If you think you’d know a cricket by the chirp it makes, you’d never figure out a mole cricket was nearby. These crickets make a noise that sounds like a “guttural growl,” said my trusty Audubon field ...

There is an extensive history of mole cricket integrated pest management (IPM) research in Florida, USA (Kerr et al. 2014; Mhina et al. 2016), much of which has incorporated acoustic trapping as a ...

We report on a novel method to disseminate an entomopathogenic nematode, Steinernema scapterisci Nguyen & Smart, planned to capitalize on the potential of the nematode as a classical, inoculative ...

If you don't want to welcome predators that can harm your yard, you can introduce certain wasps or nematodes for biocontrol. If you see more than two to four mole crickets per 2-square-foot radius, it ...

Mole crickets are the most devastating insect pest in the Southeast, and recently warming soil temperatures and rainfall have led to an increase in adult activity. Control can be challenging but ...

Mole critics satisfy an insatiable appetite for tender grass roots and shoots by tunneling under turf, wreaking havoc on lawns across the southeastern U.S. each year. “Small tunnels appearing near the ...

When Malcolm Burrows first heard the sound of a pygmy mole cricket leaping from water, he was enjoying a sandwich. Burrows, a zoologist from the University of Cambridge, was visiting Cape Town and had ...