CLOSED: Bug Resembling a Cricket/Roach Hybrid :o)

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Ladyborg Magnolia, TX(Zone 8b) Jun 12, 2008

What the HECK is this bug I found this morning? It appears to have cricket hind legs (and it does jump like a cricket), but the body looks like a roach or ant!

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Ladyborg Magnolia, TX(Zone 8b) Jun 12, 2008

Here's another photo. Can anyone tell me what this is?????

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suunto Sinks Grove, WV Jun 12, 2008

This could be a nymph of a handsome/red-headed bush cricket (also known as sword-tail crickets or trigs) in the genus Phyllopalpus - se http://buzz.ifas.ufl.edu/641pj.htm and http://davesgarden.com/guides/bf/go/679/
Bush crickets sometimes are placed in the family Trigonidiidae; at other times, in the subfamily Trigonidiinae in the families Tettigoniidae or Gryllidae.

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Ladyborg Magnolia, TX(Zone 8b) Jun 12, 2008

Ah THANKS!!!!!!!!!!! That's it exactly!

Not exactly the "3 pipe problem" I thought it was eh?!? ;o)

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