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Description
The Rocky Cricket (Acanthogrillus capricornius) is a species of field cricket adapted to the rocky mountain regions of the island, where its sounds can be heard during the mating season at the end of the wet season. Not much to say about them, they have a body bulkier than usual crickets, with strong curved legs to jump through the rocks and a grey exoskeleton to camouflage. Males fight using the hind legs, too, and use the hook-like claws of the front legs to grapple while doing so. After mating, the females descend to the forest areas near the mountains where the babies will grow. If turned upside down, their bright orange abdomen can confuse predators.

The interesting thing about this species is that it can be a host of a Cordyceps fungus, usually called the Ram Cordyceps (Cordyceps vortex), that grows in a spiral, giving the cricket's corpse ram-looking horns.

Description
The Rocky Cricket (Acanthogrillus capricornius) is a species of field cricket adapted to the rocky mountain regions of the island, where its sounds can be heard during the mating season at the end of the wet season. Not much to say about them, they have a body bulkier than usual crickets, with strong curved legs to jump through the rocks and a grey exoskeleton to camouflage. Males fight using the hind legs, too, and use the hook-like claws of the front legs to grapple while doing so. After mating, the females descend to the forest areas near the mountains where the babies will grow. If turned upside down, their bright orange abdomen can confuse predators.

The interesting thing about this species is that it can be a host of a Cordyceps fungus, usually called the Ram Cordyceps (Cordyceps vortex), that grows in a spiral, giving the cricket's corpse ram-looking horns.