American Museum of Natural History
March 24 at 8:14 PM
Meet the Jerusalem cricket (Stenopelmatus fuscus)! It’s also known as the potato bug for its tendency to live in potato fields, where it munches on the roots of the crop. This insect lives in western North America and spends most of its time underground, relying on its big head and mandibles to push through the soil. How big does the unusual-looking critter get? As big as 2 inches (5 centimeters) long!
Photo: J.J. Maughn, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, flickr
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A Dillingham pilot says he spotted the creature while flying passengers to Manokotak last week. He calculated that its wingspan matched the length of a wing on his Cessna 207. That’s about 14 feet.
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← This sequence is cropped (and looped) from the last 10 frames of the video captured on Sol 6 by a camera on the lander for NASA’s Mars Pathfinder rover. Not enough pixels, but still, mighty impressive. This evidence was discovered -way- back in the day by 
