It's a spricket!!

[Lamb]

I was on the phone earlier with my daughter who said they had a spricket in the house. I had no idea what that was. It's a spider cricket (also has other names).

Have you seen these before?

 

[psalms 91]

lol nobut when I do I will shut the spricket off

 

[ImaginaryDay2]

I'm sure it does have other names...

 

[hotrhymez]

Creepy!

Never heard of them..they would be squished in my house though...insects freak me out.

Cute name though..

 

[MoreCoffee]

I was on the phone earlier with my daughter who said they had a spricket in the house. I had no idea what that was. It's a spider cricket (also has other names).

Have you seen these before?

Yes, I have seen them before but they are insects not spiders.

 

[Lamb]

Yes, I have seen them before but they are insects not spiders.

I know. But one of the names given to them is spider cricket.

 

[tango]

I was on the phone earlier with my daughter who said they had a spricket in the house. I had no idea what that was. It's a spider cricket (also has other names).

Have you seen these before?

Looks like something I found in the house years ago. I saw a weird bug on the carpet but when I went to catch it, it moved much faster than I expected and I missed. So I went for it again and that time realised that the way it moved so fast was that it jumped. I had no idea what it was but eventually squashed it.

Later I found out one of our neighbors had an exotic pet that ate crickets and some escaped when she dropped a box of them. We rounded up and killed four or five of them before we figured where they were coming from. The neighbor offered us traps to help get rid of them but by then we'd already killed them all and hadn't seen any for a week.

 

[Cassia]

I was on the phone earlier with my daughter who said they had a spricket in the house. I had no idea what that was. It's a spider cricket (also has other names).

Have you seen these before?

The jpg says it's a camel cricket. It looks a bit like a long legged stink bug.

 

[Lamb]

Yes, the picture is labeled that because that bug has a few other names

We have stink bugs here where I live. They have a diamond shaped back.

 

[Cassia]

Yes, the picture is labeled that because that bug has a few other names

We have stink bugs here where I live. They have a diamond shaped back.

We get them a lot in the interior and they do have a diamond shaped back, that's right.

 

[IACOBVS]

I was on the phone earlier with my daughter who said they had a spricket in the house. I had no idea what that was. It's a spider cricket (also has other names).

Have you seen these before?

No, I've not seen one before, but it displays very interesting convergent evolution.

 

[Lamb]

We get them a lot in the interior and they do have a diamond shaped back, that's right.

We used to get stink bugs a lot in the house when we first moved in but then I caulked every single window and doorway and now we have none! Yay. I don't like those things. When my dog was alive she didn't like their smell either

 

[kiwimac]

We have them here in NZ, we call them 'cave wetas.'

From Te Ara Encyclopedia:

Cave wētā
The cave wētā group is the most diverse. There are over 50 species ranging from small bush wētā only a few centimetres long to some Gymnoplectron species that have leg spans of up to 40 centimetres (with bodies only about 2.5 centimetres long).

They can be distinguished from other types of wētā by their antennae, which virtually touch in the middle of the head, and by their feet, which lack gripping pads. Cave wētā do not form harems like tree wētā, but they often gather (sometimes in large numbers if there is space) in dark, damp shelters by day. At night they forage in the bush, feeding on lichens, fungi and dead organic matter, including seabird carcasses.

https://teara.govt.nz/en/weta/page-3

See the following site for pictures

 

[Imalive]

Yes, I have seen them before but they are insects not spiders.

Oh. Then he's good. I always first count the legs before I decide I'm gonna scream or not.
My ex once thought our house was on fire. That was a real one.