A new pet! Well, kind of...

Wild Karrde · Post by **Wild Karrde** » 2005-06-20 05:14pm

Just what the hell is this thing

Singular Quartet · Post by **Singular Quartet** » 2005-06-20 05:16pm

Well, from the really blurry photos (You don't have a macro-lense or setting, do you?) I'd say that it's some sort of spider.

Don't worry, it probably isn't that poisonous.

Wild Karrde · Post by **Wild Karrde** » 2005-06-20 05:50pm

Singular Quartet wrote:Well, from the really blurry photos (You don't have a macro-lense or setting, do you?) I'd say that it's some sort of spider.

Unfortunately it's due to the crappy digital camera I took it with.

Don't worry, it probably isn't that poisonous.

I think it looked more like the kind that would lay it's eggs in your brain as you sleep.

Raxmei · Post by **Raxmei** » 2005-06-20 05:51pm

Looks like a cricket to me.

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2005-06-20 05:53pm

Three days from now you won't be the same Wild Karrde that we've known.

Wild Karrde · Post by **Wild Karrde** » 2005-06-20 06:01pm

Raxmei wrote:Looks like a cricket to me.

This thing was much too big to be a cricket IMHO, ~slightly longer than your thumb up to the second joint and a little bit wider.

Chardok · Post by **Chardok** » 2005-06-20 08:04pm

Not a spider, it has only 6 legs. And yes, it looks like an african cave spider. Saw 'em on Fear Factor, once. and that makes me an amateur Entomologist.

Therefore God exists.

Did I say cave spider? Cave Cricket, I meant.

Majin Gojira · Post by **Majin Gojira** » 2005-06-20 08:52pm

Yeah, I was about to ask "Where was this taken", it looks like a cave arthropod of some kind.

Wild Karrde · Post by **Wild Karrde** » 2005-06-20 09:59pm

Majin Gojira wrote:Yeah, I was about to ask "Where was this taken", it looks like a cave arthropod of some kind.

The pictures were taken over Father's Day at my grandparent's house in New Jersey. I found it in the fire pit out back that's been covered for several years with a piece of plywood.

Singular Quartet · Post by **Singular Quartet** » 2005-06-21 12:09am

I think the front legs are a little big and the rear legs are a little small for a cricket, but it might be one.

Taco Pope · Post by **Taco Pope** » 2005-06-21 05:39am

Hard to tell with the blurry pictures. At first I thought it was a jerusalem cricket , but the head doesn't look right.

Stofsk · Post by **Stofsk** » 2005-06-21 05:49am

It's obvious what it is: an alien invasion.

I for one welcome our new insectoid overlords...

Xon · Post by **Xon** » 2005-06-21 08:21am

Singular Quartet wrote:Don't worry, it probably isn't that poisonous.

If it was an Australian spider you could say that it is that poisonous

wautd · Post by **wautd** » 2005-06-21 10:33am

Did it taste like chicken?

Its very blurry. If it came out the water, it might be a waterscorpion

Quadlok · Post by **Quadlok** » 2005-06-21 01:16pm

It might be some sort of locust. It definately has the locust/cricket look.

Noble Ire · Post by **Noble Ire** » 2005-06-21 01:32pm

Its the Zerg!!!!!

Really, I dont have a clue. Is your grandparent's house near the coast?

Post by **weemadando** » 2005-06-21 09:54pm

If I had to take a guess, I'd say a Weta... But, you aren't in New Zealand, are you?

Wild Karrde · Post by **Wild Karrde** » 2005-06-21 10:28pm

Pure Sabacc wrote:Its the Zerg!!!!!

Really, I dont have a clue. Is your grandparent's house near the coast?

No.

Wild Karrde · Post by **Wild Karrde** » 2005-06-21 10:36pm

Sharpened one of the pics to try and mak it clearer.

Notice the long antennas and how the back two legs have three "toes".

Post by **weemadando** » 2005-06-21 10:40pm

So thats a "no" on the Weta theory?

Superman · Post by **Superman** » 2005-06-21 11:06pm

Definately an insect and not an arachnid. In other words, its not a spider.

I would say something similar to a Jerusalem Cricket.

Wild Karrde · Post by **Wild Karrde** » 2005-06-21 11:24pm

weemadando wrote:So thats a "no" on the Weta theory?

Yes.

Although they do look rather similar.