The Potato Bug and CLHS
The Jerusalem Cricket has been found on our campus
even in the building! It is certainly an unusual
and ugly creature, but like all things... beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Kingdom: Animalia
Common Name:
Potato Bug
Scientific Name: Stenopelmatus coahuilensis
Taxonomy:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Family: Stenopelmatidae
Genus: Stenopelmatus
Species: coahuilensis
Natural Range
The potato bug or Jerusalem cricket is commonly
found in the western United States along the Pacific Coast reaching from
Washington
to Mexico.
Interesting Facts
The potato bug or Jjerusalem cricket is a nocturnal
animal that sometimes comes out during the day in search
of food and drink. Even though it has the word cricket
in its name, it can not make beautiful music like crickets. It is able to
beat its legs against its abdomen making a sounds inaudible to human ears.
The potato bug is also able to make a nasty smell capable of driving some
of its predictors away.
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The Potato Bug and CLHS
The Jerusalem Cricket has been found on our campus
even in the building! It is certainly an unusual
and ugly creature, but like all things... beauty is in the eye of the beholder.