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Greenhouse Camel Cricket

Tachycines asynamorus

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) agranola, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

28 photos

Study shows up to four per card, from different observers, so you learn the species rather than one picture. Heart the good ones and swap any you do not like.

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Easily confused with

Study checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.

Where it is recorded

Records by month in Virginia.January 84, February 90, March 99, April 162, May 210, June 104, July 84, August 81, September 98, October 123, November 105, December 77.
United States6,565
Virginia1,285
Maryland1,136
North Carolina1,019
New Jersey477
New York414
Missouri384
Alaska304
Kentucky253
Pennsylvania239

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Physical

  • ExoskeletonHas a hard external skeletonFrom its classification

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumArthropods · Arthropoda
ClassInsects · Insecta
OrderGrasshoppers, Crickets, and Katydids · Orthoptera
FamilyCamel Crickets, Cave Crickets, and Cave Wēta · Rhaphidophoridae
GenusTachycines

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Greenhouse Camel Cricket with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.