Big, Bold Armored Crickets

Survival of the specialized is the law of the Namib Desert. Thanks to a tough protective shield, this giant cricket can fend off predators and survive the tough elements.
From: NAMIBIA'S WILD WONDERS
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[@OzdiSinter]

Fun fact: This wasn't in your recommended. You searched for this after watching the "African giant crickets" video.

[@PAS-434]

Not quite but very close
(I searched for Mexican giant cricket)

[@TitoVladez115]

Fr fr

[@PastellAntiiTheistt]

Literally

[@user-qo5xx5nm2e]

Watched after looking up what they are after seeing them on a short. So close

[@joshnaround_9463]

It was literally in my recommended

[@ayylmao575]

Legit one of the coolest insects i’ve seen, and i’m not a huge fan of insects.

[@kimzchaos]

I'm a insect fan

[@dewinmoonl]

crickets bulking up.
i'm out of here

[@niggatohoodamaki7525]

dewinmoonl Yea as big as catydid lol

[@detectoplasm]

We cricket lovers will colonize in your absence.

[@Square1nes]

Cricket uses bulk up
What will you do

[@dewinmoonl]

@@Square1nes haze

[@braydon7589]

I actually think they’re fricken awesome and I want to hold one lol
I’m disturbed.

[@jessedeysel8033]

You dont want to hold one... you do know that they are cannibals right??

[@detectoplasm]

No, you're not. Not for that at least.

[@Unknown-yk3no]

They should have used this insect on "Monster bug wars"

[@surefiretv4219]

They use some of the most useless bugs like a centipede but not this armoured skilled killer 😂

[@mikes.4136]

They’re huge! Both seem to be docile while handled.

[@UnoTheMadd]

Because those aren't really wild ones .

[@Maulon69]

In southern Italy there are many as big as those in the summer. I used to play with them when i was a kid. Actually they werent crickets but GRASSHOPPERS (in italian, “locuste”), they had big wings and went around flying (especially by sunset).

[@FunerealObsession]

Different species I think.

[@MrJFoxProductions]

Acanthoplus discoidalis, as in this video, are neither locusts nor grasshoppers, but katydids of the family Tettigoniidae... however, it is their biology that defines them as CRICKETS. ;)

[@raymondfair7822]

+Jomon Fox you must like insects

[@FunerealObsession]

What are they exactly Shaun?

[@MrJFoxProductions]

Very important notation on your part - Thank you! ...
Years ago, I found out that ‘Orthoptera’ was split into two sub-orders. First is ‘Caelifera’ in which grasshoppers & locusts are the main elements. Second is ‘Ensifera’ (Latin for sword-bearer/female’s external ovipositors) which includes 'katydids' (long-horned grasshoppers/bush-crickets), 'true-crickets', and all other elements “cricket-like” in respect to their various families, of whom I have a fully comprehensive list.
I have been addressed before regarding my use of the term “cricket”, as it seems a bit loose… However, when I consider the biology of an [Orthopteran] insect and it sports (a.) long antennae (with some exceptions to families ‘cooloolidae’ and ‘gryllotalpidae’), (b.) tympanic membranes under the front knees, (c.) [females with an] external egg-laying organ, (d.) [male] ‘wing-on-wing’ stridulation to make sound; regardless of size, color or morphology… I call a ‘cricket’ a “cricket” - this used to be a complicated issue for myself. Not anymore. ;)
*Food For Thought For Us All*
As members of the suborder Caelifera family ‘Tetrigidae’ are called “pygmy-locusts/grasshoppers”… perhaps ‘true-crickets’ of the suborder Ensifera family ‘Gryllidae’ should be called “Pygmy-Katydids” … 0_0 ... Think about it! :o)

[@Samuraislash600]

Adorable I want one. Gonna name him Annihilator :D

[@AurelianSkies]

I really want one of these as a pet

[@Sribgo]

Came here after watching a video about a guy throwing two cockroaches, rocks and rose thorns in a cup.

[@undine8750]

I saw one of those on a nature show. It went up a tree to eat a baby bird then the mama bird came back and pecked it so it spewed it’s yellow nasty blood at it and then it fell down and the other crickets became cannibals and ate it.

[@edi99ish]

Did you watch it here in YT?
I saw it too in TV, but I haven't found it here in YT.

[@dewinmoonl]

@@edi99ish it was on YT awhile ago but it's down. i been tryiin to find it too

[@tlfortynine]

Found the 1st video my fellow kiddos. But there is more gore than you thing.

[@henzanich6084]

@@dewinmoonl David Attenboroughs series Africa

[@larrygiles8556]

Just saw a TH-cam short on this.

[@ColossalSwordFormAndTechnique]

They’re hecka chill 😂 would name great pets 👌

[@supermodern]

Elegant and beautiful...

[@1stbadgamer389]

Strange to think “what if they didn’t exist” the grasses would grow so much the soil would become useless and all plants would die. All bugs would die and the animals that eat the bugs and the predators that eat the bug/grass eating animals. These things are natural landscapers who are employed seasonally

[@LongNeckedBird]

When you’re missing the Helmet for your Legendary Armour Set:

[@Unlucky-Dube]

Awesome presenter.

[@trenaebowers1968]

Can you find these crickets in the United States

[@lorddonqweetle]

looks like an alien cricket

[@raymondfair7822]

The Dwaine "Rock" Johnson of the Insect Kingdom

[@raymondfair7822]

Samurai crickets

[@krishorst4734]

You lucky you didn't get sprayed mate!

[@lilitharam44]

Cool! But WHY is he Holding them?!?!

[@raphlvlogs271]

are they related to wetas?

[@0...00..19]

What is that a freaking lobster?

[@furrywolfxfox7948]

They more like aliens

[@alemonapotatabutalso8816]

they are the knights of the insect just like the katytid

[@mulletman692]

You got balls

[@DuncanUdaho67]

WHY IS HE TOUCHING IT

[@Nathaniel-pq2mb]

What The place you find them?

[@jessedeysel8033]

Namibia, live here btw

[@goliathtigerfishes]

Antarctica

[@michaelspruill6721]

Yes it's the truth

[@Poptomist]

I thought they were way bigger

[@thenotoriousgryyn342]

Cool

[@hocares6983]

it looks like a mosquitoes

[@Soggys0up85]

Kinda cute tbh.

[@mr.y1744]

다흑님영상보고옴

[@Zazzyvaca9292]

Wish I were cricket 🤓

[@samsebin7895]

You would get eaten alive then 🤓

[@Ima184mm]

Panzer Cricket

[@jabz_xx]

Crazy. I came from another video where these insects trying to eat baby birds and squirt blood! Everyone in the comments had a different take on them than “cute” or “cool” which is what I’m reading in this comment section 😂

[@nowirehangers2815]

Can you eat em ??

[@supsquark505]

2:53

[@dweezler]

These are monsters! Not crickets! MONSTERS!

[@ramslak]

your mother is a monster. BOOYA!
classic response

[@detectoplasm]

@@ramslak gottem

[@ColossalSwordFormAndTechnique]

I’ll buy males and females in bulk. These should be great breeders and used as food for my giant ants ☝️

[@rudivisser7899]

No thanks! SIS!

[@BijihLogamMulia]

*SATRIA BAJA HITAM*

[@ronniestaggs5846]

Yeah 😂 “crickets”

[@sammuelalcantara1178]

Hmmmm yum yum bon appetit.

[@solidfoundation1323]

monsters

[@knigthfigth]

pussy

[@patrickwynkoop9442]

They will eat anything even you if you let them but baby animals are definitely on there menu They eat meat 🍖

[@road_to_1000]

If see this insect I'm literally gonna burn em

[@PS.R.SELF357]

I didn't like this crickets at all, their sound is very disturbing and they can eat pretty much anything, including other dead crickets

[@sick069]

Nope. Never ever going to africa

[@Saurracuda]

I like those things, find em cute.

[@jessedeysel8033]

They're cannibals, and they start eating themselves when they get wounded

[@eanschaan9392]

@@jessedeysel8033 Ok, and that changes things how? Some Rodents are cute but they eat their babies when stressed out.

[@jessedeysel8033]

@@eanschaan9392 I dont really like rodents either anyways😂 oh and oof I forgot I even watched this video.

[@celestinez9406]

if you say they are cute, you must check this out : Jerusalem Cricket