Mormon cricket

English Etymology Of en Mormon cricket, attested from the late 19th century.Mormon n. and adj. 122273 1 Mormon cricket n 36077312 March 2022 Associated with the Mormon settlers due to the miracle of the gulls. Noun A large dark wingless katydid, Anabrus simplex species, that resembles a cricket and is found in the arid parts of the western U.S. where it is occasionally an abundant pest of crops. en 1894 Lawrence Bruner A Preliminary Introduction to the Study of Entomology 41 In the figure 55 is shown a “wingless cricket,” of the subfamily Decticinæ of authors. This group contains many very queer looking creatures, and also some that occasionally increase in such numbers as to become pests. Our large “Mormon cricket,” the one shown in the illustration, is an example of the latter kind. 7880766 https://books.google.com/books?id=T_hGAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA41 en 1904 C.P. Gillette Report of the Entomologist Annual Report of the State Board of Agriculture and the State Agricultural College 92 Mountain crickets. (Anabrus simplex) —This large, black, wingless grasshopper, commonly called “Mormon Cricket,” “Idaho Cricket,” and “Mountain Cricket,” has been on the increase for some years past in Routt county, and the past year was a serious and formidable pest in portions of that country where cultivated crops are grown. Fort Collins, Colorado https://books.google.com/books?id=XGFW7KwY0n0C&pg=RA3-PA92 References en Crickets and grasshoppers