European mole cricket
mole cricket (plural mole crickets )
Any of various large insects from the family Gryllotalpidae that burrow into moist soil and feed on plant roots.
Synonym: ( UK dialect ) fen cricket
1964 , Jan Morris , “Wild Spain”, in Spain , Faber and Faber, published 2008 , →ISBN :Spain is full of mole-crickets , shrill little underground insects whose goggle eyes you may sometimes see peering sleeplessly out of their burrows, and whose buzz is so energetic that their whole bodies vibrate down there like the radiators of very old motor-cars.
insect of Gryllotalpidae
Arabic: مَالُوش m ( mālūš ) , حَالُوش m ( ḥālūš ) , حَفَّار m ( ḥaffār ) , حَرَّاثَة f ( ḥarrāṯa )
Assamese: কুমটি ( kumoti )
Catalan: cadell (ca) m , ceboller m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 螻蛄 / 蝼蛄 (zh) ( lóugū )
Czech: krtonožka f
Dutch: veenmol (nl) m
Finnish: maamyyräsirkka (fi)
French: courtilière (fr) f
Galician: toupa grilo f , grilo da terra m , relo (gl) m
Georgian: მახრა ( maxra ) , ბოსტანა ( bosṭana )
German: Maulwurfsgrille f
Hebrew: ערצב (he) m ( artsáv )
Irish: caoch-chriogar m
Japanese: 螻蛄 (ja) ( kera ) , ケラ (ja) ( kera )
Kazakh: бұзаубас ( būzaubas )
Korean: 땅강아지 (ko) ( ttanggang'aji )
Navajo: łeeyiʼ nahakʼízii
Nogai: бузавбас ( buzavbas )
Norman: scorpion m
Polish: turkuć m
Portuguese: grilo-toupeira m , paquinha f ( Brazil ) , ralo (pt) m ( Portugal ) , cachorrinho-da-terra m ( Brazil )
Romanian: coropișniță (ro) f
Russian: медве́дка (ru) f ( medvédka ) , медвёдка (ru) f ( medvjódka ) ( dated )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ровац m
Roman: rovac (sh) m
Spanish: grillo topo (es) m
Sundanese: gaang (su)
Swedish: mullvadssyrsa (sv)
Tagalog: kamamarung
Turkmen: buzaw (tk) , mürzebaşy
Ukrainian: вовчо́к m ( vovčók ) , ведме́дка f ( vedmédka ) , земле́дух m ( zemlédux ) , капустя́нка f ( kapustjánka )
Vietnamese: dế trũi , dế nhũi , dế dũi , dế chũi
Zhuang: ndungjndingq