![]() ![]() As trout or smallmouth food they are a minor terrestrial species, but where they are found in conjunction with Western rivers, imitations of the Mormon Cricket can be very productive. The Mormon Cricket isn’t actually a cricket but instead a flightless shield-back Katydid. (It wasn’t actually named taxonomically until 1852). More importantly for the fly angler, Anabrus simplex, a very large insect, gained the name of Mormon Cricket. In what became known at the “ Miracle of the Gulls”, the plague of Anabrus simplex was wiped out and the crops saved. ![]() Hordes of Anabrus simplex are devastating their first spring crops. It’s 1848, in the early days of the settlement of Salt Lake City by the Mormons.
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