Camel/cave cricket

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6484.  I just found this dead on our step its huge for a grasshopper had a lobster like body. Summerside, PE. Canada

Number 6484.  This is a camel/cave cricket (Orthoptera: Rhaphidophoridae); they most often are found in dark, moist, undisturbed places such as caves, basements, under logs or rocks, etc. They appear to be mainly scavengers.

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