The wings lay flat along the back.
Nymphs look like the adults but are without wings.
It also sometimes damages vegetable transplants, tobacco, and various bedding plants. The southern mole cricket is a predator, but sometimes causes mechanical damage to tender young plants as it tunnels along just below the surface hunting for worms and other small soil organisms. Mole crickets have one generation per year. Eggs are laid in the spring, in cells in the ground. These hatch mostly in May and June.