Mole crickets are arthropods.

Gryllotalpa mayflies are commonly known as lala mayflies, ground lala mayflies, sky mole crickets, earth dogs, etc. They are medicinal insects. There are five common and widely distributed species of mole crickets on the mainland of China, which are North China mole crickets, Oriental mole crickets, Jinxiu mole crickets, Henan mole crickets and Taiwan mole crickets.

North China mole crickets are mainly distributed throughout the north, the eastern mole crickets are distributed throughout China, and the damage is heavier in the south. Taiwan mole crickets occur in Taiwan, Guangdong, Guangxi. Common mole crickets are only distributed in Xinjiang.

Feeding of mole crickets:

Mole crickets have a wide range of feeding habits, and can feed on plants of many families, such as Asteraceae, Quinoa, and Cruciferae, and not only feed on the leaves of the plants, but also feed on the roots and stems. Temperature affects mole crickets feeding, 20 ° C below, as the temperature decreases, the amount of feeding is gradually reduced, the activity is also gradually reduced, 5 ° C mole crickets are almost no longer active, 20 ~ 25 ° C is conducive to mole crickets foraging, higher than 25 ° C, the amount of foraging began to decline again.

Gryllotalpa live in the soil, digging burrows in the soil, searching for food in the process of digging burrows, and then laying eggs in the burrows when it is time to lay eggs. Using absorbent skimmed cotton as a medium instead of soil, mole crickets can dig holes, sprint and chirp in it, and grow, lay eggs and reproduce in it to complete a variety of behavioral activities.