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TENroaches
06-23-2010, 01:19 AM
I found it in the bathroom in the basement of my house. I tried using a guide online to no avail.

http://i.imgur.com/3EAlzh.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/7mS2Bh.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/8B5Gsh.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/cY66oh.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/QPBwSh.jpg

Any help at all is appreciated.
SirKristoff
06-23-2010, 01:54 AM
looks like a baby cricket?
swords
06-23-2010, 02:38 AM
We have a winner! :D

Myrmecophilus pergandei The Eastern Ant Cricket. Kind of a neat looking species
http://bugguide.net/node/view/180282


Another good bug ID site is:
http://www.whatsthatbug.com/
TENroaches
06-23-2010, 09:24 AM
We have a winner! :D

Myrmecophilus pergandei The Eastern Ant Cricket. Kind of a neat looking species
http://bugguide.net/node/view/180282


Another good bug ID site is:
http://www.whatsthatbug.com/

Wow! Thanks!!
larry
06-23-2010, 12:53 PM
That thing looks pretty cool, hope you didn't feed it to your plants!
TENroaches
06-23-2010, 01:00 PM
Nah, the only bugs I catch and feed to anything are ants in the house go to my nep. I'm debating putting my nep outside under the translucent table on the deck, so it can get more bugs, but I'm afraid it might fry the leaves. :-( My nep lives in a south-facing glass block window in my house now.
nightsky
06-23-2010, 06:13 PM
That is an unusual looking cricket. Looks like it grew in a gravity rich environment such as Jupiter. It's so squat and stubby! But I hate crickets so into a pitcher it would go anyway.
Nepfreak
06-23-2010, 06:17 PM
Looks like it's trying to confuse the back and the front so predators won't be able to tell which end they're attacking!
Timmy
06-23-2010, 06:57 PM
And it's female.
IronTom
06-23-2010, 07:07 PM
Not to hijack the thread, but since everyone has there bug-identifying caps on...

A spider found on my S. Judith Hindle...
http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn185/voodootiger/P1000431Medium.jpg

http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn185/voodootiger/P1000437Medium.jpg

Another crawly thing found crawling about one of my Datura Metel

http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn185/voodootiger/P1000145Medium.jpg

Another of the plant he was on, just because it smells so good.

http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn185/voodootiger/P1000027Medium.jpg
kulamauiman
06-23-2010, 07:09 PM
lynx spider and milkweed bug?

bug hard to say for sure. I can't count the simple eyes. or look for scent glands on the underside of abdomen
Presto
06-24-2010, 08:43 AM
I agree that it looks like a milkweed bug. Boxelder bugs look very similar, but have less orange coloration.
larry
06-24-2010, 09:02 AM
The spider is a green lynx spider, they are so awesome.