Weird Bug ID!!!
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Jerusalem cricket - Stenopelmatus sp.
WOW that was fast, thank you. I looked it up and it is a Jerusalem cricket: http://www.sel.barc.usda.gov/selhome/gbu/stenopelmatus_cas.jpg
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ditto that. nice find, they're fun.
Thanks, some more good pics I found: http://nathistoc.bio.uci.edu/orthopt/Stenopelmatus.htm
I wish I can find another, but I have honestly never seen these before and I've lived in CA all my life.
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I've only seen them once where I live- 2 day ago in a biology lab, pinned and labeled
Sure must be neat to find one alive!
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they're all over here... been finding them m whole life:} i hear they can give you a nasty bite but i've never experienced it
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If anyone has seen the original 1931 Dracula with Bela Lugosi, there is a quick scene where a Jerusalem Cricket emerges from a tiny casket. The intended effect was that it was a human sized bug but it doesn't really work!
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LOL, I had a funny experience with one of these (they like pinhead crickets I learned BTW). When I was a kid I found a huge one of these and kept it in a tuppleware container. Well, being as A.D.D. as a kid can be, after I had fed it I had sped off to go play some games and left the lid open!
Somehow the little beast managed to climb a 5" space between the top and the substrate and went missing for 2 days.
I forgot what I was doing but I suddenly hear a loud "DANIELLE!!" I go into the livingroom and my mom points to the carpet, "Is this one of your's? I was cleaning and I thought it was a candy wrapper and tried picking it up and it kicked me!" I took my insect back and kept him for a week longer before it died. They're kind of pet holes but really low maintenance.
Oh, and like all crickets, they reek like heck dead. My dad stepped on a big one before and when I found it a foot away I could smell it. X-P
Somehow the little beast managed to climb a 5" space between the top and the substrate and went missing for 2 days.
I forgot what I was doing but I suddenly hear a loud "DANIELLE!!" I go into the livingroom and my mom points to the carpet, "Is this one of your's? I was cleaning and I thought it was a candy wrapper and tried picking it up and it kicked me!" I took my insect back and kept him for a week longer before it died. They're kind of pet holes but really low maintenance.
Oh, and like all crickets, they reek like heck dead. My dad stepped on a big one before and when I found it a foot away I could smell it. X-P