Mountain Giants: A Mormon Cricket Encounter

While up in the mountains I recently ran into one of the largest insects you can find in the Rocky Mountain range, the mormon cricket. In this episode I capture a few of them and talks about their interesting life cycle and the differences between males and females.

Sponsored by Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension

Special Thanks Content Support:
Dr. Gregory Sword
Dr. Nathan Baileye

Intro & Outro Music By Epikus and FarWest Methods Music:
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Other Music By Kevin Macleod:
Passing Action. Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Photo Credit
Cricket with Radio tracker photo by Darryl Gwynne (University of Toronto).

Cricket with Spermatophylax photo by Nathan W. Bailey.

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