I'm writing an article for the first time this year. The first photograph has no relation with this article.
I found an adult jerusalem cricket (Stenopelmatus fuscus?, also known as "potato bug") today. I don't know the origin of the name "Jerusalem cricket" but the species of genus Stenopelmatus is new world insect and native to western US and part of Mexico. However other genera that belong to the superfamily Stenopelmatoidea appear to be distributed worldwide.
A little while before I found scorpion last summer, I actually found nymph of jerusalem cricket. However, because I neither caught nor took a picture of it for some reason at that time, I have wanted to see this bug again (I might have a chance to see it only once last year but it was in the middle of being eaten by scorpion...). Moreover, because I had no idea how to find this insect except turing stones/rocks because they live underground, just like moles, I have expected that I have only a few chances to see them.
Thus, I'm very happy to see it!!
今年初の更新です。最初の写真は記事とは何も関係ありません。
そう、エルサレムクリケット。ポテトバグとも言います。エルサレムって付いてるのに、この属はアメリカ西部とメキシコあたりにしかいないようです。他の属・科は世界のあちこちにいるようです。日本のコロギスが同じ上科の虫です。要は後肢が発達してないコオロギです。去年、サソリを見た少し前あたりに幼虫を一度見て(なぜか写真も撮らずスルーし)以来、成虫を見たいなと思っていました。実は一度成虫を見ましたが、サソリの餌食になっていて食われている最中でした…
石起こし以外に見つける手だても無いだろうし…とか思ってた所、今朝は濃霧で湿度が上がったので、もしや表層に移動してないかと思って、昼飯がてらちょっと外に出ていい感じの石をひっくり返したらおりました。久々に嬉しいもん見た!
