SC Camel Crickets

[Granny Heeney]

I did a websearch for what Marie and I have been calling a "spicket"--a crawlie that looks like a spider, but your brain belatedly identifies it as a cricket just as your shoe slams down on it. They can be quite large, the spread of their legs can be as wide as the width of your hand, but the one I caught last night was as big as your first thumb joint.

After bellering like a calf at a new gate when it jumped past me in the bedroom, I caught it and took it to His Majesty's couch, thinking he might like an evening snack. The girls outside LOVE crickets. 9 Volt took one look, shrieked like a girl and bolted to the other end of the couch.

"What did you do to him?" said Hubby. "I tried to give him a cricket, he hiked up his skirts, screamed 'BUG!' and took off!" So I tucked it into the chick's tub (chick's current name is Cricket, so kinda funny), s/he spotted it this morning, leaped on it, slammed it into the floor a few times to kill it, then ate it. Awww, that's my girl! Er, boy! Whatever! LOL

In a dim room, that looks like a spider, BELIEVE me. I have flattened many.

 

[Baymule]

My crickets look like the traditional cricket. Whut the crapola is THAT?

 

[Rammy]

My crickets look like the traditional cricket. Whut the crapola is THAT?

X2!

 

[secuono]

They live in dark, moist areas. Like my past house's garage or current house's cellar.
Ours aren't stripped like that, though.

 

[Granny Heeney]

My crickets look like the traditional cricket. Whut the crapola is THAT?

Seriously, I'm used to the cute little black ones up in Illinois--the only thing creepier is those gnarly Jerusalem crickets! WTHeck! LOL

 

[Granny Heeney]

Lived for 2 yrs in Cal, was out for an evening stroll in the pretty, well-lit parking lots of my new apartment complex and saw something the size of a Snickers in the blowing autumn leaves. I walked toward it and when I got close, the blasted thing LEAPED at me! It hit my leg like someone'd thrown a rock, and this was what I glimpsed as I ran home screaming: (LOL)

That wasn't the only one that leaped at me, the same thing happened on a nature trail about a week later and I vowed I'd never take a walk in California again I checked the interwebz and was amazed when they called it a cricket. No! That is a horrifying abomination! THIS is a cricket! ;D

 

[Baymule]

That's a cricket after aliens abducted it, did experiments and returned it to California. LOL LOL

 

[Rammy]

They will suck your brains out. Beware!

 

[Baymule]

They will suck your brains out. Beware!

Brang 'em on! Ah ain't askerd!! My brain sliding down a razor blade would look like a BB rollin' down a 12 lane freeway!

 

[Granny Heeney]

Brang 'em on! Ah ain't askerd!! My brain sliding down a razor blade would look like a BB rollin' down a 12 lane freeway!