foodstuffs. Eggs laid in soil in spring. Feed on roots of plants, especially grass and lawns, causing severe damage.
Adults remain in tunnels in soil except for spring mating activity.
Interior Exterior Subarea Attic Other Camel Cricket family Gryllacrididae Adults various shades of brown and very hump- backed in appearance. Females with long, sword- shaped ovipositor. An accidental visitor to structures, they occur under logs, rocks, loose bark, or other debris, or in hollow trees, etc. Occasionally common under structures. Inc. All rights reserved.