5 Wood, Raspy or Leaf Rolling Cricket at Melba, ACT
Identification history
| Gryllacrididae (family) | 20 Dec 2024 | RogerF | ||
| Unverified | 19 Dec 2024 | kasiaaus |
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User's notes
I don't understand what was happening here. This cricket appeared trapped in a partially cut and webbed leaf. It was alive and making a cricket noise. I did not think it could get out but a while later it was gone.
2 comments
RogerF
wrote:
20 Dec 2024
This is its home! a leaf-rolling Gryllacridid. Great shot, keep it for next years photo competition! They all possess a femor-abdominal stridulatory mechanism, hence the common name raspy cricket (Dave Rentz), a ?defensive response.
kasiaaus
wrote:
20 Dec 2024
Wow. That's exciting. Thank you Roger. Do they build a new "home" every day?
Location information
- Coordinates 149.050293-35.208565
- Altitude 593.0m
- Places Melba, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 16 Dec 2024 11:09 PM Recorded on
- kasiaaus Recorded by
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Collections
kasiaaus Featured Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Gryllacrididae (family) Crickets (Orthoptera, several families) Grasshoppers, Crickets & Katydids (Orthoptera) Insects
Additional information
- 50mm or larger Animal size
Species information
- Gryllacrididae (family) Scientific name
- Wood, Raspy or Leaf Rolling Cricket Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1428.33m Recorded at altitude
- External link More information
Record quality
- Images or audio
- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location
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