TR- WTF is this bug?

**BushwackerinPA** · 08-22-2007, 10:51 PM

This thing was crawling around in my house and I ahve no fucking clue what it is. Looks like a cross between a ant/grasshopper with a stripped abdomen.

its pretty big

grasshopper nymph is my first guess but wondering if any bug-mags would know.

**MrDirt** · 08-22-2007, 10:53 PM

TERMITESSSS

**gbarnum** · 08-22-2007, 10:56 PM

Fucking wierd looking! Run!

Or get the raid!

My house was full of bees. Just had them eradicated the other day. I think if insects wanted, we'd all be dead.

**Jer** · 08-22-2007, 10:57 PM

Jerusalem cricket.
Better nerve gas the neighborhood pronto!

**BushwackerinPA** · 08-22-2007, 11:01 PM

holy shit^ is that one full grown.

very cool insect, David is right I found it on a bug site. how big do these thing get?

**Pow4Brains** · 08-22-2007, 11:03 PM

My guess is your house is being eat'n quickly.

**spindrift** · 08-22-2007, 11:06 PM

Originally Posted by BushwackerinPA

holy shit^ is that one full grown.

... how big do these thing get?

Watch out!

**Steepdeepnlong** · 08-22-2007, 11:13 PM

^^^ Post of the day!!!^^^

**Hutch** · 08-22-2007, 11:18 PM

I just heard some clicking.

I'm very nervous right now.

**hutash** · 08-22-2007, 11:36 PM

Just call Truth, he will take care of it for you with his trusty 8 legged insect spray

BTW it is an insect, not a bug. All bugs (order Hemiptera), but not all insects are bugs. This sort of thing used to drive my entomology prof. nuts. (Not that anybody really cares.) That being said, when we were kids we called those potato bugs.

**LegoSkier** · 08-23-2007, 12:37 AM

AKA Potato Bug in NorCal.

You can do the insect version of dog fighting with these things. Find two or more and put them in an old cookie container or similar. Watch as they rip each others limbs off. I was a fucked up kid. I also vaguely remember a multi species cage match I did with a couple of these, a big centepede, and a small scorpion.

**flatNshallow** · 08-23-2007, 07:33 AM

Apparenetly they are not pests and eat roots...

Some bug dude on that link asks that you contact him and shipthe critter to him for study? wtf? Anyway - sounds like germ warfare may not be needed.

**Viva** · 08-23-2007, 07:46 AM

Originally Posted by flatNshallow

Some bug dude on that link asks that you contact him and shipthe critter to him for study? wtf?

He has sex with them.

**mojorisin** · 08-23-2007, 08:23 AM

you may or may not die there, bud. i'd be careful with the motherfucker

**The AD** · 08-23-2007, 08:30 AM

Originally Posted by David Witherspoon

Jerusalem cricket.
Better nerve gas the neighborhood pronto!

Yeah, but why is Paul Simon holding it?

**snowsprite** · 08-23-2007, 08:43 AM

Send him to my house instead. My pet raccoons will eat him!

Sprite

**MacDaddy** · 08-23-2007, 08:59 AM

Originally Posted by Viva

He has sex with them.

that would be difficult if not next to impossible, but having sex ON them is another story.

**Buzzworthy** · 08-23-2007, 10:19 AM

Originally Posted by hutash

BTW it is an insect, not a bug. This sort of thing used to drive my entomology prof. nuts.

Heh, my ento prof hated that too. So I called em bugs all the time. I was a college hippy asshole.

That class blew hairy donkey balls. Escaped with my only D, last semester, graduated and forgot all that crap.

**scarlet begonias** · 08-23-2007, 10:25 AM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem_cricket

I am a wiki dork.

Don't use the poison!! He is virtually harmless - just put him outside and let him go on his merry way.

**train07** · 08-23-2007, 10:30 AM

You've got that right idea with the lighter, J.
Torch that fucker!!

sorry, it's cause my parents named me..ya know

**powdork** · 08-23-2007, 10:38 AM

Torch that fucker!!

When i was a kid we had large fire ant hills in our yard and the surrounds. I would take the can of raid and hold a lighter in front of it while I torched all those muthafuckas.
Please don't do this at home. At least, not near my home.

**SponsoredByDuctTape** · 08-23-2007, 11:03 AM

Be careful with that thing. They bite hard as hell - just look at the size of the mandibles. One took a small chunk of my pinky when I was about 8.

**PaSucks** · 08-23-2007, 03:21 PM

Where I'm from, these are potato bugs:

**skimoore** · 08-23-2007, 03:28 PM

Originally Posted by PaSucks

Where I'm from, these are potato bugs:

Those are sow bugs or pill bugs. They look way more like a sow or a pill than a potato. Yeesh, kids these days.

**altagirl** · 08-23-2007, 03:31 PM

Apparently what you have is a Martian.

http://www.potatobugs.com/articles/mars.html

And harmless or not, I hope there aren't any of those in our house.