Visitor from afar...

Well, Santa came to my house early this year! I had pulled my sofa away from the wall to vacuum and found this:


Needless to say, I was perplexed! And then I found this:


My hypothesis was a termite hive. The exterminator came today. He said it's an Egyptian cricket. I thought, "Wow! From the land of the Pharaoahs! What an honor!" So I looked it up and this looks nothing like said creature.


Perhaps it is a species of mole cricket:

I've been scouring the web with my net and have as of yet come up empty handed. Whatever this guy or gal was, they were a busy little bugger to spit or poo a 2ft x 1ft nest/hive/sand castle behind my friggin' sofa!