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Gryllus sp., cricket head views

Watercolour and ink by J. Hayes, from Drawings of insects from Bengal and other parts of India. Thomas Hardwicke Collection; 1820 Date: 1820

© Mary Evans / Natural History Museum

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An ant-living cricket (Myrmecophila sapporensis)

An ant-living cricket (Myrmecophila sapporensis) in a nest of Japanese ants (Lasius japonicus) that lives its whole life in the ants nest. Because it no longer stridulates it has no hearing organs; because it lives in one place it has no wings; it is very small. Japan

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Leaf mimic bush cricket or katydid (unknown species, family Tettigoniidae)

Leaf mimic bush cricket or katydid (unknown species, family Tettigoniidae) in the middle of moulting its skin. Moulting from one sub-adult stage (instar) to another is known as ecdysis. Montane rainforest, Bosque de Paz Lodge, Caribbean slope, Costa Rica

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