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    Angry a THING in my bedroom!!!

    Turns out, it's a spider, or camelback, or cave... cricket!!!! Tried to catch it or kill it, but noooo.... my wonderful cat just has to chase it and lose it... right under my bed!

    Just a cricket? HELL NO, these things are DISGUSTING!!! Plus...

    "Another unique feature of thiscricket is that they jump randomly and are morelikely to jump at you than away from you. It is believed this is due to how they see. Their visionis such that it appears to them they are movingaway from it's predator but in fact they are movingtowards it. Some people speculate this has leadthe species to appear to be attacking which inturn chases away would-be predators. Whatever thereason, keep in mind they cannot bite or sting.Even still, having a large unusual insect jumpingat you will probably feel disconcerting." http://www.bugspray.com/catalog/products/page421.html


    ^ Disconcerting? You don't say!!!

    And about damn life size, too! Only the one I saw was... meatier...


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    A) No, I wasn't in your bedroom!

    B) Take a shoe, newspaper, chair, dresser, TV, or somesuch and hit it with that.. problem solved!

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    I HAATE those things!!! Ugggh!
    If your cat has its eyes on the cricket, more than like she will get it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by thing View Post
    A) No, I wasn't in your bedroom!

    B) Take a shoe, newspaper, chair, dresser, TV, or somesuch and hit it with that.. problem solved!
    A) Are you.... sure?

    B) I WOULD have done that... but no way in HELL am I crawling under my bed to search for the thing.
    Apparently, it targets the hair as a key landing spot, from which it spasms out more and most likely tried to make it's way down the back of your shirt.
    No, sir. I do not like it.

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    Save gas, ride a cave cricket!

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    Get some roach/spider killing spray and attack it. Keep the spray close by from then on lol.

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    ahhh i get those things around here too! ick ick ick.

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    ^ Wouldn't that be harmful to my cat, though? I'm paranoid with cleaners around him. He's my baby.... his stupid ass was supposed to kill the thing, anyways, though!

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    Well, spray the mini monster with the killer and just make sure your kitty doesn't go around that spot for a few minutes. I use it all the time for spiders and roaches in my apt, and I've never had a problem with them getting sick from it.

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    Trust me, your cat will get it. I watched my baby go from being mildly amused by a cricket to tearing off its head and eating it. If your baby is going to eat it, keep the pesticides away.

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    Oh man I got goosebumps!!!!

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    My tarantula would love that thing.



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    Yikes! If I ever saw something like that in real life, I'd do some serious screaming.
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    Let the cat kill it! My grandparents used to get those in their house when I was little and I would scream like a blue monkey. I'm not afraid of bugs, except roaches; spiders and regular crickets don't bother me at all. But those fucking camelback crickets are disgusting for some reason. My grandfather catches them and lets them go outside. I'm so lame, whenever I visit my grandparents in the fall I will occasionally find one, and my 28-year-old tough ass shrieks for my elderly grandfather to come get the damn cricket.

    I love regular crickets, actually. But ugh, I hate these fuckers.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yekhefah View Post
    and my 28-year-old tough ass shrieks for my elderly grandfather to come get the damn cricket.
    I had the best mental picture!
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    Oh god i hate THINGS!!! I wish I knew wtf it was I found the other day so I could show a picture of it....it was like a centipede...but with longer legs and weird spikes coming off of it...and long whiskers...that was hella fucked up.
    I'd definatly be sending my cat to hunt down that mutant cricket thing...


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    these things are the shit. they catch all kinds of bugs put around water heaters and other out of the way places. they have ones that are closed with holes in the sides so that pets wont get stuck to them.
    Last edited by thefrog; 08-24-2007 at 05:58 AM.

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    I'd hate to be that bug. Seriously, it might scare some predators away, but some will take advantage of it thinking it's jumping away when it's really jumping towards the predator and -LUNCH!

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    Yeah, looking at that pic again, the one I found was definitely..... worse. It seemed a bit hairier and more compact and like I said, just meatier.

    I haven't seen it again yet today, so...

    Last night that damn cricket had me, clad in only (unmatching) boybeater, undies, and big ugly socks, with an unused mop, standing up on a stool poking at things in my room trying to eg the Thing out. Squirming and making a fuss while doing so!

    ^Yekhefah I actually like spiders, and most bug don't scare me, actually this one was slightly fascinating (albeit absolutely revolting) until it starting jumping. So this joins moths and big ol' southern cockroaches as my new insect enemy!

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    Oh and Taylorilla- I know what you're talking about! What the hell was nature THINKING!?!

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    Quote Originally Posted by nekogirl View Post

    Last night that damn cricket had me, clad in only (unmatching) boybeater, undies, and big ugly socks, with an unused mop, standing up on a stool poking at things in my room trying to eg the Thing out. Squirming and making a fuss while doing so!
    Hmmm... on second thought, we might have met before...

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    EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW.

    that picture freaked me the HELL out!

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    This whole thread is freaking me out!!! Hairy/ meaty crickets...centipedes with longer legs and spikes...ew ew ew ew ew

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    Gross!!!!

    I cannot stand bugs at all. They give me the heebie-jeebies. I don't know what I'd do if i came across a bug like that...I'm sure I'd be screaming like a small child though.
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    Oh, and the CENTIPEDE? It's a HOUSE CENTIPEDE:



    Apparently, they are useful to have around your home... eh. See Wikipedia: House Centipede for information and more looooovely photos!

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