#I hate walking in mines because of the sprickets

[larkspurious]

Grasshopper works surprisingly well, given that there's a type of cricket (Rhaphidophoridae, we call them "sprickets" for spider crickets in Washington State) that literally does take over abandoned mines:

and i remembered why i love google translate

(that should not be grasshoppers: it is a type of monster they are talking about. but because sapkowski is fond of taking insect names as monster names, it gives you funny things like this :D)