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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Sunday, May 06, 2007 - 4:37 am
Hi there, I was cleaning out my carport when I noticed the cat following what I thought was a Giant Cricket. When I got closer I saw a 2 inch dark charcoal grey coloured bug with no visible head. it had huge eyes way down low and spikey legs. When It walked it looked very slow and clumsy. it looked like it only had four legs. Anyways, I havent got a CLUE what the heck it was. So I got the camera to see if anyone else knew.

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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Sunday, May 06, 2007 - 4:56 am
~Screams~
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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Sunday, May 06, 2007 - 4:59 am
Colossus says it's the kind of bug you step on, and not bare-footed. Looks like some kind of waterbug to both of us.
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Twiggyish
Member
08-14-2000
| Sunday, May 06, 2007 - 6:20 am
It looks like a beetle. We have bugs like him in Florida.
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Sunday, May 06, 2007 - 6:41 am
looks like a cockroach or a water beetle
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Sunday, May 06, 2007 - 6:45 am
here you go!!! Home Cash for Cockroaches Cash for Cockroaches Healthy, live American Cockroaches needed for new Insect Wing! Houstonians are invited to contribute their cockroaches at the entrance to the Cockrell Butterfly Center on Tuesdays (May 8th and May 15th) from 4 – 7 p.m. or Saturdays (May 5th, May 12th and May 19th) from 12 – 3 p.m. for $0.25 each. Upon arrival, ask for a Museum entomologist. After the first 1,000 cockroaches are collected, donors will be given passes to come back and visit their friends when the new Brown Hall of Entomology opens May 25, 2007. The offer is available for the first 1,000 cockroaches that crawl through the door. All of the cockroaches collected from the public will become part of a display featuring the “sanitary engineers” of the insect world such as cockroaches, dung beetles and termites. “Cockroaches are fastidious creatures,” said Nancy Greig, curator of entomology for the Houston Museum of Natural Science. “They are as clean as the area in which they live, and catching them is a great activity for kids. By contributing cockroaches from your environment, you’ll be helping educate all our visitors about this, and the many other, surprising truths about bugs.” Stay tuned for more information on opening weekend festivities May 25th, 26th, and 27th! http://www.hmns.org/generic/Insect_Wing.asp
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Sunday, May 06, 2007 - 7:01 am
That is a funny article seeing the perspective of a curator of entomology. I particularly liked the line: "catching them is a great activity for kids"
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Sunday, May 06, 2007 - 7:25 am
we do entertain our kids differently down here don't we!!!
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Sunday, May 06, 2007 - 7:33 am
Sun, I agree it is in the waterbug/cockroach family.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Sunday, May 06, 2007 - 7:37 am
Yep waterbug, cousin of the cockroach.
link
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Halfunit
Moderator
09-02-2001
| Sunday, May 06, 2007 - 8:03 am
I've voting for the Water Beetle which is not to be confused with the water bug. 
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Sunday, May 06, 2007 - 8:05 am
Maybe we could have a bug line-up and one way glass? 
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Sunday, May 06, 2007 - 8:26 am
Half, I'm in the Colossus Camp and I would definitely be confusing them because they'd look the same after they were flattened. Yeah a line up of Palmetto Bigs, Cockroaches, Water Bugs, Water Beetles
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Halfunit
Moderator
09-02-2001
| Sunday, May 06, 2007 - 8:29 am
...and whirligigs...
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Sunday, May 06, 2007 - 8:34 am
Ah.. the link I had I think was calling water beetles, water bugs. So the picture matches Sun's little prize but it isn't right.
water bug
water beetle
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Sunday, May 06, 2007 - 8:40 am
whirligig beetle
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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Sunday, May 06, 2007 - 8:51 am
~Hits high-C and swings from chandelier~ I vote for water beetle. Up til now I though water bugs/beetles/gigs/whatever were just a little nuisance. Knowing that they're related to cockroaches makes me hate them.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Sunday, May 06, 2007 - 9:04 am
GAL.. I have to stop reading the letters at this site, though there is much humor woven amongst the horror! And this is just the Cockroach search, I gather.. there is a home link.. whatsthatbug
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Sunday, May 06, 2007 - 9:16 am
I'm with GAL EEEEKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK Sun, you are brave getting close enough to take a pic, it almost looks like it could fly. I dont even go outside at night in June because the June bugs are out. Those things will fly right into you...shudder.....
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Sunday, May 06, 2007 - 9:19 am
I'm with GAL EEEEKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK Sun, you are brave getting close enough to take a pic, it almost looks like it could fly. I dont even go outside at night in June because the June bugs are out. Those things will fly right into you...shudder.....
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Twiggyish
Member
08-14-2000
| Sunday, May 06, 2007 - 9:52 am
I think we need x-rays and diagrams to be sure. 
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Sunday, May 06, 2007 - 10:51 am
It looks like an old hand grenade. I don't think you should step on it or anything.

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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Sunday, May 06, 2007 - 11:14 am
When it comes to bugs, I pretty much ascribe to the 'live and let live' philosophy as long as I can use my capture jar and relocate them outside. However, I usually suck it up and smish the silverfish. Those little devils are almost too fast to catch. Although, I managed to get one in the jar that was caught in the bathtub and couldn't scale the sides to get back out.
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Skootz
Member
07-23-2003
| Sunday, May 06, 2007 - 11:41 am
I think the best place for that bug is the bottom of someones shoe or large boot in this case..YUCK - but have that person place the bug under there boot when you are out of hearing the crunch distance before it is done lol
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Justavice
Member
11-22-2005
| Sunday, May 06, 2007 - 12:42 pm
When I first moved into my second apartment, I had roaches so big they were too massive to squish with a foot. It would have been like stepping on a small animal. And those suckers COULD FLY!!!! I couldn't sleep because they would come out at night. I bought 36 of those little disks and lined the apartment with them, four big roach motels, and a can of raid. I saved the receipt and deducted the cost from my rent. I still shudder thinking about them.
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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Sunday, May 06, 2007 - 1:07 pm
water bettle it is! yes, nearby I do have a swampy area and pooled water. It also explains why it was moving so slowly on land, bet those legs are made for propelling thru water. I figured someone here would know. thx!
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Wednesday, May 09, 2007 - 1:50 pm
Whew, I am glad I can stop reading this thread now.
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