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minus-squareCrewman@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·7 months agoPill bugs and potato bugs are some others I’ve heard.
minus-squareNielsBohron@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-27 months agoIn Nor Cal where I grew up, potato bugs are a totally different bug that looks like a cockroach fucked a grasshopper. edit: Apparently their real name is a “Jerusalem cricket” and they will bite the shit out of you if you let them.
minus-squareMrJameGumb@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 months agoWe have a similar bug here called a cave cricket! They look similar but cave crickets are harmless lol
minus-squareScubus@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·7 months agoNot venomous or anything, but if it’s the same cave cricket or “spider cricket” we have here then they will also bite the shit out of you.
minus-squareMrJameGumb@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·7 months agoThe ones we have here can’t bite anything. If they get scared their only defense mechanism is to jump straight at the threat and hope to scare it away lol
minus-squareHappycamperNZ@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 months agoThey look like a pale version of our Weta. But our bugs are chill. Little jumpy and spiky though.
Pill bugs and potato bugs are some others I’ve heard.
In Nor Cal where I grew up, potato bugs are a totally different bug that looks like a cockroach fucked a grasshopper.
edit: Apparently their real name is a “Jerusalem cricket” and they will bite the shit out of you if you let them.
Oh. No, thank you.
We have a similar bug here called a cave cricket! They look similar but cave crickets are harmless lol
Not venomous or anything, but if it’s the same cave cricket or “spider cricket” we have here then they will also bite the shit out of you.
The ones we have here can’t bite anything. If they get scared their only defense mechanism is to jump straight at the threat and hope to scare it away lol
They look like a pale version of our Weta.
But our bugs are chill. Little jumpy and spiky though.