Our old and dear pal, Pete Seeger, took what I want to say right from Ecclesiastes 3:18, and made it into a song, “Turn, Turn, Turn:” “To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to […]
Jerusalem Cricket
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Quite Possibly the Creepiest Bug You’ve Ever Seen
Right here in our very own backyard —quite literally—is the strangest insect we will ever see: The Jerusalem Cricket (Stenopelmatus fuscus). However, to begin with, it’s not a cricket, and has nothing whatsoever to do with Jerusalem. (How it got that name is as baffling as how it got here.) It really belongs in a […]
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Nina de la Tierra: Child of the Earth: The mystery of the Jerusalem Cricket
I've been getting phone calls and e-mails recently reminding me this is the time of the year when unsuspecting humans meet up with our colorful
I've been getting phone calls and e-mails recently reminding me this is the time of the year when unsuspecting humans meet up with our colorful and common—but sometimes alarming—Jerusalem Cricket.
Of all the insects that live in, under, over and on Central Oregon, none can catch a person's eye and generate more fear, questions, admiration, revulsion and other human emotions like that of Stenopelmatus fuscus, the Jerusalem Cricket, AKA:
