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Old 09/14/13, 12:33 AM
 
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What could this be ???
http://www.city-data.com/forum/attac...nsect-bug2.jpg

said to be about 2 inches long
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Old 09/14/13, 04:16 AM
 
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Could be someone's playing with photoshop.

I like the mole paws. Nice touch.
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Old 09/14/13, 04:30 AM
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Looks like some kind of mole cricket to me. We have them here in FL; they look like they are made from spare parts.
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Old 09/14/13, 04:33 AM
 
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It's real, a nasty little critter called a Mole Cricket, Scapteriscus borellia Giglio-Tos.
Brighton likes this.
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Old 09/14/13, 05:28 AM
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Egads and I thought camel crickets were creepy.

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Old 09/14/13, 05:43 AM
 
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That's cool looking. Don't have them around here.
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Old 09/14/13, 05:50 AM
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We call them mole crickets
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Old 09/14/13, 03:49 PM
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Seriously!?! You mean these really exist!?! CREEPY..............and here I thought potato bugs were bad!!!!
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Old 09/14/13, 05:08 PM
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Yep, Mole Cricket!

They can did like you wouldn't believe!

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Old 09/14/13, 05:27 PM
 
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You Missouri and North Carolina folks seem to know about them.
I have spent a little time in NC but I have spent a LOT of time in MO and I sure have never seen anything like that critter.
What eats them?
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Old 09/14/13, 05:42 PM
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That is a mole cricket ! They feed on grasses and roots and can really devour a nice florida lawn during the night. They are great diggers and they even make a loud chirp at night....My cat has dug them up early in the morning. They are really ugly...
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Old 09/14/13, 06:07 PM
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here's a wealth of info on them..blech

http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/...e_crickets.htm
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Old 09/14/13, 06:16 PM
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Ha! I was just showing my great niece how to catch them yesterday. She's 4 and had never seen one. We were walking and I saw the hole. You poke a grass stalk down the hole, wait til they start pushing it up, then right when they get close to the top you give it a little yank They make great fish bait too.
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Old 09/14/13, 06:24 PM
 
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Don't think it will ever sell car insurance.

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Old 09/14/13, 08:22 PM
 
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Mole Crickets, You want some? I'll send them first class.
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