EWWWWWW....anybody seen these creepy things before?

Oh they are nasty....when I woke up for work at 3 a.m....I get my coffee turn on the weather channel and my adorable Boxer is contently watching something on the floor....I look to see what it is and :faint::

I started screaming, husband comes running, bumping into walls, stubbed his toe and then shouts "Just a da*m bug!" and proceeds to stumble back to bed....leaving me in the living room alone with this nasty a*s thing!

here's what it looked like!
weird bug - BugGuide.Net (http://bugguide.net/node/view/279332)

I've never seen one this far north but they're very common in GA where my grandma lives.

Is that thing for REAL? OMG, if so, that is one U-G-L-Y bug!!

eew that looks like a frog.... :cds: Haven't seen those around, thank goodness. I have seen some NASTY looking fly/bee/wasp hybrid things flying around. I killed two in our house (kids leave the door open to go play) and they really freaked me out. I wouldn't even know how to find a picture of it, but I've never seen anything like it before. It had the head of a fly, with the HUGE eyes, but the body of a wasp/bee - big, with a stinger at the end. Wings like a fly... at least an inch and a half long. Ugly suckers.

EWWWWWW....anybody seen these creepy things before?

Oh they are nasty....when I woke up for work at 3 a.m....I get my coffee turn on the weather channel and my adorable Boxer is contently watching something on the floor....I look to see what it is and :faint::

I started screaming, husband comes running, bumping into walls, stubbed his toe and then shouts "Just a da*m bug!" and proceeds to stumble back to bed....leaving me in the living room alone with this nasty a*s thing!

here's what it looked like!
weird bug - BugGuide.Net (http://bugguide.net/node/view/279332)



OMG yes. they are the craziest looking things. when i was a kid we always saw the "normal" black crickets sometimes brown. But now i never see those. its these wierd bubble back freakish bugs. how did they get here and what happen to our normal ones?:shocking:.. well after looking mole crickets up i see that they arent what im talking about. the ones ive seen are cave crickets or camel crickets but either what what happen to the regular ones???

EWWWWWW....anybody seen these creepy things before?

Oh they are nasty....when I woke up for work at 3 a.m....I get my coffee turn on the weather channel and my adorable Boxer is contently watching something on the floor....I look to see what it is and :faint::

I started screaming, husband comes running, bumping into walls, stubbed his toe and then shouts "Just a da*m bug!" and proceeds to stumble back to bed....leaving me in the living room alone with this nasty a*s thing!

here's what it looked like!
weird bug - BugGuide.Net (http://bugguide.net/node/view/279332)

EEWWW! That thing is disgusting. :faint:

Spider Cricket - BugGuide.Net (http://bugguide.net/node/view/239580)

these guys are breeding somewhere in my garage and when I open the door to let the doors out, there is about a hundred of them waiting to either come in my house or go out in the yard with the dogs

I wouldn't have an issue with them if my spider liked to eat them(apparently they taste bad) and they didn't bite(and yea, they do bite)

EWWWWWW....anybody seen these creepy things before?

Oh they are nasty....when I woke up for work at 3 a.m....I get my coffee turn on the weather channel and my adorable Boxer is contently watching something on the floor....I look to see what it is and :faint::

I started screaming, husband comes running, bumping into walls, stubbed his toe and then shouts "Just a da*m bug!" and proceeds to stumble back to bed....leaving me in the living room alone with this nasty a*s thing!

here's what it looked like!
weird bug - BugGuide.Net (http://bugguide.net/node/view/279332)



OMG. I have never seen one of those before but I would shiat if I did. Ewwww.

Spider Cricket - BugGuide.Net (http://bugguide.net/node/view/239580)

these guys are breeding somewhere in my garage and when I open the door to let the doors out, there is about a hundred of them waiting to either come in my house or go out in the yard with the dogs

I wouldn't have an issue with them if my spider liked to eat them(apparently they taste bad) and they didn't bite(and yea, they do bite)

I have those in my garage too! They are creepy and can jump like 5 million feet in the air! Ok, I exaggerated, maybe 2 million...

OMG yes. they are the craziest looking things. when i was a kid we always saw the "normal" black crickets sometimes brown. But now i never see those. its these wierd bubble back freakish bugs. how did they get here and what happen to our normal ones?:shocking:

ooh the ones that jump 6' in the air!??! Camel Cricket - Diestrammena asynamora - BugGuide.Net (http://bugguide.net/node/view/33736)


Oh they gross me out....it's too funny how I'm not afraid of snakes....but absolutely and completely freaked out by a bug! Now since trying to find out what that thing was, looking at all those pages now I have the creepy crawlies!

Spider Cricket - BugGuide.Net (http://bugguide.net/node/view/239580)

these guys are breeding somewhere in my garage and when I open the door to let the doors out, there is about a hundred of them waiting to either come in my house or go out in the yard with the dogs

I wouldn't have an issue with them if my spider liked to eat them(apparently they taste bad) and they didn't bite(and yea, they do bite)

:jameo:Sprickets :jameo:

eew that looks like a frog.... :cds: Haven't seen those around, thank goodness. I have seen some NASTY looking fly/bee/wasp hybrid things flying around. I killed two in our house (kids leave the door open to go play) and they really freaked me out. I wouldn't even know how to find a picture of it, but I've never seen anything like it before. It had the head of a fly, with the HUGE eyes, but the body of a wasp/bee - big, with a stinger at the end. Wings like a fly... at least an inch and a half long. Ugly suckers.

Sounds like a horsefly..

http://www.zianet.com/pestman/images/Horsefly.JPG
http://blogs.japanesepod101.com/files/2008/06/horsefly.jpg

:shocking:

Okay NOW when we go to sleep tonight are these things going to be crawling all over us????

:cds:

:jameo:Sprickets :jameo:

I've always called them cave crickets....any way you call them, they are just a pain in the ass

Had one sitting on the top of my dresser the other morning staring at me....needless to say, it was dead on my floor right in front of that dresser a second later *flexingmuscles*

ok while we are on the bug conversation, is anyone having trouble with excessive spiders this year. they are all over the place(in the house) and outside. ahhh. even thought about calling an exterminator. they are that bad

Yes! Sitting at the computer caught something out of the corner of my eye.....wolf spider biggest I ever seen...lol...hubby even shivered about that one!

Mole crickets and exessive spiders? The Algore is right! :cds:

Mole crickets and exessive spiders? The Algore is right! :cds:

:confused: Global Spidering?

Sounds like a horsefly..

http://www.zianet.com/pestman/images/Horsefly.JPG
http://blogs.japanesepod101.com/files/2008/06/horsefly.jpg

I thought it was a horsefly at first... I have seen many of those on the eastern shore growing up. But these things were BIGGER than a horsefly and had a more segmented body - like a wasp. Plus a stinger on the end - I actually caught one inbetween the window pane and the screen and it eventually died then I got a good look at it. I should have taken pictures....

wait, maybe I did... hmm...
edit - nope, couldn't find a picture. darn - maybe it's still in the window :lol:

I thought it was a horsefly at first... I have seen many of those on the eastern shore growing up. But these things were BIGGER than a horsefly and had a more segmented body - like a wasp. Plus a stinger on the end - I actually caught one inbetween the window pane and the screen and it eventually died then I got a good look at it. I should have taken pictures....

wait, maybe I did... hmm...
edit - nope, couldn't find a picture. darn - maybe it's still in the window :lol:

Was it a mud dauber?

http://www.afpmb.org/pubs/Field_Guide/Images/originals/Fig.%20120.jpg
http://www.fumexpro.com/img1/Mud%20Daubers.jpg

I was thinking the same thing about creepy crawlies. I can stand Tarantula's, Scorpions, lizards and snakes, but let one of those cave crickets near me and I am climbing the walls, and no this is not Mr. Buckin this is Mrs. :cds:

I've never seen one this far north but they're very common in GA where my grandma lives.

I've never seen one up this way either. I lived on the panhandle of FL for several years and these things are the bane of every lawn down there.

You wanna see something nasty and dangerous. I had one of these chase me down in Saudi Arabia once. A camel spider.

I've never seen one up this way either. I lived on the panhandle of FL for several years and these things are the bane of every lawn down there.

You wanna see something nasty and dangerous. I had one of these chase me down in Saudi Arabia once. A camel spider.

:shocking:

We have a problem with Barking Wall Spiders - see video

YouTube - The Spiders Are Barking!! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzqM0cI3ro4)

We have a problem with Barking Wall Spiders - see video

YouTube - The Spiders Are Barking!! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzqM0cI3ro4)

:smack:

I was thinking the same thing about creepy crawlies. I can stand Tarantula's, Scorpions, lizards and snakes, but let one of those cave crickets near me and I am climbing the walls, and no this is not Mr. Buckin this is Mrs. :cds:

You need your own account, just don't name it DoeinHeat OK? You'll get a lot of attention you just don't want.

You need your own account, just don't name it DoeinHeat OK? You'll get a lot of attention you just don't want.

LOL actually I did, I made one yesterday, it just go approved.

I am Macluvr. :drama:

LOL actually I did, I made one yesterday, it just go approved.

I am Macluvr. :drama:

Ta da! :lmao:

Ta da! :lmao:

An auspicious start. :yay:

An auspicious start. :yay:

:blushing:

Spider Cricket - BugGuide.Net (http://bugguide.net/node/view/239580)

these guys are breeding somewhere in my garage and when I open the door to let the doors out, there is about a hundred of them waiting to either come in my house or go out in the yard with the dogs

I wouldn't have an issue with them if my spider liked to eat them(apparently they taste bad) and they didn't bite(and yea, they do bite)

I hate those things. They can jump really far and do bite.

I've definitely never heard of mole crickets before. These things are crazy!!!

YouTube - Mole Cricket (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kv_tqapsM9M)

Spider Cricket - BugGuide.Net (http://bugguide.net/node/view/239580)

these guys are breeding somewhere in my garage and when I open the door to let the doors out, there is about a hundred of them waiting to either come in my house or go out in the yard with the dogs

I wouldn't have an issue with them if my spider liked to eat them(apparently they taste bad) and they didn't bite(and yea, they do bite)

I hate letting my doors out, they take so long to pee!

ok while we are on the bug conversation, is anyone having trouble with excessive spiders this year. they are all over the place(in the house) and outside. ahhh. even thought about calling an exterminator. they are that bad

yes! on the 20th I opened the back door to the garage and was greeted with three black spiders that fell from the top of the door. I stepped outside to count 50 of them just along the side of the garage, plus many more hiding in the siding. :cds:


We've also had TONS of these spiders with brown heads/thorax and white/light tan bodies with brown spots on the back. Does anyone have a clue what kind they are? They seem to be the only kind we've really seen this summer besides those black ones.

yes! on the 20th I opened the back door to the garage and was greeted with three black spiders that fell from the top of the door. I stepped outside to count 50 of them just along the side of the garage, plus many more hiding in the siding. :cds:


We've also had TONS of these spiders with brown heads/thorax and white/light tan bodies with brown spots on the back. Does anyone have a clue what kind they are? They seem to be the only kind we've really seen this summer besides those black ones.

Try: Spider Identification Chart - Venomous or Dangerous? (http://www.termite.com/spider-identification.html)

OMG yes. they are the craziest looking things. when i was a kid we always saw the "normal" black crickets sometimes brown. But now i never see those. its these wierd bubble back freakish bugs. how did they get here and what happen to our normal ones?:shocking:.. well after looking mole crickets up i see that they arent what im talking about. the ones ive seen are cave crickets or camel crickets but either what what happen to the regular ones???

Yeah, I always used to call those cricket moles too, but now I know what they are really called.

The worst thing about those cave crickets is they jump high into the craziest spots. My worst experience, especially since they always grossed me out before this anyway, is one when I was pulling up my pants and underwear after taking a piss where I lived and I did not notice one jumped in my shorts untill it was jumping and squirming against my testicles the moment I pulled my shorts up all the way.

I hate them!!!!!!!!!

Thanks for sharing that....






:killingme

Yeah, I always used to call those cricket moles too, but now I know what they are really called.

The worst thing about those cave crickets is they jump high into the craziest spots. My worst experience, especially since they always grossed me out before this anyway, is one when I was pulling up my pants and underwear after taking a piss where I lived and I did not notice one jumped in my shorts untill it was jumping and squirming against my testicles the moment I pulled my shorts up all the way.

I hate them!!!!!!!!!
You pee like a 4 year old? :lmao:

EWWWWWW....anybody seen these creepy things before?

Oh they are nasty....when I woke up for work at 3 a.m....I get my coffee turn on the weather channel and my adorable Boxer is INTENTLY watching something on the floor....I look to see what it is and :faint::

I started screaming, husband comes running, bumping into walls, stubbed his toe and then shouts "Just a da*m bug!" and proceeds to stumble back to bed....leaving me in the living room alone with this nasty a*s thing!

here's what it looked like!
weird bug - BugGuide.Net (http://bugguide.net/node/view/279332)

No wonder you think that poor little cricket is nasty...you describe your Boxer as "adorable."

Boxers aren't adorable.

No bugs here, just moles. The dayum yard is infested with the little basturds.

This morning I had a solid black hard shell bug with mean looking pinchers on my kitchen counter. Looked like a baby scorpion without the tail. I freaked and put a juice glass over it and left it for the giant to take care of when he wakes up.

Edit - I found it:
Scarites Beetle
Ground Beetle - Scarites sp. (http://www.cirrusimage.com/beetles-ground-scarites.htm)

Spider Cricket - BugGuide.Net (http://bugguide.net/node/view/239580)

these guys are breeding somewhere in my garage and when I open the door to let the doors out, there is about a hundred of them waiting to either come in my house or go out in the yard with the dogs

I wouldn't have an issue with them if my spider liked to eat them(apparently they taste bad) and they didn't bite(and yea, they do bite)

My mom has those in her basement. Used to freak me out when I lived there. I have no idea if they are still there as I refuse to go down and my kids won't either.

We used to have a big problem with cave crickets (some even call them camel back crickets). We now have the house exterminated every 3 months, and that has really helped.

Yeah, I always used to call those cricket moles too, but now I know what they are really called.

The worst thing about those cave crickets is they jump high into the craziest spots. My worst experience, especially since they always grossed me out before this anyway, is one when I was pulling up my pants and underwear after taking a piss where I lived and I did not notice one jumped in my shorts untill it was jumping and squirming against my testicles the moment I pulled my shorts up all the way.

I hate them!!!!!!!!!

TMI Novus, way TMI!

We used to have a big problem with cave crickets (some even call them camel back crickets). We now have the house exterminated every 3 months, and that has really helped.

OMG I hate these spickets!!! We have them ALL OVER our crawl space, so they like to come out during the winter and come into our house to stay warm. I've read that they jump sporatically as a defense mechanism, so it seems like they're jumping towards you to attack...but it is indeed to defend themselves!

Who do you use for your exterminator? I want to get rid of these things once and for all!!!

:lalala: where are all of these weirdo bugs coming from??

Bugs I can handle though - at least I feel like *I* am in control over the bug... :lol:

When we lived in Florida, we had snakes in our house constantly - now THAT is gross. A bit TMI, but once my husband was in the shower and a snake came up through the drain pipe (the cover was on very loose and it pushed it off!) He screamed like a baby and ran through the house naked :lol:

I had to go get the darn thing... in fact, I had to get ALL of the snakes that ended up in our house. My nerdy city-bred hubby doesn't want to get within 10 feet of bugs, snakes, etc. :lol:

Seriously, have these bugs ALWAYS been out and about as much as they are this year? Growing up I was outside all the time, and I all I really remember finding are the standard bugs - heck, if we found a centipede or something we thought it was the greatest thing in the world - now I see them all over the place! As the years go by it seems like I notice bigger and stranger bugs - I'm so done with this cross-breeding evolution crap :jameo:

Lisa, keep a .410 handy with rat shot in every room. or some stilts. j/k

Have you ever shot a snake?? I have - growing up we used to get bored :lmao:
It isn't pretty - might as well use a butcher knife on the thing, it just squiggles and wiggles until the nerves die. Kind of like how a chicken runs around with its head cut off. :lmao:

maybe I'll just give the stilts to my husband - or he can wear my heels :hot:

OMG I hate these spickets!!! We have them ALL OVER our crawl space, so they like to come out during the winter and come into our house to stay warm. I've read that they jump sporatically as a defense mechanism, so it seems like they're jumping towards you to attack...but it is indeed to defend themselves!

Who do you use for your exterminator? I want to get rid of these things once and for all!!!

We use Guardian Pest Control, and they have been great. The first time I called them about the crickets they knew exactlly was I was talking about- believe it or not some exterminators did not know. I hardly ever see these crickets anymore and they used to be everywhere this time of year. Now we are on a schedule with Guardian, and they are wonderful to deal with.

No bugs here, just moles. The dayum yard is infested with the little basturds.

My yard is filled with them too... any suggestions that REALLY work? I've tried just about all the LEGAL ones out there, no joy.

No bugs here, just moles. The dayum yard is infested with the little basturds.

My yard is filled with them too... any suggestions that REALLY work? I've tried just about all the LEGAL ones out there, no joy.

:yeahthat:
Same here. Front, back, and both sides of the yard is covered with little trails. I feel like I am walking on sand everytime I go outside cause my feet keep sinking in the dirt.

:waitingforsolutions: :popcorn:

my daughter just came home from school and I heard her on the front porch say "whoa" and this guy was out there and freaked her out. He was about 3 1/2 inches long.

No wonder you think that poor little cricket is nasty...you describe your Boxer as "adorable."

Boxers aren't adorable.


Oh now that's just wrong I tell ya! She is with that smooshie little face! Hubby says they are ugly......beauty is in the eye of the beholder
:razz:

What about this creature, anyone ever seen it or know what it is? Took it with my cell phone, sorry if it isn't that great of quality.

What about this creature, anyone ever seen it or know what it is? Took it with my cell phone, sorry if it isn't that great of quality.

Looks like a mayfly but hard to tell from that pic.

Looks like a mayfly but hard to tell from that pic.

Yeah, sorry about that. It was pretty big, seen it at work on the wall. Has a very long tail if you can notice it.

Dead whatever!!! :coffee:

Looks like a mayfly but hard to tell from that pic.

:jameo: Flying Shrimp! http://forums.somd.com/1544964-post19.html