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What insect is this?

SaltBoy

SaltBoy

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While mowing the lawn last week, I noticed this cool little bug decided to crawl on the lawnmower. I'd NEVER seen a bug like this one before, so I decided to pick it up and play with it for a little while. This little guy was not only really cool looking, but it had the most interesting movement. When it walked or looked around around, it looked like it was stretching its legs.

I know the picture isn't the best, but I think it gives you a good idea of what it's like. Anybody know what this is?
 
Originally posted by: oniq
Woah that looks pretty cool.. take some better pics
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Alas, it's gone. My wife took the picture and then wanted it away from her for good. I can understand cockroaches and such, but this one was harmless... 😕
 
It's legs look like mantis legs but it's body doesn't. I don't have a clue... It is cool though. Did it try to bite you?
 
Originally posted by: SaltBoy
Originally posted by: oniq
Woah that looks pretty cool.. take some better pics
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Alas, it's gone. My wife took the picture and then wanted it away from her for good. I can understand cockroaches and such, but this one was harmless... 😕
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so you think.
it has already layed its eggs under your skin and are now on your way to hatching inside your brain
 
Originally posted by: gistech1978
Originally posted by: SaltBoy
Originally posted by: oniq
Woah that looks pretty cool.. take some better pics
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Alas, it's gone. My wife took the picture and then wanted it away from her for good. I can understand cockroaches and such, but this one was harmless... 😕
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so you think.
it has already layed its eggs under your skin and are now on your way to hatching inside your brain
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*My sources can confirm this*:Q
 
We called them "sexy bugs" as kids. The reason is because when they mate they join at the behind, facing away from each other, and stay like that for a good long time. They were all around one of the trees at my junior high. (secondary school actually, K-8)

Not sure what the actual name is. If I was at home I could look it up in the insect guide I have.
 
Originally posted by: Antoneo
Is it me or does that thing have seven legs? Took one away did you?
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I see where you're coming from, but no, it has six legs, plus a pair of long antenna. The picture is hiding one of the antenna, due to the angle that it was taken.
 
Originally posted by: yukichigai
We called them "sexy bugs" as kids. The reason is because when they mate they join at the behind, facing away from each other, and stay like that for a good long time. They were all around one of the trees at my junior high. (secondary school actually, K-8)

Not sure what the actual name is. If I was at home I could look it up in the insect guide I have.
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Nope, these aren't love bugs. We get plenty of those down in houston, and this one is much different. The love bugs I know about fly, whereas this one is limited to crawling around.
 
Originally posted by: SaltBoy
Originally posted by: yukichigai
We called them "sexy bugs" as kids. The reason is because when they mate they join at the behind, facing away from each other, and stay like that for a good long time. They were all around one of the trees at my junior high. (secondary school actually, K-8)

Not sure what the actual name is. If I was at home I could look it up in the insect guide I have.
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Nope, these aren't love bugs. We get plenty of those down in houston, and this one is much different. The love bugs I know about fly, whereas this one is limited to crawling around.
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Hrm... you're sure it can't fly? K...

Now I can't tell from the pictures, but does it sort of look like a cricket in a vague sense? And also like a spider? We used to get those things in the old house by the river all the time, and as far as we could discern they weren't in any section of the Audibon(sp?) Society Insect Guide. We just called them Spider-Crickets, or Spickets.

If you find another take a bunch of pics from all sorts of angles.
 
I've never been able to figure out what species these are, but they're some kind of asassin bug. The have a long tube for a mouth. They snare other insects and use the tube to drink their juices. I think the little black ones are just the juveniles of some other species. There are little clear ones that look exactly the same too.
 
Haven't seen anything like him before and I used to collect bugs as kids.




Any chance you live near a nuclear reactor?
 
Originally posted by: lirion
I've never been able to figure out what species these are, but they're some kind of asassin bug. The have a long tube for a mouth. They snare other insects and use the tube to drink their juices. I think the little black ones are just the juveniles of some other species. There are little clear ones that look exactly the same too.
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That pic looks NOTHING like an assasin bug.
 
Originally posted by: Shanti
Originally posted by: lirion
I've never been able to figure out what species these are, but they're some kind of asassin bug. The have a long tube for a mouth. They snare other insects and use the tube to drink their juices. I think the little black ones are just the juveniles of some other species. There are little clear ones that look exactly the same too.
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That pic looks NOTHING like an assasin bug.
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Of course it does. There are over 3000 species of asassin bugs.
 
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