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Lava crickets live on fresh lava flows. They have adapted from life among wet rocks at the beach (the beach cricket is their cousin) to the hot rocks of fresh lava flows. They drink only fresh water. Lava crickets start colonizing smooth pahoehoe lava flows within a month after as eruption! They abandon an area within 20-100 years, when the barren lava flow becomes covered with plants. They spend their days in the cracks of lava flows and gather their food at night. The strong winds that blow over the lava bring them insects and other small creatures to eat. This food and water gets trapped in holes in lava rocks. A tasty meal to a lava cricket is one that has been cooked by the heat of a warm lava flow! Unlike many other types of crickets, lava crickets are wingless and they do not crick.

Hooded grasshoper in western ghats of India. Spotted at a hill station called Peermade near to Periyar Tiger Reserve. Seems similar to Teratodes monticollis but the absence of yellow-orange edge of pronotum, the distinctive white streak on the posterio-ventral edge of the hood and the reddish-brown tibia and tarsus other than green in monticollis suggests a different species. Identification needed.