Cave or Cellar Cricket Phaeophylacris bredoides

The spidery-looking Cave Cricket, also called Cellar Cricket, shown is one of hundreds of crickets sharing this common name. It is native to Eastern Africa and some 3cm long (10cm with antennae).

It is flightless and nocturnal. Living in cave entrances at quite high density, it has antennae some 3-4 times its body length to feel its way around. It eats animal droppings (mainly bat), deritus, fungi, fruit and corpses. It also lives in human-built cellars.