Camel Cricket?

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Noah M
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Camel Cricket?

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While out cruising for upland snakes I found this very large cricket/grasshopper on the road. I think I've heard other folks call them camel crickets (Rhaphidophoridae), but was wondering if anybody could get more specific than that.

Found in Lafayette County, Florida.

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I also saw this flat southern toad moving across the road. Turned out to be a Burying Beetle (Nicrophorus carolinus). I moved both off the road so the beetle didn't have the same fate as the toad.

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I think it is a female robust shieldback katydid (Atlanticus gibbosus).
Cool observations.
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Re: Camel Cricket?

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That looks right.

Thank you.
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