Jerusalem Cricket vs. Dust Bunny

Sometimes crickets make their way into the basement. This one, a model that I’ve always known as a Jerusalem Cricket(*) evidently lost a pitched battle with one of the Dust Bunnies guarding the Basement Laboratory:

Jerusalem Cricket vs Dust Bunny - top view
Jerusalem Cricket vs Dust Bunny – top view

A rear view:

Jerusalem Cricket vs Dust Bunny - rear view
Jerusalem Cricket vs Dust Bunny – rear view

From the front:

Jerusalem Cricket vs Dust Bunny - front view
Jerusalem Cricket vs Dust Bunny – front view

I deported it to the flower garden outside the basement door, where I hope it can brush off the Bunny’s entrapments…

It may not be a Jerusalem Cricket, because they’re more common out west, but that’s the best match in our bug books and that’s what we’ve always called them.

[Update: (*) It’s most likely a Cave Cricket. See the comments for details.]

3 thoughts on “Jerusalem Cricket vs. Dust Bunny

  1. Folks around here seem to call ’em “cave crickets”. They’re common in basements, along with the more ordinary plain black ones.

    1. cave crickets

      That’s a much better match than “Jerusalem cricket”: we’ve been wrong all these decades!

      Thanks…

  2. We get camel crickets around here but I haven’t noticed any yet this year. According to Wikipedia, they are in the same family as cave crickets, but they are rather, um, translucent compared to the one you have pictured.

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