If you have them in your basement, you know it – these large, seemingly spider-cricket hybrids that multiply like mad and have a freaky habit of jumping right at you when you approach. But it took some brave citizen scientists to reveal something new about so-called camel crickets: The variety that lives in our basements is overwhelmingly made up of non-native species.
If these invaders are shown to have elbowed out native crickets, they would be branded full-fledged invasive species – but more research will be needed to figure that out.
