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  • 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.]