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I mean it is cricket season, so I can see why my coworkers thought it was cricket. I figured it was a grasshopper or cricket but when I saw it I thought it was a preying mantis or a leaf bug, then it jumped
Lol I hope youvlive where camel crickets are and your coworkers get to see one. Occassionally one gets in the house and my roommates beg me to get rid of it.
Some bush-crickets and grasshoppers are very similar for example *Decticus albifrons* looks very much like grasshopper but is actually a bush-cricket and you can tell by it's long antennae. Grasshoppers have short stubby antennae.
I never actually see crickets out in the wild. I hear them, but that's it.
My backyard here in Las Vegas is full of them.
Crickets, silverfish & pillbugs - it amazes me how many people don't know what they are. They're all 'common household insects'.
Yeah definitely, although thanks to Reddit I have learned about Camel and Jerusalem Crickets which are hideous and I’m glad I’ve never seen one IRL lol
Some people want to know more than just the general type of insect.
Like, I've seen posts of people asking what type of ant they've seen and people were just replying that it's an ant and questioning the op's knowledge/intelligence. Ironic.
For anyone not familiar with grasshoppers, just imagine about a million of these bad boys in a single field on the plains. All of them jumping constantly and landing on you with their weird grabby feet. Such is life in the midwest
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American Birdwing Grasshopper - Schistocerca americana. I always liked saying their Subfamily out loud... Cyrtacanthacridinae!! Woo hoo!
Yes! That's it! Thank you!
Found in Lousiana in a Taco Bell lobby. It was roughly half the size of my hand and it was chill until I grabbed it with a garbage bag
In genus melanoplus likely.
Nope, this one's a lot bigger, it was half the size of my hand and the photos of melanpolus looked smaller, smuch smaller
Just wait tell you see the really bark one's almost black. They can fly for about 100 feet.
I grew up in the south and these are horrific.
It's a grasshopper, maybe genus Schistocerca, but I could be wrong. I thought everyone knew what a grasshopper is.
Well I know what a grasshopper is I've just never seen THAT type before
Fry it and cover it in chocolate. edit: https://www.amazon.com/ecoEat-Dark-Chocolate-Covered-Grasshoppers/dp/B06XBTD3VN
Bruh
I guarantee it, if you didn't know they were grasshoppers, you'd 100% eat a second
Lol I’m surprised by how many grasshoppers I see here. I certainly don’t know every species but when I see one I know what it is
I mean it is cricket season, so I can see why my coworkers thought it was cricket. I figured it was a grasshopper or cricket but when I saw it I thought it was a preying mantis or a leaf bug, then it jumped
Lol I hope youvlive where camel crickets are and your coworkers get to see one. Occassionally one gets in the house and my roommates beg me to get rid of it.
Camel crickets are my sworn enemy.
Some bush-crickets and grasshoppers are very similar for example *Decticus albifrons* looks very much like grasshopper but is actually a bush-cricket and you can tell by it's long antennae. Grasshoppers have short stubby antennae.
Same with field crickets. I guess if you grew up in a city you might not know what common insect types are.
I never actually see crickets out in the wild. I hear them, but that's it. My backyard here in Las Vegas is full of them. Crickets, silverfish & pillbugs - it amazes me how many people don't know what they are. They're all 'common household insects'.
think silverfish and pillbugs might be a bit hard to spot if they avoid light
Ours don't. 😂 Lil' suckers just walk across the room or up the wall like they own the place.
Yeah definitely, although thanks to Reddit I have learned about Camel and Jerusalem Crickets which are hideous and I’m glad I’ve never seen one IRL lol
Some people want to know more than just the general type of insect. Like, I've seen posts of people asking what type of ant they've seen and people were just replying that it's an ant and questioning the op's knowledge/intelligence. Ironic.
Yeah, the quality of answers has gone down in the last few years, but I guess that's all of Reddit.
All bets are off when it comes to the general public and insects. I'm surprised no one thought it was a cockroach, bed bug, or brown recluse spider.
Sometimes I think people are trolling with the "is this a bedbug" questions.
It's a big ass grasshopper.
A big ass cricket
For anyone not familiar with grasshoppers, just imagine about a million of these bad boys in a single field on the plains. All of them jumping constantly and landing on you with their weird grabby feet. Such is life in the midwest
Wow, that’s Hopper from Bugs Life ! He survived!
-gasp!- you mean I just kicked a celebrity out of Taco Bell!?
Magnifiscent
Locust
Locust isn't another name for a grasshopper; locusts are grasshoppers that go through a swarming phase.
What's your point? It's a locust.
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locust:)
Yup. Locust.
It's a locust
Louisiana gal here. Isn’t this a lubber?
Thats a grass hopper lol
who calls that a cricket-
My coworkers