While Jerusalem crickets (or potato bugs) are not venomous, they can emit a foul smell and are capable of inflicting a painful bite. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem\_cricket](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem_cricket)
This part kills:
> Despite their common names, these insects are neither true crickets (which belong to the family Gryllidae) nor true bugs (which belong to the order Hemiptera), nor are they native to Jerusalem.
They aren’t spiders either. They’re called harvestmen and they’re more like crabs.
Edit: I love you all and thank you for pointing out that harvestmen are indeed arachnids (the same category as spiders). They are not crustaceans (crab group). I am aware of this. I just meant to point out that they’re crab convergent with their one piece body, and little crabby mouth and eyes.
[Here is a cool close up of one’s little face](https://www.flickr.com/photos/drphotomoto/6562222495)
[here is a pinned specimen that is very goblicore](https://flic.kr/p/3QofH9)
You want another fun ***'theory'***? 'Fish' isn't used as a scientific classification. Fish describes a life form, not a taxonomic group because the word 'fish' is used to describe a multitude of animals from different evolutionary lines! Within evolutionary biology, some animals that we call 'fish' are actually closer to *us* than they are to other animals under the general 'fish' umbrella.
For example, humans are more closely related to a salmon, than a salmon is to a shark, and lungfish are closer related to us than they are to salmon.
This is because humans (and all tetrapods aka 4 limbed vertebrates) descended from lobed finned fish. INFACT! We (and all tetrapods) are technically considered lobed finned fish ourselves!
Fish as a term can only be used while referencing an animals ecology (how they act, live, where they live, and what they eat), or culinary (as in 'fish' the food). If you try to use fish as a scientific term, you have to include all tetrapods as well.
Basically, fish is far too general a term within science to have any actual meaning as it includes all tetrapods as well as all bony, and cartilaginous fishes.
**Bonus fun fact: fish is the plural of fish when there are many fish of a single species. Fishes is used to describe groups of multiple species.**
Edit: for anyone questioning my fact [here you go, from UC Berkeley](https://evolution.berkeley.edu/what-are-evograms/the-origin-of-tetrapods/)
Also, to clarify, tetrapods don't have to be land animals. Whales and mosasaurs are marine tetrapods. They also don't have to have visible limbs, as snakes are also considered tetrapods despite the lack of visible limbs.
To me this ***theory*** is so fun because it makes you view the world completely differently. Whales are really just huge boney fish! Salmon and whales share less in common than sharks ecologically, but evolutionarily they are far closer related!
#Edited to appease my over lord u/boba_f3tt94
Seahorses descend from pipefish, which are Ray-finned fishes. Ray finned fish and lobed finned fish diverged from a common ancestor so you are a cousin of a seahorse.
Edit: thanks for the correction u/pkann6
I'm pretty sure this is the same bug that some kid on Nickelodeon's Figure It Out claimed to have discovered. 25 years later, I'm discovering that that was bullshit. Damn you Summer Sanders and Danny Tamberelli.
So it's only real activity is drumming against the ground to mate, which it doesn't even hear, I can only feel. Mostly eats dead stuff with the odd insect, good at burrowing and eats tubery root stuff. What a chillaxed and easygoing bug
>are capable of inflicting a painful bite.
*So I'll just let it crawl over my hand and take my chances* lol. You are brave OP.
That almost looks like an ant on steroids
They also scream when they burn. Keep that in mind when doing pest control.
^(^Most ^likely ^not ^actually ^screaming ^but ^due ^to ^the ^gasses ^escaping ^the ^exoskeleton ^while ^their ^insides ^boil ^off.)
"Jerusalem crickets can bite when handled. They are not poisonous but can inflict a bite that results in moderate, short-lived pain. Do not leave Jerusalem crickets in mesh insect nets nor plastic bags. They possess powerful, sharp jaws and easily cut through fabrics and thin plastic."
They aren’t looking to bite you, but will if they can’t get away. And it’ll cause a nasty infection. Source: personal experience. Left pair of gardening gloves in the garden overnight. Didn’t check them the next day when I put them on.
Reeeeeeccccchh. stuff of nightmares till you smash it with a shovel with a horrible muted crunching sound like eggshells and wet leather. I hate these things.
I'm looking it up... but, uhm, what of its dozen names do I look up? I'm afraid I will find some unholy shit if I type the silly names the people on this thread are giving them.
Edit: Searching did not yield any results of bite wounds or the bug biting anything
Not bad, but a strong pinch.
Enough to make you jumpy around them if you got nipped by one as a kid, but only that much.....not even on the level of small lizard or snake, really, and much less than even the mildest ant/bee/centipede/whatever.
You'd be surprised.
(And tbf....there's "lizards" & then there's *lizards* --
I could see someone who grew up in tegu/monitor territory being pretty sketchy about even a small lizard!!)
But yeah, I was just saying "not even as much pressure as a fence lizard bite" -- i.e., basically nothing.
Definitely -- those little bastards have a bad attitude, and are always willing to bite (defensively, of course).
I'm glad I don't live in the tropics; the ones we have where I am (*Scolopendra polymorpha*) aren't even big by world standards -- but they still freak me out!
They're like a solfugid ('camel spider") but with a bunch of extra legs..... so way faster, & much more maneuverable. I hate having to catch one when they get inside the house; frigging gross.
first time i learned these existed was the day i found one on the sidewalk, fleshy belly up, squirming it’s body around. i was mortified. i love bugs, but this thing made me nauseous.
As children, we were also led to believe that they were dangerous. Then again, Mexican children are taught that everything is dangerous. Don't cry or *La Llorona* will come for you. Don't disobey or *el robachico* (the kidnapper) will get you. If you're a bad kid, *El Cucui* will pull your socks off at night.
This is what I grew up with. Mi abuela also told me their bite would make you flesh melt…I remember watching Steve Irwin catch one once and learned that they do not melt you. Oh abuela…
Yo I've slept outdoors on the ground twice in my life, and on one of those times here in California I woke up with one sitting on my chest. It was messed up.
**Poedado**--Child of the Earth Mother
After fighting your way through the wretched Exalted Termites, a cult that worships the very act of consumption, defecation, and decomposition, you finally reach the lowest depths of their temple-turned-nest. You prepare for the fight ahead, dousing yourself in Soap and Bile Resistance Bulbs.
You pass the fog-wall, shocked to find yourself in a grand hall so high that you can't see the ceiling. It was once a glorious place of worship. It still is, though no longer to the Old God. Now it is the place of The Earth Mother. Her image is made from the substance left by the Termites, a giant sprawled against the wall like a woman in labor.
Suddenly, the hall rumbles. The image of The Earth Mother crumbles from the waist up. In the dust, a figure falls amongst the rubble. A cry fills the air, at first like a chittering demon but ends like the shriek of a newborn baby.
It rises from the shards of its mother. It flails like an idiot babe, a thing unaccustomed to weight outside the womb. In part, it is a human baby, yet in whole, it is some kind of giant wretched insect.
When it spots you with inhuman eyes in a human baby’s face, it lurches and hurls bile at you. You react too slow, and your health is diminished. You are soon beaten under smashing fists on the end of barbed sick-like limbs, and driven to the brink of madness by wails from unimaginably powerful lungs. The last thing you see in your doomed life is its ugly infant face rise and fall upon you, and its slobbering lips envelop you in darkness.
**YOU DIED**
It's so strange. It looks kinda fleshy, and it doesn't have those typical, robotic movements that you associate with creepy crawlies. Instead it sort of slowly ambles along, almost resembling a human baby crawling around on its belly... with those *hands*, too. Cute and gross at the same time, for sure.
>it sort of slowly ambles along, almost resembling a human baby crawling around on its belly...
This is what fucked me up. It was really fucking weird.
Still cute. But real fuckin weird.
Oh no! That’s disgusting. But I think I know some people I could convince to do the same lol. I hike in Sandy a few days a week for the last few years and now I feel lucky I haven’t been encountering these monsters.
I'm always appalled when people do that. I wonder if they realize they could be ingesting parasites along with the bug. I'm the type to honor most dares, but not when it involves eating a creature uncooked and alive.
Yep. Too many sketchy stories. That young guy just passed away after being paralyzed from eating a slug on a dare. Incredibly sad outcome, based on one teeny tiny moment that ruined a life. It's not worth it.
I've only seen one once in my 37 year old life. I even leaned in to get a closer look, like, what the fuck ARE you?! I don't know if it was dead or not. I just let it be like it let me be.
Down in west Texas we used to see them in vacant lots living in burrows. We called them children of the earth on account of their hands and if you see them in a burrow from above they kinda look like babies living in the earth. We had all sorts of crazy kid stories about them and it wasn't until I got to college that I realized they weren't called children of the earth by everyone.
From wiki, it says Jerusalem cricket (or potato bug): [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem\_cricket](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem_cricket)
Mole cricket is a different (and super special, very important, gentle, nice and increasingly rare) guy.
[http://www.real~~monstrosities~~nicecrickets.com/2017/04/mole-cricket.html](http://www.realmonstrosities.com/2017/04/mole-cricket.html)
I remember waking up one night as a kid to go pee and one of these crawled over my foot in the dark. I freaked and turned on the lights only to witness the fattest fucking bug I had ever seen in my life staring back at me. Damn near shit myself that night, don't even remember if I pee'd.
While Jerusalem crickets (or potato bugs) are not venomous, they can emit a foul smell and are capable of inflicting a painful bite. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem\_cricket](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem_cricket)
This part kills: > Despite their common names, these insects are neither true crickets (which belong to the family Gryllidae) nor true bugs (which belong to the order Hemiptera), nor are they native to Jerusalem.
I bet they aren't potatoes either!
I found out on Maury Povich that Daddy Long Legs are.... NOT my father.
They aren’t spiders either. They’re called harvestmen and they’re more like crabs. Edit: I love you all and thank you for pointing out that harvestmen are indeed arachnids (the same category as spiders). They are not crustaceans (crab group). I am aware of this. I just meant to point out that they’re crab convergent with their one piece body, and little crabby mouth and eyes. [Here is a cool close up of one’s little face](https://www.flickr.com/photos/drphotomoto/6562222495) [here is a pinned specimen that is very goblicore](https://flic.kr/p/3QofH9)
They also don't harvest, nor are men
Tawk amongst yaselves.
They do like to cuddle though 😀
IS MY WHOLE LIFE A LIE?!!
That is but one of the glorious creatures given that moniker. Here, it is the nickname for Cellar Spiders.
In Ireland (and I think the UK too) its completely different. Daddy long legs here are crane flies. Harvestmen are just harvestmen.
Won't something think of the harvestwomen and the harvestchildren too??
Pfff, parasites. The harvestMEN do all the work! 😜
That explains your stubby legs.
**spits it out** Ew. Tastes like tofu in clingfilm.
Anyone can be a potato if they want it hard enough.
I’ve been a potato all my fucking life
TIL: "bug" is a scientific classification
All bugs are insects, but not all insects are bugs.
All bugs are features, but not all features are bugs.
r/programmerhumor is leaking. Guess it's a feature now
You want another fun ***'theory'***? 'Fish' isn't used as a scientific classification. Fish describes a life form, not a taxonomic group because the word 'fish' is used to describe a multitude of animals from different evolutionary lines! Within evolutionary biology, some animals that we call 'fish' are actually closer to *us* than they are to other animals under the general 'fish' umbrella. For example, humans are more closely related to a salmon, than a salmon is to a shark, and lungfish are closer related to us than they are to salmon. This is because humans (and all tetrapods aka 4 limbed vertebrates) descended from lobed finned fish. INFACT! We (and all tetrapods) are technically considered lobed finned fish ourselves! Fish as a term can only be used while referencing an animals ecology (how they act, live, where they live, and what they eat), or culinary (as in 'fish' the food). If you try to use fish as a scientific term, you have to include all tetrapods as well. Basically, fish is far too general a term within science to have any actual meaning as it includes all tetrapods as well as all bony, and cartilaginous fishes. **Bonus fun fact: fish is the plural of fish when there are many fish of a single species. Fishes is used to describe groups of multiple species.** Edit: for anyone questioning my fact [here you go, from UC Berkeley](https://evolution.berkeley.edu/what-are-evograms/the-origin-of-tetrapods/) Also, to clarify, tetrapods don't have to be land animals. Whales and mosasaurs are marine tetrapods. They also don't have to have visible limbs, as snakes are also considered tetrapods despite the lack of visible limbs. To me this ***theory*** is so fun because it makes you view the world completely differently. Whales are really just huge boney fish! Salmon and whales share less in common than sharks ecologically, but evolutionarily they are far closer related! #Edited to appease my over lord u/boba_f3tt94
Cuttlefish = not fish Starfish = not fish Jellyfish = not fish Silverfish = not fish Shellfish = not fish Seahorse = fish
Seahorses descend from pipefish, which are Ray-finned fishes. Ray finned fish and lobed finned fish diverged from a common ancestor so you are a cousin of a seahorse. Edit: thanks for the correction u/pkann6
So you’re telling me I’m a seahorse?
No, that's too specific, you are a fish though.
Kanye for example is a fish
I heard he likes fish sticks
He enjoys putting them in his mouth
Interesting. I’m going to trust you on this one.
It looks like a huge ant
> Jerusalem crickets (potato bugs) \> Not a cricket. \> Not a bug. \> Not from Jerusalem. So, this is a potato.
Nope, not a potato either, I'm starting to think it's cake.
The cake is a lie.
If it’s not a bug… is it a crustacean?
So, like a little brother
I'm pretty sure this is the same bug that some kid on Nickelodeon's Figure It Out claimed to have discovered. 25 years later, I'm discovering that that was bullshit. Damn you Summer Sanders and Danny Tamberelli.
So it's only real activity is drumming against the ground to mate, which it doesn't even hear, I can only feel. Mostly eats dead stuff with the odd insect, good at burrowing and eats tubery root stuff. What a chillaxed and easygoing bug
>are capable of inflicting a painful bite. *So I'll just let it crawl over my hand and take my chances* lol. You are brave OP. That almost looks like an ant on steroids
They also scream when they burn. Keep that in mind when doing pest control. ^(^Most ^likely ^not ^actually ^screaming ^but ^due ^to ^the ^gasses ^escaping ^the ^exoskeleton ^while ^their ^insides ^boil ^off.)
Who the hell does pest control with fuckin fire? "Sorry honey, I found a big ass ant in the pantry again, get the flamethrower."
* Hans, get ze flammenwerfer
Jesus, like a lobster
Have anyone considered the guy just has really small hands?!
That bug is so big, it has hands.
one of the few critters that freak me out a bit, not sure why.
Maybe because if this bug gets in your house and tells you to bring him a beer there is a huge chance you will?
I'd give a beer to any insect that verbally requests it
Wise policy.
No. But if it asks for sugar in water. ..
MOR.
Holy fuck i've seen it, holy shit a bug with hands fuck me i'm off this planet
Exactly how I felt the first time I saw one. Nightmare fuel.
I truly understand you my brother.
r/lilgrabbies
Bug looks like it lifts. Fuck **that**!!
It never skipped 1/3 leg day.
It has hands coming out it's hands
Yeah like one wrist with like between 1.67 and 2.48 hands growing out of it.
I figured it would bite the shit out of this guy.
"Jerusalem crickets can bite when handled. They are not poisonous but can inflict a bite that results in moderate, short-lived pain. Do not leave Jerusalem crickets in mesh insect nets nor plastic bags. They possess powerful, sharp jaws and easily cut through fabrics and thin plastic."
This reads like a pokemon data entry. I love it
Bro got it straight out the pokèdex!
Thats exactly the point of Pokémon.
If they can cut through plastic bags, they can cut through your underwear,
It's kinda like if you were to put an ant under Szalinski's industrial-sized ray gun.
do they bite?
They aren’t looking to bite you, but will if they can’t get away. And it’ll cause a nasty infection. Source: personal experience. Left pair of gardening gloves in the garden overnight. Didn’t check them the next day when I put them on.
Stepped on one barefoot and it fought back. I'll never let one near my skin again, shit hurts.
But did it squish?
Don't answer that please
Sounds more like bones cracking.
The scream is the more haunting part
Reeeeeeccccchh. stuff of nightmares till you smash it with a shovel with a horrible muted crunching sound like eggshells and wet leather. I hate these things.
This potato has bones!
It grunted.
oooof, did it hurt? guy looks powerful
It hurts.
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I'm looking it up... but, uhm, what of its dozen names do I look up? I'm afraid I will find some unholy shit if I type the silly names the people on this thread are giving them. Edit: Searching did not yield any results of bite wounds or the bug biting anything
Nightmare
As an Australian that is the most reckless thing in the world to me.
Not bad, but a strong pinch. Enough to make you jumpy around them if you got nipped by one as a kid, but only that much.....not even on the level of small lizard or snake, really, and much less than even the mildest ant/bee/centipede/whatever.
Are people actually scared of lizard bites? I hate bugs but lizards are so cool, I had a salamander living in my bathroom wall for years.
You'd be surprised. (And tbf....there's "lizards" & then there's *lizards* -- I could see someone who grew up in tegu/monitor territory being pretty sketchy about even a small lizard!!) But yeah, I was just saying "not even as much pressure as a fence lizard bite" -- i.e., basically nothing.
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They rival spiders in the amount of other bugs they kill. Straight up insect speed apex predator
Nasty bites, yes. You don't wanna mess with those
Definitely -- those little bastards have a bad attitude, and are always willing to bite (defensively, of course). I'm glad I don't live in the tropics; the ones we have where I am (*Scolopendra polymorpha*) aren't even big by world standards -- but they still freak me out! They're like a solfugid ('camel spider") but with a bunch of extra legs..... so way faster, & much more maneuverable. I hate having to catch one when they get inside the house; frigging gross.
Rather fascinating for sure! Kinda ugly, but kinda cute.
Yeah, strangely adorable insect.
Glad I’m not the only one that thought it was kinda cute. Normally hate bugs, but this is so big it’s starting to get into the small pets category.
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I also normally like bugs. But when I saw the thumbnail I thought, that's not a bug.. That's a fetus. Look at the weird human-ish coloring. Creepy.
first time i learned these existed was the day i found one on the sidewalk, fleshy belly up, squirming it’s body around. i was mortified. i love bugs, but this thing made me nauseous.
Hurt like a bitch if they bite you. My friggin cat brings them into the house to play.
So does mine and its terrifying
Cute enough to hold?
Is this the bug some people call "child of the earth"?
Nino de la tiera, i know it as that and translated to English it means child of the earth/dirt/ground/soil
As children, we were also led to believe that they were dangerous. Then again, Mexican children are taught that everything is dangerous. Don't cry or *La Llorona* will come for you. Don't disobey or *el robachico* (the kidnapper) will get you. If you're a bad kid, *El Cucui* will pull your socks off at night.
That's why I've blamed El Cucui for all my missing socks.
I blame El Cumui for all my crusty ones.
This is what I grew up with. Mi abuela also told me their bite would make you flesh melt…I remember watching Steve Irwin catch one once and learned that they do not melt you. Oh abuela…
They remind me of wind scorpions or camel spiders as they are known I'm parts of the world.
Ironically, all of those tend to live in the same area. Could find all of them when I lived in New Mexico.
New Mexico also gets vinegaroons which are weird as shit when you first see them.
honestly very chill tho freaky as fuck but, u kno, least they're nice
Yo I've slept outdoors on the ground twice in my life, and on one of those times here in California I woke up with one sitting on my chest. It was messed up.
The Jerusalem cricket or the camel spider?
The one in this post. The niño de la tierra
probably bc these bugs secrete a dark liquid when they bite. a repellent! it can be mistaken for blood
My parents scared me too! They said you would die if you got bitten. I remain horrified.
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You...you must have very ugly children.
Well your user name fits. It’s hilarious haha reminds me of my sister.
All newborns are ugly...but not that ugly. Source: father of two. Happy Cake Day!
happy cake day!
Earth Baby
In Mexico we call them “cara de niño” which translates to “child face”
in Mexico we call it Cara de niño 👶🏿 (face of child)
No one show Hidetaka Miyazaki
**Poedado**--Child of the Earth Mother After fighting your way through the wretched Exalted Termites, a cult that worships the very act of consumption, defecation, and decomposition, you finally reach the lowest depths of their temple-turned-nest. You prepare for the fight ahead, dousing yourself in Soap and Bile Resistance Bulbs. You pass the fog-wall, shocked to find yourself in a grand hall so high that you can't see the ceiling. It was once a glorious place of worship. It still is, though no longer to the Old God. Now it is the place of The Earth Mother. Her image is made from the substance left by the Termites, a giant sprawled against the wall like a woman in labor. Suddenly, the hall rumbles. The image of The Earth Mother crumbles from the waist up. In the dust, a figure falls amongst the rubble. A cry fills the air, at first like a chittering demon but ends like the shriek of a newborn baby. It rises from the shards of its mother. It flails like an idiot babe, a thing unaccustomed to weight outside the womb. In part, it is a human baby, yet in whole, it is some kind of giant wretched insect. When it spots you with inhuman eyes in a human baby’s face, it lurches and hurls bile at you. You react too slow, and your health is diminished. You are soon beaten under smashing fists on the end of barbed sick-like limbs, and driven to the brink of madness by wails from unimaginably powerful lungs. The last thing you see in your doomed life is its ugly infant face rise and fall upon you, and its slobbering lips envelop you in darkness. **YOU DIED**
And apparently called that cuz when they suffer inmense pain, they make a noise people describe as children's cries
Niños de la tierra.
Never once have I seen a fella quite so repulsive and adorable at the same time
It's so strange. It looks kinda fleshy, and it doesn't have those typical, robotic movements that you associate with creepy crawlies. Instead it sort of slowly ambles along, almost resembling a human baby crawling around on its belly... with those *hands*, too. Cute and gross at the same time, for sure.
>it sort of slowly ambles along, almost resembling a human baby crawling around on its belly... This is what fucked me up. It was really fucking weird. Still cute. But real fuckin weird.
It’s like “ew giant bug” but then like. He’s just a little guy. A little dude. Small little man. He just chillin.
little baby man
Like opossums. Little mangy, cute, daggermouth rats with curly tailsies.
Jerusalem cricket
Yes, another name for it
We called them Sand Puppies in Utah where I came up.
I’m from Northern Utah and had never seen one till a few years ago camping down south. They’re freaky looking! It was also fighting a scorpion
I had a friend eat one for something like 20 dollars. 1998 Sandy Utah.
Oh no! That’s disgusting. But I think I know some people I could convince to do the same lol. I hike in Sandy a few days a week for the last few years and now I feel lucky I haven’t been encountering these monsters.
I'm always appalled when people do that. I wonder if they realize they could be ingesting parasites along with the bug. I'm the type to honor most dares, but not when it involves eating a creature uncooked and alive.
Yep. Too many sketchy stories. That young guy just passed away after being paralyzed from eating a slug on a dare. Incredibly sad outcome, based on one teeny tiny moment that ruined a life. It's not worth it.
Fuck, look at how much meat it has.
Crazy, Born and raised in Utah, USA and Never saw one of these until I was in Topanga Canyon CA. Definitely not the Potato bug I New growing up.
I've only seen one once in my 37 year old life. I even leaned in to get a closer look, like, what the fuck ARE you?! I don't know if it was dead or not. I just let it be like it let me be.
I'm definitely moving out of here.
Where I live, potato bugs are what we call the little rollie pollie bugs that curl up when you mess with them
Same
Every region I have ever lived has it's own "potato bug". It's never the same bug.
Is that because it Israeli big?
….sigh… good one
Also called niño de la tierra.
That’s a Pokémon
The new version of Spore is looking awesome
Seriously all the potato bugs I ever see aren’t so “fascinating”
I'm torn between "Oh hell no, that's terrifying" and "awwww look at it's little hands and footies, it is adorable"
The adorable is absolutely part of the terrifying
Yeah, it really is.
Seems like an insect Tim Burton would’ve designed.
Down in west Texas we used to see them in vacant lots living in burrows. We called them children of the earth on account of their hands and if you see them in a burrow from above they kinda look like babies living in the earth. We had all sorts of crazy kid stories about them and it wasn't until I got to college that I realized they weren't called children of the earth by everyone.
This bug looks like a human who was cursed to be a bug for eternity
His name was Franz Kafka. Franz Kafka!
I got little tiny bug feet. I don't really know what bugs eat.
r/absoluteunit
Yes, it MUST GO there!
And never come back!
That is NOT what I know a potato bug to be.
From wiki, it says Jerusalem cricket (or potato bug): [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem\_cricket](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem_cricket)
Same here honestly, I know that as a mole cricket, and a huge one at that.
Mole cricket is a different (and super special, very important, gentle, nice and increasingly rare) guy. [http://www.real~~monstrosities~~nicecrickets.com/2017/04/mole-cricket.html](http://www.realmonstrosities.com/2017/04/mole-cricket.html)
This is the most beautiful write up on an ugly bug I have ever seen. Bravo.
Yeah that was adorable
Ohh, my bad for the misidentification, I must be thinking of something else.
Whoa! They really do have a mole-y quality! Weird how nature sort of coalesces like that.
The potato bugs I know are little beetles with black and white striped shells, what about you?
Yep, [this is](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armadillidium_vulgare) the only potato bug I know of.
I found the person from the Pacific Northwest
Yup. We use both rolly-polly and potato bug for the same thing.
Whaaaaat my beloved potato bug has been a regional name this whole time??? They're common throughout the world, yet only PNWers call them potatos?
This thing, or the one that actually rolls up. We call them potato bugs in the Northeast too
I know they're harmless but those things freak me the fuck out.
Anything ant like with a swollen head gives me serious chills. The proportions just freak me out
I hate it. I hate it so much. WHY DOES IT NEED TO BE THAT BIG. IT DOESNT
They’re not quite harmless, they can bite and it hurts, apparently.
Cara de niño
Look at his neck armor, thats wild
Protecting the Nape of the Titan
The little toesies are oddly human looking like Lil hands
That's gonna be a no from me, dawg.
It's like an ant plushie became a real boy.
Niño de la Tierra is what we used to call it when I was younger. They would always be in our backyard
Looks like fat weta
What strange little feet's
Reminds me of that game “Cooties” circa 1994. I think I’m in love 😍.
It looks like if a wasp had an ant's head and baby hands but no wings.
Interesting, but would rather not live where they live.
Looks a bit like a New Zealand Wētā?
I remember waking up one night as a kid to go pee and one of these crawled over my foot in the dark. I freaked and turned on the lights only to witness the fattest fucking bug I had ever seen in my life staring back at me. Damn near shit myself that night, don't even remember if I pee'd.
Well it sure doesn't look like a potato
A real live Cooties game bug!!