chinook203
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Post by chinook203 on May 21, 2007 22:08:16 GMT -5
I stayed in New Mexico a couple of nights ago in Albiqui. I was outside walking the dog and went to go into the room when I saw this critter. Zeus ran towards it to investigate and I yanked him back thinking it was a..........I don't know. My mom freaked when she saw the picture and couldn't understand why I didn't kill it. I said.......it's 2 inches long, I was scared it would eat my foot! We have NOTHING that looks like this in Missouri. www.northstarcreations.org/images/Picture 021.jpg[/img]
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Post by Condor on May 21, 2007 22:55:36 GMT -5
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Post by joe on May 21, 2007 23:03:26 GMT -5
2 inches long. Ewwwww! Ok, that's off my list of places to go!
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agatemaggot
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Post by agatemaggot on May 21, 2007 23:41:02 GMT -5
Those little guys DO have an intimidating look about em. I can see where a lot of people would hesitate to handle the things. I imagine they would be neat in a terrarium if they did'nt hide underground all the time.
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adrian65
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Post by adrian65 on May 21, 2007 23:47:20 GMT -5
It seems to be a cricket just escaped out of jail Call 911 quick Adrian
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Post by Deleted on May 22, 2007 1:07:25 GMT -5
Stenopelmatus fuscus are taking over the world. We must defeat them with ummm.........rocks?
That is one large cricket.
Nathaniel
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Post by karenfh on May 22, 2007 3:38:15 GMT -5
Actually, that is a cool bug. Non-poisonous is always good! Next time, stick it in a jar or pop bottle (unsquashed), and give it to a 3-5th grade kid. They will forever remember you as the gutsy lady who found that amazing bug. I can vouch for that, as I was the Mom who stuck a 5-inch grasshopper in a mason jar. I had never seen a bright green grasshopper that big, the size of my hand! The 5th grade class kept it all year, and then the high school biology teacher euthanized it (if you can you euthanize a bug?). It is still a speciman in the high school biology lab, and the kids who where there when we caught it, and all THEIR friends, call him Grub, which stands for Green Uber Bug. Go figure.
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adrian65
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Post by adrian65 on May 22, 2007 5:04:28 GMT -5
Wow, Karen, it seems you had a major contribution in discovering new species. That giant bug might be named also "Grasshoperus Karensis" or, shortly, Grak Adrian
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Post by connrock on May 22, 2007 6:02:42 GMT -5
That's a honey of a bug!!
I caught a strange looking beetle (I think) many years ago and still have it in a baby food jar in alcohol! Never did find out what it was!
I got into organic gardening years ago and tried my darnedest to identify the good bugs from the bad ones.Noe an easy task at all.They all look so much alike with only small differences in their appearance I just gave up on it and caught all the slugs I could !
Now there's an ugly dude ya can't mistake for a butterfly!!
connrock Tom
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Post by krazydiamond on May 22, 2007 8:07:47 GMT -5
what an ugly bug! i knew there was a reason i live through winter here. eww!
KD
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Post by akansan on May 22, 2007 8:14:30 GMT -5
So that's what a child-of-the-earth looks like! Around here, the folklore has it that if you see one you'll die. I'm thinking now they mean of fright rather than poison. When we were preparing a new set of flower beds - which means digging about 2-3 feet down to remove all the grass roots (dang bermuda grass!) - we had many, many locals warn us about those. Never saw any, though.
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Post by lonewolfrockhound on May 22, 2007 8:19:47 GMT -5
Haven't you guys ever seen a "potato bug" before? Don't ask me why they call it that I just know what they are. After I saw my first one, I made a point to figure out what the heck it was. it's one ugly bug IMHO. arnica.csustan.edu/photos/animals/Potato_bug_3.jpg
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chinook203
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Post by chinook203 on May 22, 2007 9:16:06 GMT -5
I had never even heard of one before this. Thanks for identifying it for me! I'm glad it wasn't poisonous and glad I didn't kill it. He was evil looking for sure to someone who had never seen anything like it! I'm surprised the pic turned out, it's at night, a yellow porch light and I used the zoom! Sandy
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Post by cina on May 22, 2007 9:25:31 GMT -5
Ummm we have them here and they give a hell of a bite. Last year my son got one stuck on his pant leg it would not let go Steph
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Post by Cher on May 22, 2007 10:16:16 GMT -5
Ok then, I'm with Joe, I'll take NM off my list of places to visit also. They must call them potato bugs because they are the size of a potato. No thanks, I have a hard time visiting my daughter in Iowa because they have wolf spiders the size of houses down there. Ok, maybe not houses but darn near that size. Yuppers KD, we do have that advantage living where we have winter. I am so no a bug person!
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Post by cina on May 22, 2007 10:41:17 GMT -5
Cher Hate to tell you this but we have long hard winters and they still live here And I have to say I am so not a bug person eather don't get me started on spiders! Steph
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Post by Tweetiepy on May 22, 2007 14:06:44 GMT -5
I knew there was a reason we live up in Cold, cold Canada - potato bugs are what the french call ladybugs "bibittes à patates"
If something is that big, I don't want it anywhere near me - went to the drive in last year - very hot night, so we had the windows open & our feet hanging out the windows covered in a blanket because of the darn mosquitos - and this huge bug (looked more like a small bat) landed on the windshield in front of my fact - well with electric windows, I yelled at hubby to start the car, start the car & rolled up the windows
Yeah I am So NOT a bug person either
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Post by krazydiamond on May 22, 2007 14:40:44 GMT -5
altho, i must say we have these little darlings up here and they ain't pretty either!!! this is the Eastern Toe Biter, and they live in farm ponds and such, and YES, they will sting you in the toe! KD
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Post by joe on May 22, 2007 15:24:03 GMT -5
I have never seen either of those bugs and I may live a longer and happier life if I never do!!
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chinook203
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Post by chinook203 on May 22, 2007 15:31:37 GMT -5
If I saw that Toe Biter, I'd just get the gun and shoot that thing! I'd run around screaming and shooting at it. I'm not a spider person........not at all. We have the wolf spiders here, but one thats much worse, it's a water spider. They literally get about 4 inches across. A lake about a 1/2 mile from house, I fish there a lot. The guy has a little wooden floating dock and a john boat. When you step on the dock, your weight makes it go down a bit........and then they appear. Little water spiders, big ones...... You don't want to fall in the water as these suckers skip across the water like it's air. One time, got in the boat, and one had jumped in there, yes - they jump too. I took the oar and just started beating the crap out of the boat, the spider, whatever was in the way of me and the spider to kill it. And then I wished I had a beer. I'm fine with snakes. I rescued a black snake yesterday. By rescued, I mean I saved it before mom could get to it with the shovel. That snake did not want to leave my barn either, it bit the crap out of me. I kept telling it was about to be beheaded, it did'nt believe me. I rescue about one snake per week from my mom.
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