
thumb|Close-Up of a Decticus verrucivorus
wart-biter
SPECIES
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thumb|Close-Up of a Decticus verrucivorus
The wart-biter (Decticus verrucivorus) is a bush-cricket in the family Tettigoniidae. Its common and scientific names derive from the eighteenth-century Swedish practice of allowing the crickets to nibble at warts to remove them.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).