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silverline122 Garden Grove, CA Aug 26, 2008

I found it crawling around in my backyard but it looks like some sort of hybrid grasshopper/bee/spider...
Anybody ever seen one?

[img]http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t271/silverline122/Weird%20Bug/DSC09043.jpg[/img]
[img]http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t271/silverline122/Weird%20Bug/DSC09046.jpg[/img]
[img]http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t271/silverline122/Weird%20Bug/DSC09047.jpg[/img]
[img]http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t271/silverline122/Weird%20Bug/DSC09049.jpg[/img]

video clip here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HxEMBobvPY

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claypa West Pottsgrove, PA(Zone 6b) Aug 26, 2008

It's a mole cricket, in the family Gryllotalpidae. They're supposed to exist here, but I've only seen them in California

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suunto Sinks Grove, WV Aug 26, 2008

Are you sure, claypa? This looks more like the underside of a Jerusalem cricket (Stenopelmatidae) - see http://www.nmpest.com/images/ChldEth50.JPG

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claypa West Pottsgrove, PA(Zone 6b) Aug 26, 2008

haha... No...

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ZZsBabiez Lodi, CA(Zone 9b) Aug 26, 2008

uuugh that is horrible. Those things are so scary to dig up. I don't know the proper name, but I can tell you they are absolutely the ugliest things ever.. don't let one get on you.. they hang on so tight, it will give you nighmares!

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sallyg Anne Arundel,, MD(Zone 7b) Aug 27, 2008

I've lived my whole life in MD and never saw a real live mole cricket until last year, but we did. Here was ours from above (its back)

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