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Mormon cricket

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Mormon cricket
n.
A large, wingless, long-horned grasshopper (Anabrus simplex) of the western United States that is often destructive to crops.
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Noun1.Mormon cricket - large dark wingless cricket-like katydid of arid parts of western United Statesmormon cricket - large dark wingless cricket-like katydid of arid parts of western United States
Anabrus simplex
katydid - large green long-horned grasshopper of North America; males produce shrill sounds by rubbing together special organs on the forewings
Anabrus, genus Anabrus - a genus of Tettigoniidae
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What if scientists discovered a bug native to some other area of the world that would eat Mormon crickets by the bucketful?
A debate over bugs by Staff / Las Vegas Sun
Residents in Tuscarora, Nevada, are so fed up with swarms of Mormon Crickets that they have resorted to cranking up the volume on songs such as Stairway to Heaven to scare them away.
IT'S A WHOLE LOTTA BUGS; INSECTS SCARED OFF BY ROCKERS by Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England)
8 million to eradicate Mormon crickets from Nevada; $846,000 for the Father's Day Rally Committee Inc.
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