Question
Q: What in the name of holy hell is this thing?
Name: Unknown
Type: Insect
Size: Approximately 2"
Stinger: Yes, large
Location: Progreso, MX
Flight: Unknown, further data not desired
Speed: Slow moving
Strength: Survived Initial Cinderblock Offense
General Appearance: 70% scary, 100% fugly
Status: Deceased, with great prejudice
Any Yucatecan wildlife experts care to fill in the blanks for us?
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The offender appears to be a cave or camel cricket. They are usually found in damp dark areas, and they are completely harmless.
However, they can be alarming as they sometimes defend themselves by jumping at you.
Posted by: Tim | February 23, 2007 08:33 AM
Or, it looks amazingly like a potato bug, also terrifically gross.
Sometimes Nature should just keep to itself.
Love you, not so crazy about the bug.
Posted by: Mom | February 23, 2007 08:39 AM
And that barb-looking thing on the back? Not for stinging?
Posted by: Malcolm | February 23, 2007 11:09 AM
Hey Tim, thanks for the expert advice. I am really not stoked on this horrid bug, but I am happy to have a name for it.
Posted by: jillian | February 23, 2007 11:19 AM
Ewww....have I mentioned how I hate bugs. That one looks like it could do some real damage. Even if it didn't hurt you, you could probably hurt yourself getting away from it!! Take care!!
Posted by: Pam | February 23, 2007 11:35 AM
Ew. We had camel crickets under the house when I was a kid in NC. They were not THAT big, but you're probably warmer and damper down there. My cat always liked to eat them which is why we nicknamed him "Cricket-breath."
Posted by: Allie | February 23, 2007 02:40 PM
The barb thing is for laying eggs...it might have been a mom.
Posted by: Tim | February 25, 2007 10:58 PM
And you killed it!!!
Posted by: Mom | February 26, 2007 01:16 PM
Cave Cricket. They lived throughout my house in ATL in a major way. At first I decided they were brown recluse spiders and I was going to die a horrible death, but they weren't. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_Recluse_Spider
speaking of, how are la cucarachas down there?
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