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Syera · Posted: Sun Jun 25, 2006 10:35 pm Post subject: We've Been Invaded!

...But it's just some li'l ol' cricket bugs! Very Happy

...Make that BIG cricket bugs. They're over an inch long... and they're all over the place!

Innit they cute?

When they chirp, they sound just like the cricket from Mulan.
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AladdinsGenie · Posted: Sun Jun 25, 2006 11:39 pm Post subject:

I have never seen crickets that big; just heard of them Laughing

Syera · Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 7:43 am Post subject:

Here's another picture - this time with a ruler for reference...

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Nez · Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 8:18 am Post subject:

You're being invaded by wetas.
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Syera · Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 8:21 am Post subject:

Actually, I think they're Mormon crickets, which aren't really crickets at all, but a relative of the katydid family.

Apparently, they're also pests. Sad

Wetas look a bit different and are native to New Zealand. It'd be a bit of a trick getting them way up here. Wink

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Nez · Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 9:53 am Post subject:

Yeah, I saw a page on wetas and they are some scary-looking bugs.
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DesertBloom92 · Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 12:17 pm Post subject:

intresting still ..."AHH!"..im the best bug person youll ever meet.
so where is this?..once in the last apartment I lived in ..we were invated by KILLER BEES!..not reallly killer bees (i just wanted to say that cuase genie said that ..RoJ)..but they were the yellow jacket bees.My family and I had to go threw a week with bees in the home!

~DB92

Nez · Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 12:27 pm Post subject:

I get nervous around bees and wasps. Used to with spiders, but I've become less so.
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Syera · Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 12:28 pm Post subject:

Yellowjackets are wasps. Wink

Twice I went through several days of yellowjackets in my bedroom. I don't remember if I did this both times, but after getting tired of having them in my room I vacuumed them up.
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Nez · Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 12:38 pm Post subject:

How many were there?
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Janette Morgan · Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 7:40 pm Post subject:

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persian85033 · Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2006 2:30 pm Post subject:

We don't have lots of pests here. Very Happy

The cat finished all the wildlife int eh backyard. We just have pidgeons. I hate them. Can't seem to get rid of them. That and lizards, but I don't mind the lizards.

If only the dog showed the same efficiency in killing the ticks that get on him.
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