Bug Id

[itbites]

Can anyone possibly tell me what bug this is? I found it...in my dogs mouth :lol:

 

[Snake Catcher Victoria]

mole cricket

 

[hornet]

yup, mole cricket, i caught a garden skink trying to eat one the other day, bloody cricket is bigger than the lizard lol

 

[grimbeny]

mole cricket? thats what i always called them as a kid

EDIT: too slow

 

[itbites]

Umm so exactly what is a mole cricket? I've never seen one before..

 

[grimbeny]

now you have

 

[Snake Catcher Victoria]

Its great lizard food but check this wikipedia link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mole_cricket for info on the species.

 

[SyKeD]

we've had a few of them around.... ugly little buggers!

 

[moosenoose]

I think it's a mole cricket 8) (Just keeping with the flow of the threads lately hehehehe) 10 more posts will confirm it though :lol:

 

[itbites]

LOL moosenoose, cool well now i know ..their days in my backyard are numbered hehe

 

[Magpie]

It's not a mole cricket, don;t you people know anything?
People like you disgust me giving out advice on things you know nothing about.

 

[itbites]

LOL...someone has issues

 

[imalizard]

If you put them on your hand they push your fingers apart and it fels weird lol

 

[Sdaji]

I think it's a mole cricket 8) (Just keeping with the flow of the threads lately hehehehe) 10 more posts will confirm it though :lol:

I was thinking about making a similar post

Yes, it's definitely a mole cricket, uh huh, I knew it and even though you'd already been told and had it confirmed several times, I wanted to look like I knew too, 'cause I'm so smart

Oh, right, by this stage I'm supposed to add extra information about them and personal anecdotes of my experiences with them, and in the case that others have already provided information and anecdotes, my information must be more detailed and obscure than the previous information, and my anecdotes funnier and more impressive.

They often turn up in rice paddies, and rice farmers often gather them up and eat them. They're quite delicious and nutritious. If you're going to gather them up for food, be careful as the forelegs are modified for digging, they're very strong and covered in serrations which can give you a superficial but mildly painful injury. They have long, drawn out calls and usually call from the entrance of their burrows.

When I was a little kid...

Okay, I'm bored now, I couldn't even be bothered googling them to get their global distributional data, number of species, etc

 

[itbites]

:shock: um ok then.... lol

 

[Malley]

If you're going to gather them up for food, be careful as the forelegs are modified for digging, they're very strong and covered in serrations which can give you a superficial but mildly painful injury.

Legs modified for digging are called "fossorial", did you know that Sdaji, didya didya?

 

[DrNick]

Legs modified for digging are called "fossorial", did you know that Sdaji, didya didya?

know about it...pfffftttt.... Sdaji made that word up!

 

[horsenz]

I was thinking about making a similar post

Yes, it's definitely a mole cricket, uh huh, I knew it and even though you'd already been told and had it confirmed several times, I wanted to look like I knew too, 'cause I'm so smart

Oh, right, by this stage I'm supposed to add extra information about them and personal anecdotes of my experiences with them, and in the case that others have already provided information and anecdotes, my information must be more detailed and obscure than the previous information, and my anecdotes funnier and more impressive.

They often turn up in rice paddies, and rice farmers often gather them up and eat them. They're quite delicious and nutritious. If you're going to gather them up for food, be careful as the forelegs are modified for digging, they're very strong and covered in serrations which can give you a superficial but mildly painful injury. They have long, drawn out calls and usually call from the entrance of their burrows.

When I was a little kid...

Okay, I'm bored now, I couldn't even be bothered googling them to get their global distributional data, number of species, etc

ok take off your white coat now cause you ate them all

 

[Sdaji]

Legs modified for digging are called "fossorial", did you know that Sdaji, didya didya?

Ooh! ******* contest time! :lol:

I finished my honours year (which focussed on insects) when you were barely starting your uni course!

Is it time to start using ridiculously unnecessary jargon? Yes, the ridiculous jargon contest...

The Mole Crickets are such enchanting endognathus hexapods which form the family Gryllotalpidae, which of course are Ensiferans. Despite their comical appearance with wings barely extending past the head when folded, these insects are volant after they have completed their incomplete metamorphosis.

Yeah, I'm bored again; that's as much silly jargon as I feel like throwing at someone I'm only pretending to compete with :lol:

 

[Sdaji]

Oh, come on! They censor the word ******* around here? Even a prude like me is comfortable with that one! :lol: