When my pet Redback Spider 'Bindi' and Praying Mantis mysteriously disappeared the giant Cockroach was seen as the villain in the spider tank. But in this final flush out I reveal the real monster bugs of the critter tank. In finding a family of Mole Crickets will explain how critters were just disappearing without a trace. The giant Cockroach was going to be the next one to vanish. Mole crickets have three life stages, eggs, nymphs, and adults. Most of their lives in these stages is spent underground, but adults have wings and disperse in the breeding season. They vary in their diet; some species are vegetarian, mainly feeding on roots; others are omnivores, including worms and grubs in their diet, while a few are largely predatory. Male mole crickets have an exceptionally loud song; they sing from a subsurface burrow that opens out into the air in the shape of an exponential horn. The song is an almost pure tone, modulated into chirps. It is used to attract females, either for mating, or for indicating favourable habitats for them to lay their eggs.
Mole crickets vary in their diets; some like the tawny mole cricket are herbivores, others are omnivores, feeding on larvae, worms, roots, and grasses, and others like the southern mole cricket are mainly predacious. They leave their burrows at night to forage for leaves and stems, which they drag underground before consumption, as well as consuming roots underground.
Again sorry about the video quality, my Canon XC10 is stuck in 'P' mode and that's explained in the other Redback Spider Bindi Vs Mantis video.
Video posted as educational, documentary, and scientific and forms part of my Redback Spider study series of videos.
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