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9/9/2007 2:52:05 PM EDT
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9/9/2007 2:53:21 PM EDT
[#1]
It is a Jerusalem cricket- often called potato bug.
9/9/2007 4:38:37 PM EDT
[#2]
Thanks for the info.
9/9/2007 4:41:11 PM EDT
[#3]
What happened to the dog ?
9/9/2007 4:41:16 PM EDT
[#4]
Sabre Toothed Panty Cricket. Go see a doctor asap.
9/9/2007 4:43:30 PM EDT
[#5]

Quoted:
It is a Jerusalem cricket- often called potato bug.

always knew them as potato bugs... Jerusalem cricket huh? cool to know.

I'll have to start testing you with pictures of these weird ass bugs here in Okinawa. I have a walking stick that likes to chill outside my door.
9/9/2007 4:43:43 PM EDT
[#6]
Oh boy...

It's the dreaded Dorsilectus Illusivai.

I give you 2 days max.

Dibs on your guns and ammo.

9/9/2007 4:45:39 PM EDT
[#7]
Looks like a wasp fucked an ant.
9/9/2007 4:49:45 PM EDT
[#8]
THEM !
For the old ones here.
9/9/2007 4:51:55 PM EDT
[#9]

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Looks like a wasp fucked an ant.


+1

I've never seen a potato bug. Do they bite?
9/9/2007 4:53:20 PM EDT
[#10]
My friend saw one, two days later...bam....dead.
9/9/2007 4:54:16 PM EDT
[#11]

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Sabre Toothed Panty Cricket. Go see a doctor asap.


that experience talkin?

9/9/2007 4:59:03 PM EDT
[#12]

Quoted:
Sabre Toothed Panty Cricket. Go see a doctor asap.


"potato bug"  so i guess they are a problem on potato farms.
9/9/2007 4:59:28 PM EDT
[#13]

Quoted:

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Sabre Toothed Panty Cricket. Go see a doctor asap.


that experience talkin?




Heck yeah!  One of those things bit me several years ago a I was dead before morning!
9/9/2007 5:08:00 PM EDT
[#14]
They used to be all over the flight line at NAS Point Mugu in the summer after they cut the fields next to the runways.

We would catch them, tie a copper safety tie wire leash to them and let them fight it out.
9/9/2007 6:29:28 PM EDT
[#15]

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What happened to the dog ?


She's still here, she just uses an inside water bowl now. Lazy beast, lol.



9/10/2007 8:30:13 PM EDT
[#16]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Looks like a wasp fucked an ant.


+1

I've never seen a potato bug. Do they bite?


Yep.
9/10/2007 8:32:01 PM EDT
[#17]


That is my only suggestion.
9/10/2007 8:35:24 PM EDT
[#18]

Quoted:
THEM !
For the old ones here.


+1

Im only 32 but there was late night TV as a child


9/10/2007 8:43:55 PM EDT
[#19]

Quoted:

Quoted:
THEM !
For the old ones here.


+1

Im only 32 but there was late night TV as a child


i2.tinypic.com/4tu7q0m.jpg


I saw the movie in the theater with a blond James Arness, but I never saw that poster!  
9/10/2007 8:47:02 PM EDT
[#20]

Quoted:
It is a Jerusalem cricket- often called potato bug.



are they also called "mole crickets"?

I think that is what my grandfather called them
9/10/2007 8:52:24 PM EDT
[#21]

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That is my only suggestion.


That was my first reaction too...
9/10/2007 8:53:38 PM EDT
[#22]

Quoted:

Quoted:
It is a Jerusalem cricket- often called potato bug.



are they also called "mole crickets"?

I think that is what my grandfather called them


I don't know, but that seems as good a name as any.  They are usually underground and you'll occasionally run across one while digging.  You can find them under rocks too.  Ugly bastards.
9/10/2007 9:08:33 PM EDT
[#23]
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

www.potatobugs.com/faq/index.html
9/10/2007 9:16:39 PM EDT
[#24]
I always thought they were just an underdeveloped cricket.

This is what I call a potato bug, but I guess I should have been calling them "pill bugs".

9/10/2007 9:21:30 PM EDT
[#25]
LOL, that website is hilarious.  Those are called roly-poly's too.  Then there are the ones who look similar that don't roll up that are called sow bugs.  I have heard them both called potato bugs.