A creature of many names! This bizarre orthopteran is known by countless names across its range. Jerusalem cricket, potato bug, Cara de niño just to name a few, these animals are quite common throughout the American southwest and Mexico. Living primarily underground, these insects spend their time sheltering from the hot sun and searching for plant material like roots to munch on. Although they might look formidable, they really are fairly harmless; though they can bite quite hard, so watch out

The Jerusalem cricket, potato bug, Cara del niño, etc is one of the strangest insects on earth! These bizarre subterranean relatives to crickets and grasshoppers are common throughout the southwest US and Mexico and spend their lives in burrows eating just about anything they can find. While harmless to us humans, it’s not at all uncommon for these primarily vegetarian insects to kill and eat other small animals if they find themselves in a position to. I can’t imagine being a small insect and u