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Here are the facts about Orthoptera. Where they live.         Field crickets, the familiar black or brownish crickets are often abundant in meadows and fields. Also in dwellings or in small clusters in the ground. Tree Crickets are more often heard then seen. Usually colored green these slender crickets live in shrubs and trees. Mole Crickets can burrow rapidly through moist soil. They also can live in caves, hollow logs, beneath stones, and other dark moist …

…of years of evolutionary time, mantises have occupied all accessible regions that may have a suitable climate. They abound especially in tropical and subtropical areas and have adapted by protective color and form to a variety of habitants. If danger is imminent, a mantis may explode into action, scurrying with crablike speed upward and around to the opposite tree. All and all mantises are very extraordinary creatures just like the rest of the group Orthoptera.