Mole cricket damage is primarily mechanical: tunnelling through the soil near the surface,
severing the roots and uprooting the grass.

An adult Larra bicolor wasp feeding on a mole cricket by imbibing hemolymph.

The Florida counties with confirmed populations of this wasp.

Southern larraflower (left), Spermacoce verticillata, and partirdge pea (right), Chamaechrista fasciculata,
are good sources of nectar for adult Larra bicolor wasps.

An adult Larra bicolor wasp stinging a mole cricket that it chased out of its tunnel. The sting will paralyze the mole cricket.

A wasp's egg deposited on the ventral side of the thorax of a mole cricket. The elongate, pearly white egg is central in the picture.

A developing larva of a Larra bicolor wasp feeding on a mole cricket. The larva is a little to the right of the center of the picture.

A fully grown larva of the Larra bicolor wasp near pieces of the mole cricket on which it developed.

The cocoon of the Larra wasp.

A 2 x 2 ft square quadrat made out of half-inch pvc pipe.

Barbed wire.