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单词 mole cricket
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Definition of mole cricket in English:

mole cricket

noun
  • A large burrowing nocturnal cricket-like insect with broad forelegs, the female of which lays her eggs in an underground nest and guards the young. Very rare in Britain, it can be a pest in some other areas.

    Family Gryllotalpidae: several genera

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Earwigs are amazing, under-appreciated insects that can devouring mole crickets and eat up to fifty chinch bugs a night!
    • The prairie mole cricket, Gryllotalpa major, is the largest North American cricket.
    • Other animals and plants such as the mole cricket and marsh gentian, which are suited to wetter heaths, may suffer as their habitat dries out in the summer.
    • We've had weed pressure and insects especially mole crickets on the course all summer that got washed in with the silt and infested areas covered by the flooding.
    • The loam of the junkyard was rich and fertile, streaming with healthy earthworms, mole crickets, and warty toads camouflaged against the ground.
 
 

Definition of mole cricket in US English:

mole cricket

nounmōl ˈkrikit
  • A large burrowing nocturnal cricket with broad forelegs, the female of which lays her eggs in an underground nest and guards the young.

    Family Gryllotalpidae, subfamily Gryllotalpinae: several genera

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Other animals and plants such as the mole cricket and marsh gentian, which are suited to wetter heaths, may suffer as their habitat dries out in the summer.
    • The prairie mole cricket, Gryllotalpa major, is the largest North American cricket.
    • The loam of the junkyard was rich and fertile, streaming with healthy earthworms, mole crickets, and warty toads camouflaged against the ground.
    • We've had weed pressure and insects especially mole crickets on the course all summer that got washed in with the silt and infested areas covered by the flooding.
    • Earwigs are amazing, under-appreciated insects that can devouring mole crickets and eat up to fifty chinch bugs a night!
 
 
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