Mole cricket

Mole cricket
Temporal range: Lower Cretaceous–recent 140–0 Ma
Gryllotalpa brachyptera
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Ensifera
Superfamily: Grylloidea
Family: Gryllotalpidae
Saussure, 1870
Distribution of Gryllotalpa, Scapteriscus, Neocurtilla

Mole crickets are members of the insect family Gryllotalpidae, in the order Orthoptera (grasshoppers, locusts and crickets). Mole crickets are cylindrical-bodied insects about 3–5 centimetres (1.2–2.0 in) long, with small eyes and shovel-like forelimbs highly developed for burrowing. They are present in many parts of the world and where they have been introduced into new regions, may become agricultural pests.

Mole crickets have three life stages, eggs, nymphs and adults. Most of their life in these stages are 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 predacious. Male mole crickets have an exceptionally loud song; they sing from a sub-surface 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.

Description

Mole crickets vary in size and appearance, but most of them are of moderate size for an insect, typically between 3.2 and 3.5 cm (1.3 and 1.4 in) long as adults. They are adapted for underground life and are cylindrical in shape and covered with fine, dense hairs. The head, forelimbs, and prothorax are heavily sclerotinised but the abdomen is rather soft.[1] The head bears two threadlike antennae and a pair of beady eyes.[2] The two pairs of wings are folded flat over the abdomen; in most species, the fore wings are short and rounded and the hind wings are membranous and reach or exceed the tip of the abdomen; however, in some species the hind wings are reduced in size and the insect is unable to fly. The fore legs are flattened for digging but the hind legs are shaped somewhat like the legs of a true cricket; however, these limbs are more adapted for pushing soil, rather than leaping, which they do rarely and poorly. The nymphs resemble the adults apart from the absence of wings and genitalia; the wingpads become larger after each successive moult.[3]

Taxonomy and phylogeny

The Gryllotalpidae are a monophyletic group in the order Orthoptera (grasshoppers, locusts and crickets). Cladistic analysis of mole cricket morphology in 2015 identifies six tribes, of which four were then new: Indioscaptorini (Scapteriscinae), Triamescaptorini, Gryllotalpellini and Neocurtillini (Gryllotalpinae), and two existing tribes, Scapteriscini and Gryllotalpini, are revised.[4] The group name is derived straightforwardly from Latin 'gryllus', cricket, and 'talpa', mole.[5]

Mole cricket groups
Subfamily Image Example Notes
Scapteriscinae Scapteriscus vicinus Extant
Gryllotalpinae Gryllotalpa africana Extant
Marchandiinae† Lower Cretaceous of France

Within these subfamilies, there are some known genera:[6]

Mole cricket fossils are rare. A stem group fossil, Cratotetraspinus, is known from the Lower Cretaceous of Brazil.[7] Two specimens of Marchandia magnifica in amber have been found in the Lower Cretaceous of Charente-Maritime in France.[8] They are somewhat more abundant in the Tertiary amber of the Baltic and Dominican regions; impressions are found in Europe and the American Green River Formation.[9]

Pygmy mole crickets are members of the grasshopper suborder Caelifera.

Mole crickets are not closely related to the "pygmy mole crickets", the Tridactyloidea, which are in the grasshopper suborder Caelifera rather than the cricket suborder Ensifera. The two groups, and indeed their resemblance in form to the mammalian mole family Talpidae with their powerful front limbs, form an example of convergent evolution, both developing adaptations for burrowing.[10]

Behavior

Adults of most species of mole cricket can fly powerfully, if not with agility, but males do so infrequently. The females typically take wing soon after sunset, and are attracted to areas where males are calling, which they do for about an hour after sunset. This may be in order to mate, or they may be influenced by the suitability of the habitat for egg-laying, as demonstrated by the number of males present and calling in the vicinity.[1]

Life cycle

Life cycle of the [European] mole cricket, from Richard Lydekker's Royal Natural History, 1879

Mole crickets are hemimetabolous meaning they undergo incomplete metamorphosis; when nymphs nymphs hatch from eggs, the nymphs increasingly resemble the adult form as they grow and pass through a series of up to ten moults. After mating, there may be a period of one or two weeks before the female starts laying eggs. She burrows into the soil to a depth of 30 cm (12 in), (72 cm (28 in) has been seen in the laboratory), and lays a clutch of 25 to 60 eggs. Neoscapteriscus females then retire, sealing the entrance passage, but in Gryllotalpa and Neocurtilla species, the female has been observed to remain in an adjoining chamber to tend the clutch. Further clutches may follow over several months, according to species. Eggs need to be laid in moist ground and many nymphs die because of insufficient moisture in the soil. The eggs hatch in a few weeks, and as they grow, the nymphs consume a great deal of plant material either underground or on the surface. The adults of some species of mole cricket may move as far as 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) during the breeding season. Mole crickets are active most of the year, but overwinter as nymphs or adults in cooler climates, resuming activity in the spring.[1]

Burrowing

Fossorial front leg of a Gryllotalpa mole cricket

Mole crickets live almost entirely below ground, digging tunnels of different kinds for the major functions of life, including feeding, escape from predators, attracting a mate (by singing), mating, and raising of young.[11]

Their main tunnels are used for feeding and for escape: they can dig themselves underground very rapidly, and can move along existing tunnels at high speed both forwards and backwards. Their digging technique is to force the soil to either side with their powerful, shovel-like forelimbs, which are broad, flattened, toothed and heavily sclerotised (the cuticle is hardened and darkened).[11]

Males attract mates by constructing specially-shaped tunnels in which they sing.[11] Mating takes place in the male's burrow; the male may widen a tunnel to make room for the female to mount, though in some species mating is tail-to-tail.[11] Females lay their eggs either in their normal burrows or in specially-dug brood chambers which are sealed when complete in the case of the genus Neoscapteriscus[11] or not sealed in the case of genera Gryllotalpa and Neocurtilla.

Song

Song of Gryllotalpa gryllotalpa
Male mole cricket in singing position in burrow. The burrow is shaped as a double exponential horn with bulb, forming an effective resonator.[lower-alpha 1]

Male mole crickets sing by stridulating, always underground.[12] The song is based on an almost pure tone at 3.5 kiloHertz, loud enough to make the ground vibrate 20 cm all round the burrow. In Gryllotalpa gryllotalpa the burrow is somewhat roughly sculpted; in Gryllotalpa vineae, the burrow is smooth and carefully shaped, with no irregularities larger than 1 millimetre. In both species the burrow takes the form of a double exponential horn with twin openings at the soil surface; at the other end there is a constriction, then a resonating bulb, and then an escape tunnel. A burrow is used for at least a week. The male positions himself head down with his head in the bulb, his tail near the fork in the tunnel.[12][14]

Mole crickets stridulate like other crickets by scraping the rear edge of the left forewing, which forms a plectrum, against the lower surface of the right forewing, which has a ratchet-like series of asymmetric teeth: the more acute edges face backwards, as do those of the plectrum. The plectrum can move forwards with little resistance; but moving it backwards makes it catch each tooth, setting up a vibration in both wings. The sound-producing stroke is the raising (levation) of the wings. The resulting song resembles the result of modulating a pure tone with a 66 Hertz wave to form regular chirps. In G. vineae, the wing levator muscle, which weighs 50 milligrams, can deliver 3.5 milliWatts of mechanical power; G. gryllotalpa can deliver about 1 milliWatt. G. vineae produces an exceptionally loud song from half an hour after sunset, continuing for an hour; it can be heard up to 600 metres away. At a distance of 1 metre from the burrow, the sound has a mean power over the stridulation cycle of up to 88 decibels; the loudest recorded peak power was about 92 decibels; at the mouths of the burrow, the sound reaches around 115 decibels. G. gryllotalpa can deliver a peak sound pressure of 72 decibels and a mean of about 66 decibels. The throat of the horn appears to be tuned (offering low inductive reactance), making the burrow radiate sound efficiently; the efficiency increases when the burrow is wet and absorbs less sound. Mole crickets are the only insects that construct a sound-producing apparatus. Given the known sensitivity of a cricket's hearing (60 decibels), a night-flying G. vineae female should be able to detect the male's song at a range of 30 metres; this compares to about 5 metres for a typical Gryllus cricket that does not construct a burrow.[12]

The loudness of the song is correlated with the size of the male and the quality of the habitat, both indicators of male attractiveness. The loudest males may attract 20 females in one evening, when a quieter male may attract none. This behaviour enables acoustic trapping: females can be trapped in large numbers by broadcasting a male's song very loudly.[15][16]

Food

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.[17][18] As well as consuming roots underground, mole crickets leave their burrows at night to forage for leaves and stems which they drag underground before consumption.[3]

They have been reported to attack many kinds of cultivated plants, depending upon mole cricket species and location. The level of perceived damage to pasture or turf-grasses or to other cultivated plants, causes them to be labelled as pests, major or minor. Various control methods, physical, chemical, or biological, have been used against the major pests.

Below is an account of biological control projects targeting some of the major pests, usually when other control methods had failed, and especially against invasive mole cricket species.

Predators, parasites and pathogens

Besides birds, toads and insectivorous mammals, the predators of mole crickets include subterranean assassin bugs, wolf spiders, and various beetles.[19] The South American nematode Steinernema scapterisci kills Neocapteriscus mole crickets by introducing bacteria into their bodies, causing an overwhelming infection.[20] Steinernema neocurtillae is native to Florida and attacks native Neocurtilla hexadactyla mole crickets.[21] Parasitoid wasps of the genus Larra (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae) attack mole crickets, the female laying an egg on the external surface of the mole cricket, and the larva developing externally on the mole cricket host. Ormia depleta (Diptera: Tachinidae) is a specialized parasitoid of mole crickets in the genus Neoscapteriscus; the fly's larvae hatch from eggs inside her abdomen; she is attracted by the call of the male mole cricket and deposits a larva or more on any mole cricket individual with which she comes in contact.[22] Specialist predators of mole cricket eggs in China and Japan include the bombardier beetle Stenaptinus jessoensis whereas in South America they include the bombardier beetle Pheropsophus aequinoctialis (Coleoptera: Carabidae); the adult beetle lays eggs near the burrows of mole crickets, and the beetle larvae find their way to the egg chamber and eat the eggs.[23] Fungal diseases can devastate mole cricket populations during winters with sudden rises of temperature and thaws.[24] The fungus Beauveria bassiana can overwhelm adult mole crickets[25] and several other fungal, microsporidian and viral pathogens have been identified.[19] Mole crickets evade predators by living below ground, and vigorously burrowing if disturbed at the surface. As a last-ditch defence, they eject a foul-smelling brown liquid from their anal glands when captured;[26] they can also bite.[27]

Distribution

Mole crickets are relatively common, but because they are nocturnal and spend nearly all their lives underground in extensive tunnel systems, they are rarely seen. They inhabit agricultural fields and grassy areas. They are present in every continent with the exception of Antarctica; by 2014, one hundred and seven species had been described and more species are likely to be discovered, especially in Asia. Neoscapteriscus didactylus is a widespread pest species, originating in South America it has spread to the West Indies and New South Wales in Australia.[28] Gryllotalpa africana is a major pest in South Africa, and other Gryllotalpa species are widely distributed in Europe, Asia and Australia.[29] They are native to mainland Britain (as to western Europe) but the former population of G. gryllotalpa may now be extinct in Britain [30] although surviving in the Channel Islands.[31]

Adventive and invasive mole crickets, and their biological control

Adventive species are those that have somehow arrived in places other than their native range. Invasive species are those that cause harm in their newly occupied area. The latter are the usual targets of classical biological control.

The first-detected invasive mole cricket species was Neoscapteriscus didactylus, a South American species reported as a pest in St. Vincent, West Indies as early as 1837; by the end of that century, it was reported as a major pest of agriculture in Puerto Rico. The likelihood is that individuals had flown north, island by island from South America, over a long period of time; accounts for other islands in the Lesser Antilles and north as far as the Dominican Republic in the Greater Antilles accrued later.[28] The only biological control program against Neoscapteriscus didactylus was in Puerto Rico, and it succeeded in establishing the parasitoid wasp Larra bicolor from Amazonian Brazil. [32] The level of suppression of the pest mole cricket was not measured. In 2001, Scapteriscus didactylus in Puerto Rico seemed to be a pest only in irrigated crops and turf. Small scale experimental applications of the beneficial nematode Steinernema scapterisci were made in irrigated turf, but survival of the nematode seemed to be poorer, perhaps due to antagonists, in Puerto Rican loams and organic sands than in Florida’s sandy soils [33]

Very much later, this same species was reported as a pest in Queensland, Australia, presumably having been transported there as a hitchhiker aboard a ship or plane.[34]

The next-detected invasive mole cricket species occurred in the late 19th century reported in Hawaii as Gryllotalpa africana; it was not that species but probably was Gryllotalpa orientalis, and was presumably imported as a hitchhiker aboard a ship. It attacked sugarcane and was targeted by importation and release of the parasitoid wasp Larra polita from the Philippines in 1925, apparently successfully.[35]

The next detection was in Georgia, USA, and at that time was assumed to be Neoscapteriscus didactylus from the West Indies.[2] However, it was not that species. "It" was in fact three South American Neoscapteriscus species, N. abbreviatus, N . vicinus, and N. borellii, which for decades caused major problems as they spread in the southeastern USA, and all three are presumed to have arrived as hitchhikers in ship ballast.[36]Scapteriscus mole cricket populations had built up since the early decades of the 20th century and damaged pastures, lawns, playing fields and vegetable crops. From the late 1940s chordane had been the insecticide of choice to control them, but when chordane was banned by the U.S. EPA in the 1970s, ranchers were left with no economic and effective control method. Especially to aid Florida ranchers, a project that became known as the UF/IFAS Mole Cricket Research Program was initiated in 1978. In 1985, a multi-authored report was published on accomplishments.[37] In 1988, an account was published on prospects for biological control,[38] and in 1996 an account of promising results with biological control.[39] The program ended in 2004 after 25 years of running monitoring stations, and in 2006 a summary publication announced success: a 95% reduction in mole cricket numbers in northern Florida, with biological control agents spreading potentially to all parts of Florida.[40]

Efforts to use Larra bicolor as a biological control agent in Florida began with importation of a stock from Puerto Rico. Although it became established in a small area of southeastern Florida it had little effect on Neoscapteriscus mole cricket populations.[41] Next, stock was imported from Bolivia, became established in northern Florida and spread widely (with some help) to most of the rest of the state and across the northern border to neighboring states.[42] Its survival depends upon the availability of suitable nectar sources.[43] .[44]

Once it was discovered that gravid female Ormia depleta flies are attracted to the song of Neoscapteriscus mole cricket males in South America,[45] a path to trap these flies at synthetic mole cricket song was opened. Experimentation then led to a rearing method.[46] Laborious rearing of over 10,000 flies on mole cricket hosts allowed releases of living fly pupae at many sites in Florida from the far northwest to the far south, mainly on golf courses, and mainly in 1989-1991. Populations were established, began to spread, and were monitored by use of synthetic mole cricket song. Eventually it was discovered that the flies had a continuous population from about 29 degrees North all the way south to Miami, but that the flies failed to survive the winter north of about 29 degrees. Shipment and release of the flies to southeastern states north of Florida, was thus a wasted effort. As the flies had been imported from 23 degrees South in Brazil and could not overwinter north of 29 degrees North in Florida, a line of enquiry asked whether flies from 30 or 31 degrees South in Brazil might survive better in northern Florida. In 1999, the farthest south that flies could be obtained was 30 degrees; stock of these flies was imported to quarantine in Florida but the difference in their performance at cold temperatures was not significantly better than that of the original stock.

The third member of the trio of biological control agents to target Neoscapteriscus mole crickets in Florida was the South American entomopathogenic nematode Steinernema scapterisci. Its life cycle was researched in detail while it was reared on host mole crickets.[20] Small-scale releases proved it could persist for years in mole-cricket-infested sandy Florida soils. Its use as a biopesticide against Neoscapteriscus mole crickets was patented, making it attractive to industry. Industrial-scale production on artificial diet allowed large-scale trial applications in pastures [47] and on golf courses,[48] which succeeded in establishing populations in several counties, and these populations spread in newly-infected mole crickets. Sales as a biopesticide were disappointing, and the product was withdrawn from the market in 2014.

Not much later, in 1913, came detection of the European mole cricket, Gryllotalpa gryllotalpa, in the northeastern USA as a hitchhiker in potted plants imported aboard ships from western Europe. It is still present in New Jersey, New York, and Connecticut, but rarely causes pest problems. Curiously, it has been declared an endangered species in the United Kingdom, and may even be extinct there.

As pests

The parasitoidal wasp Larra bicolor, introduced to Florida to help control Neoscapteriscus mole crickets there

The main damage done by mole crickets is as a result of their burrowing activities. As they tunnel through the top few centimetres of soil they push the ground up in little ridges, increasing evaporation of surface moisture, disturbing germinating seeds and damaging the delicate young roots of seedlings.[2] They are also injurious to turf- and pasture-grasses as they feed on the roots of the grasses, leaving the plants prone to drying-out and damage by use.[3]

In their native lands, mole crickets have natural enemies that keep them under control.[49] This is not the case when they have been accidentally introduced to other parts of the world. In Florida they are considered pests and are described as "a serious problem". A University of Florida Entomology report suggests that South American Neoscapteriscus mole crickets may have entered the United States at Brunswick, Georgia in ship's ballast from southern South America around 1899, but were at that time mistakenly believed to be from the West Indies.[36] One possible remedy is biological pest control using the parasitoidal wasps Larra bicolor.[50] Another remedy that has been successfully applied is use of the parasitic nematode Steinernema scapterisci. When this is applied in strips across grassland, it spreads throughout the pasture within a few months and not only controls the mole crickets, but remains infective in the soil for future years.[35]

In human culture

Folklore

In Zambia, Gryllotalpa africana is held to bring good fortune to anyone who sees it.[51] In Latin America, Scapteriscus and Neocurtilla mole crickets are said to predict rain when they dig into the ground.[52] In Japan in the past they seem to have been associated with the worms/corpses/bugs that announce a persons sins to heaven in the Koshin/Koushin belief—see the spirit ghoul shokera/shoukera.

As food

Gryllotalpa mole crickets have sometimes been used as food in West Java and Vietnam.[53]

In the Philippines, they are served as a delicacy called Camaro in the province of Pampanga[54][55] and are a tourist attraction.[56][57] They are also served in parts of Northern Luzon.[53]

Notes

  1. ↑ Drawing based on Bennet-Clark, 1970[12] with public domain insect from Lydekker 1879.[13]

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