GFY Insect experts!... What the fork is this???
 

http://dev.hustler.com/jmk/antbeegrasshopper.jpg

So on Halloween night I see this creepy huge insect next to my car. What the heck is it?

As reference that's the tire of an SUV next to it

The thing had the head of an ant, the body of a bee and the legs of a grasshopper or something....

LMAO!!!!

its a bee....
its a roach...

its fukin creepy is what it is :helpme

Nothing to worry about its a type of Cricket.

it almost looks larval, I wonder if it is immature?

it looks locust-like, maybe nocturnal? very interesting...

problem solved !!!

It's a cricket. I was bit by one of those fuckers once. Didn't get any special powers, though. :(

Its the new insect called Anthopper AlienQ invented. We are still waiting for a press release, but its being spellchecked by a 3rd grader at the moment

Could be huh....

http://www.bentler.us/eastern-washin...d-cricket2.jpg

http://mayhem-chaos.net/photoblog/images/cricket.jpg

i dunno but my mantis would fuck its shit up!

I'd say it's a Female Cricket, They vary in different shapes, and seeing how its a dark place in your garage...They tend to be nocturnal and are often confused with grasshoppers because they have a similar body structure.

its called a potato bug

Effin' cricket man!!!!! :winkwink:

http://www.warwicksu.com/pageassets/...ricketShot.jpg

Looks bloody cool

ding ding ding ding ding... the man is right

http://arnica.csustan.edu/photos/ani...tato_bug_3.jpg

I think we got a winner! :upsidedow

http://arnica.csustan.edu/photos/ani...tato_bug_3.jpg

Ok Jody was faster heh

Oh my haha http://www.potatobugs.com/

LOL @ http://www.potatobugs.com/faq/index.html

thats a potato bug. very common in california.

Can you eat them? :)

Potato bug sushi ... mmmmmh

Yes it is.

cricket.. and at night you can hear them.. lots around here, harmless just annoying.

http://new.wavlist.com/soundfx/014/cricket-2.wav

god bugs creep me out

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh thats awesome

oh gawd, i hate potato bugs. they skeeve me out so bad

Oh buggy thread...

That's the bald fetus of satan

I'll send you some in the mail ;)

I've never seen one of those before - Now I know! YAY!

it's called a jerusalem cricket.

it's not a cricket nor an insect.

i seen a few of those around my house also

Freaky looking bugs

i've been here 3 years and thankfully never seen one
ugly freaky lookin things
yuck

LOL, you're right about it being a Jerusalem Cricket (which are also called potato bugs) but it IS an insect.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem_cricket (AKA potato bug)

Needless to say it was my first........ so can you eat them? I mean doesn't Bear Grylls always eat crickets on his show? LOL

potato bugs give me the creeps ...

OMG, i just friggin died when i read this. LMFAO!

please don't take it there babe, my stomach hurt from laughing and now i might throw up in my mouth :(

This is funny:

Q: I have potato bugs in my vegetable garden. How can I rid myself of these pesky critters?

A: Drench your entire yard with gasoline and set it ablaze. Once the fire has burned itself out and the ground has cooled, cultivate the soil to a depth of seven feet, saturate the area with battery acid and top the surface with gasoline. After a few minutes, most of the surviving potato bugs, now irritated, will burrow up for air. Set the yard on fire again, and let it burn itself out. The remaining bugs should be crisped. Add water. Only then, and only maybe, will you rid yourself of potato bugs.

--from potatobugs.com

Last summer I was cutting my hair in the bathroom, and walked to the kitchen down my long hall to get the broom. Walking back I saw what i thought was a clump of hair that must have fallen off my shoulders while getting the broom... picked it up and it started to vibrate! it was one of those creepy fuckers. I screamed like a woman and started smacking it with the broom. fucker just wouldn't die. I ended up taking him out to the yard with a dustpan... the whole time he was still trying to get me, even though he was badly disfigured from the broom attack. I set him in the yard and about 30 minutes later I saw a bird fly off with him. I hate those fucking bugs.

Compare the potato bug to this also..
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi..._cricket02.jpg

This is a mole cricket. They look similar.

The mole cricket is very slow though. Doesn't really hop. Just kinda lazily walks around. They're pretty funny to watch.

whoever said it was harmless is wrong. Every year close to 8000 people die from the lethal bite of a potato bug. They can eat your face off.

interesting reading the wikipedia on that.... didn't realize that "bug" was a scientific name and there was such a thing as a "true bug" as opposed to an untrue one I guess

here I thought all insectoids were bugs, but I guess not

First time you seen a cricket?

When I was a kid my father used to take two of those things and put them in a coffee can, watch them fight, then put the can on the stove burner turn on the flame and watch them jump around and burn.

yeah, I had that type of childhood. :helpme

They are disgusting.. as if someone was playing when creating them, took a little bit of this and a little bit of that.. hm.