Gryllotalpa is a genus of insects in the mole cricket family Gryllotalpidae. Sharon used this as his principal argument for launching Mole Cricket 19. Today, they reduce the mosquito and mole cricket populations. The burrow is dug by the powerful front legs of the mole cricket. Gryllotalpa vineae is a species of mole cricket in the family Gryllotalpidae. William Gould described feeding ant nymphs to a captive mole cricket for several months. Gryllotalpa major is a prairie mole cricket of the family Gryllotalpidae. Sella participated in the 1982 Lebanon War and took part in Operation Mole Cricket 19. It took part in the 1982 Lebanon War, and assisted in Operation Mole Cricket 19. Steinernema scapterisci, the mole cricket nematode, is a species of nematode in the order Rhabditida. A further species, the mole cricket, is thought to be extinct. "Neoscapteriscus vicinus" is a medium-sized mole cricket. To save energy, the earwigs will occupy abandoned mole cricket burrows for brooding nests. When the larva emerges, it consumes the mole cricket alive. The oriental mole cricket lives underground in damp soil, digging a network of passages.