First known instance of a cricket as an orchid pollinator captured on film (w/ Video)

An orchid researcher based on the island of Reunion in the Indian Ocean and collaborating with researchers at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (RBG Kew) has used motion sensitive night cameras to capture the first known occurrence of a cricket functioning as a pollinator of flowering plants. Not only is this the first time this behaviour has been documented in a member of the Orthoptera order of insects - who are better known for eating plants - but the 'raspy cricket' is also entirely new to science. The discovery is revealed in a paper published today in Annals of Botany.

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