MOLE CRICKETS northern mole cricket, Neocurtilla hexadactyla (Perty) and the southern mole cricket, Scapteriscus acletus (Rehn and Hebard)
Description	Picture	Damage
mole crickets are about 1 1/2 inches long golden to chocolate brown and covered with fine velvety hairs strong, heavily sclerotized front legs are adapted for digging make small winding borrows of loosened soil on the surface	Photo credit: Extension Entomology, Department of Entomology, Texas A&M University	almost all vegetable crops may be damaged by these pests feed at or slightly below the soil surface on roots, tubers and stems also attack strawberries and other fruit which contacts the soil

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Last modified: March 31, 1998