• Adult Size: 45 mm (body); 100 mm (legspan).
  
• Care Level: Intermediate.
• Temperature Requirements: 70-80 degrees Fahrenheit.
• Air Humidity: Moist with ventilation.
  
• Substrate Humidity: Moist.
  
• Favorite Foods: Not picky.
  
• Locality: Currently being researched.

After a bumpy ride to Florida and some setbacks including a flat tire, driving winds, and finger lightning, it was finally time to gear up and go on a night time hunt for bugs. As we entered the woods, familiar figures greeted us; Cariblatta crawled up the trees and Parcoblatta froze in our headlamps. Alan and I had stopped to admire a mating pair of Virginia wood roaches, and I continued observing them while annotating and recording. Alan had decided to check the other side of the tree, which was clearly a good choice; the next thing I heard was a stuttering mix of “WHOOOAA!”s and “WHAAA?”s. Satchell soon chimed in with a “What in God’s name…”. I directed my attention to where all the headlamps were convening; sitting comfortably on the side of the log was the largest cave cricket I had ever seen. Easily over 90 millimeters long (not including the antennae), the monster has forever wrecked my view of the smaller, diminutive cave crickets I had encountered in Michigan. It was not the first of its kind to greet us that night; many others soon followed, some smaller and some even larger. Out of fifteen or so individuals I collected, only seven or so survived the week-long road trip through the rest of Florida and all the way back up here to the frigid north. However, once they had adjusted to their new enclosure, the species bred steadily. In fact, though many adults died suspiciously prematurely (most likely due to parasites remaining in their system from the wild), one female that was collected as an adult during the trip survived an additional six months despite losing both of her back legs. Her offspring were the captive ambassadors for this novel and freakishly impressive species. Unfortunately I eventually lost this strain for a number of reasons, but luckily Alan was able to catch and share some of the nominate subspecies, which is what’s currently available. I intend to head back to the original collection spot soon to re-establish this special variety.