camel crickets(?)
a brief note on context:
i was sieving stones from the sunken guerrilla garden i'm constructing in a deep divot in the rock of a local island. the "soil" in the divot is pretty much as though someone dumped a load of random rocks in a pit (from small pebbles & flakes to a few multihundredpound lumps) an aeon orso ago that has slowly been trickle-filled with decaying matter & wormshit until it's packed solid, a network of weird roots winding through it all. "digging" in this stuff is next to impossible: almost anywhere my little handtrowel gets pushed, it's stopped about a quarter-inch in by a rock.
pulling out yet another "keystone" about a coupla feet down, these 2 tumbled out from behind.
i get that the females can dig & have ovipositors that can extend somewhat further but this pair were deep under a jumble of almost-solid stone.
i've found a lot of worms in what would seem impossible places down here, too: maybe their holes are being used by others as well?
camel crickets(?)
a brief note on context:
i was sieving stones from the sunken guerrilla garden i'm constructing in a deep divot in the rock of a local island. the "soil" in the divot is pretty much as though someone dumped a load of random rocks in a pit (from small pebbles & flakes to a few multihundredpound lumps) an aeon orso ago that has slowly been trickle-filled with decaying matter & wormshit until it's packed solid, a network of weird roots winding through it all. "digging" in this stuff is next to impossible: almost anywhere my little handtrowel gets pushed, it's stopped about a quarter-inch in by a rock.
pulling out yet another "keystone" about a coupla feet down, these 2 tumbled out from behind.
i get that the females can dig & have ovipositors that can extend somewhat further but this pair were deep under a jumble of almost-solid stone.
i've found a lot of worms in what would seem impossible places down here, too: maybe their holes are being used by others as well?