Mole crickets burrow through the soil at night and damage the seedlings.
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蛄 is not used on its own in modern Chinese. It is a bound morpheme appearing only in insect/crustacean names: 蝼蛄 (mole cricket) and the dialectal 蝲蛄 (a small crayfish), where it carries a second reading gǔ.
