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crevicedwelling · 1 year

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hi this is Tetra. they are a Japanese camel cricket (Diestrammena japanica) I’ve been raising over the winter after I found them as a baby.

I believe Tetra may be intersex since they have a much shorter ovipositor than a typical female, and I’d originally thought they were male as a younger nymph.

their hobbies include dwelling in crevices, eating dead roaches and cardboard, and spitting brown goop when picked up

btw Tetra is short for tetrabromomethane

#bugs #cave cricket #camel cricket #insect

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spricket-central · 4 months

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when i first met Donut, i wasnt sure he'd survive the night.

i caught him while he was hiding in the folds of my bedsheets, with my cat Wembley still in pursuit. the poor thing had taken a beating: he was missing his right jumping leg, and his 2nd right walking leg appeared to be completely paralyzed, dragging behind him as he nervously skittered around in his temporary enclosure.

luckily, his injuries were purely external, and he pulled through brilliantly!

i moved him into a large enclosure with Baguette, a solitary adult female i had rescued only a week prior. she was a tad stand-offish with him at first, but the two quickly became friendly, spending most of their time hanging out together!

his paralyzed leg was eventually discarded, possibly by him gnawing it off himself. he moved about rather clumsily, only having one leg on his right side to work with his undamaged left limbs, but he seemed to have no problem getting around regardless. he loved to climb around the enclosure, and could still haul ass when he felt surprised or threatened, ahaha.

Donut was such a character. i have no idea how he managed to fit so much energy (or cucumber) into that funny little bean-shaped body. im so glad that i was able to give him a calm, easy life after his brush with death. i just wanted him to be comfortable, but he didnt just survive: he thrived.

Donut, i love you dearly, and I'll miss you and your antics so much. i promise I'll take good care of your girlfriend. im even thinking of incubating some of her eggs, so who knows, you may even end up a father!

I'll think of you tomorrow when im cutting up everybodys cucumber 💚

Donut

10/17/23 (caught) - 1/8/24

#insects #pet bugs #bugblr #invert pets #crickets #camel cricket #spider cricket #cave cricket #spricket #rhaphidophoridae #donut #memorial #pics

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geosesarma · 1 year

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did you know? shrimp.

#orthoptera #ceuthophilus #camel cricket #cricket #bug #bugs #insect #insects #insect photography #arthropods #arthropod #entomology

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onenicebugperday · 10 months

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@recoherent submitted: saw this photogenic little guy while on a walk, and have no idea what they are! they were very polite about having pictures taken though. seen in [removed] (remove please).

Do you think they k now they look like a silly little land shrimp? If you see them again you should tell them. It's a camel cricket, though!

#animals #insects #bugs #submission #cricket #camel cricket

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headspacedad · 5 months

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excitement time

so - how many of you don't watch your feet when you walk around inside your house? And how many of you go barefoot in the same conditions? I want you to remember your answer.

Because this morning I got up and wandered into the bathroom, sat down on the toilet and looked, naturally, back the way I'd just come. Now, my eyes aren't the best when I first wake up and I thought to myself: 'self, that is one big ass piece of fabric lying there in the doorway you just came through'. Because Sam, you see, likes to chew fabric and so I'm used to small pieces of it scattered everywhere thanks to his hole-punch jaws. But this - this was big for a Sammy scrap of fabric and it was -

pointy.

Lots of pointy in fact.

'There is no way' I thought, still seated, 'that that is a spider. It's not round enough.

But it sure as hell looks like a spider with those legs.'

I'm from Florida. In Florida we get Bugs. There's a lot I can deal with. Not happily but I can deal. Careful, I lean forward a little bit and squint and yeah - that's not spider.

Also yes, it is Very Definitely A Bug.

A golf-ball sized bug

before you added the legs.

Well by now I'm not happy, very carefully getting some pants on, not looking away from it. It hasn't moved and its sitting there in the middle of the floor so I'm thinking its dead (bugs have a weird habit of crawling out into the middle of my floor in this current place I'm staying before they die). That thought - I have lived a long life upon this earth and I am not about to get stupid now when it comes to a giant bug I don't recognize that might be dead but might not.

Briefly, probably longer than I should, I consider attempting to clear the doorway the bug is blocking to get my cell phone to take a picture because 'holy shit, I need a record of this thing, mostly to share with friends to gross/creep out but also, perhaps, to identify it later'. Luckily, my non-social media side of my brain kicks in and points out that just because its not moving now doesn't mean it won't be moving soon and if I take my eyes of this thing and it disappears I'm going to have to take my rabbit, put him in my car, and then lose my security deposit because I'm going to have to burn the entire trailer to the ground.

I find a nearby box of hair dye and carefully position myself in my well honed 'cockroaches always run just as the box drops' position which means I'm ready to immediately leap onto the toilet lid. I slam it down. The bug is crushed underneath the box!!

But is he really? Because its a box of hair dye, not a book. There are a lot of light things in a box of hair dye, it doesn't have a lot of solid weight behind it. I do the grind and twist method with it. Then I very carefully lift an edge, ready to retreat to the sink top this time. The bug is dead! Very squished and very dead. I am triumphant!

I still have no idea what the bug was.

Taking my sister's advice, I type "Big ass North Carolina bug" into the search engine of my laptop and hit images. I regret hitting 'images'. I persist. And there! There it IS! Sure enough - it is, indeed, a big ass NC bug'.

It's a Camel Cricket.

I'm going to put it under a read more because I love you, dear followers and potential stranger.

That was what was in the doorway of my bathroom. That I did not see, as I walked with my bare feet into the bathroom. Somehow some guardian angel somewhere, caught my foot just enough to have me step over this thing and settle down, soles of my feet unmolested.

I also feel I should point down that, last night, before the BAB was found in the bathroom, Sam, sleeping under the covers of the bed with me, woke me up thumping. I reached down, patted his head and then eventually moved him when he kept thumping at me. He went back to sleep. I went back to sleep. The night was very dark.

For my own sanity, I chose to think Sam was thumping, something he never does, for an entirely unrelated reason.

#big ass bug #bug #camel cricket #it was a cross between a spider and a cricket #and my life will never be the same

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enby-creature-feature · 11 months

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A guy I found in my bathroom

#camel cricket #bugs #cricket #cute big guy #dw i put them back outside #insects

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roachfarmer · 1 month

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Fuck yea they are

#tw insects #spider crickets #camel cricket #bugs

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jonnysinsectcatalogue · 9 months

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Camel Cricket - Ceuthophilus sp.

Cottage country has been very good to the blog this year, and has given us another new specie to observe! This adult female was found behind the seat of a kayak, but was only discovered after the subsequent returning to shore after the kayak tipped over on the water. She's been through a lot, but she made it safely back to dry land. It's likely she made a home for herself inside the crawlspace along with the kayaks, deck chairs and lawnmowers. That's just the way Camel Crickets (family Rhaphidophoridae) like it: a dark, moist environment where they can hide and flourish! Depending on the specie and environment, they are also known as Cave Crickets, Spider Crickets, Humpback Crickets and Sand Treaders. As their foremost name suggests, they are primarily found inside caves or mines and can also be found crawling among sandy/desert environments. They prefer the nocturnal hours and manage navigating their environment thanks to their large antennae and (to a lesser degree) their extended legs (for the longer range of touch), short rear-leg spines, and their rear cerci. This one also has well-developed eyes, how lucky!

In a temperate climate like Canada, outdoor Camel Crickets may be drawn to hiding under leaf litter or fallen logs until nighttime arrives. When they become active, they'll feed on organic material whether they scavenge, passively hunt or consume plants. The genus Ceuthophilus are reported to be scavengers, but unless they have enlarged mandibles (like the Tree Wētās do for example) they do not bite humans. There isn't much else to do since Rhaphidophoridae specimens tend to be wingless and as such cannot make songs they way other Crickets can through stridulation. You may not ever hear their song, but their morphology grants them other benefits. Their large hind legs allow them to be astonishing jumpers! This one attempted to jump once, but may have been disoriented from the kayak trip and the sunlight. Placing her on the stones seemed to settle her down. Moreover, the spurred tibia on their hindlegs grant Camel Crickets the ability to dig; they flick their hind legs vigorously and push sand behind them. The branch within the Cricket kingdom is certainly fascinating. The only point of contention I have (aside from what happens if these insects get in the house) is that identification down to the specie isn't very easy.

Pictures were taken on Saturday 22, 2023 in Muskoka with a Google Pixel 4. I'll be taking a closer look at these pictures when I can to verify the specie. Might it be C. brevipes (the Boreal Camel Cricket), C. maculatus or something else altogether?

#jonny’s insect catalogue #ontario insect #cricket #camel cricket #ceuthophilus #orthoptera #insect #muskoka #july2023 #2023 #nature #entomology #invertebrates

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ratzboi · 9 months

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#spricket #spider cricket #cricket #large cricket #camel cricket #cave cricket #cave weta #Diestrammena asynamoraI #biology #insects #bug tw #my photos #photoblog #photography

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pelagodes · 2 months

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THIS BOY HAS THIGHS FOR DAAAAYS

#camel cricket #entomology #thick and juicy #Pristoceuthophilus #orthoptera

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fnrrfygmschnish · 3 months

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Found our kitty in "stalking a bug" mode in the kitchen tonight... turned out he had spotted a teeny-tiny little cricklet on the floor!

Cricklet is now relocated outside near a nice wood pile with a tarp over it, with easy access to the basement where its brethren are very abundant. It did not become a kitty treat. 😅

Not sure if I've ever seen a cave cricket quite this small before. Maaaaybe half an inch long body at most, not counting legs or 'tennas.

#bugs #photography #cricket #cave cricket #camel cricket #insects #tiny baby cricklet! so little!#yes I'm going to call baby crickets “cricklets” now

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crevicedwelling · 1 year

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