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A new pet! Well, kind of...
Posted: 2005-06-20 05:14pm
by Wild Karrde
Posted: 2005-06-20 05:16pm
by Singular Quartet
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.
Posted: 2005-06-20 05:50pm
by Wild Karrde
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.
Posted: 2005-06-20 05:51pm
by Raxmei
Looks like a cricket to me.
Posted: 2005-06-20 05:53pm
by Shinova
Three days from now you won't be the same Wild Karrde that we've known.
Posted: 2005-06-20 06:01pm
by Wild Karrde
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.
Posted: 2005-06-20 08:04pm
by Chardok
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.
Posted: 2005-06-20 08:52pm
by Majin Gojira
Yeah, I was about to ask "Where was this taken", it looks like a cave arthropod of some kind.
Posted: 2005-06-20 09:59pm
by Wild Karrde
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.
Posted: 2005-06-21 12:09am
by Singular Quartet
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.
Posted: 2005-06-21 05:39am
by Taco Pope
Hard to tell with the blurry pictures. At first I thought it was a
jerusalem cricket , but the head doesn't look right.
Posted: 2005-06-21 05:49am
by Stofsk
It's obvious what it is: an alien invasion.
I for one welcome our new insectoid overlords...
Posted: 2005-06-21 08:21am
by Xon
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
Posted: 2005-06-21 10:33am
by wautd
Did it taste like chicken?
Its very blurry. If it came out the water, it might be a waterscorpion
Posted: 2005-06-21 01:16pm
by Quadlok
It might be some sort of locust. It definately has the locust/cricket look.
Posted: 2005-06-21 01:32pm
by Noble Ire
Its the Zerg!!!!!
Really, I dont have a clue. Is your grandparent's house near the coast?
Posted: 2005-06-21 09:54pm
by weemadando
Posted: 2005-06-21 10:28pm
by Wild Karrde
Pure Sabacc wrote:Its the Zerg!!!!!
Really, I dont have a clue. Is your grandparent's house near the coast?
No.
Posted: 2005-06-21 10:36pm
by Wild Karrde
Sharpened one of the pics to try and mak it clearer.
Notice the long antennas and how the back two legs have three "toes".
Posted: 2005-06-21 10:40pm
by weemadando
So thats a "no" on the Weta theory?
Posted: 2005-06-21 11:06pm
by Superman
Definately an insect and not an arachnid. In other words, its not a spider.
I would say something similar to a Jerusalem Cricket.
Posted: 2005-06-21 11:24pm
by Wild Karrde
weemadando wrote:So thats a "no" on the Weta theory?
Yes.
Although they do look rather similar.
