There is a HUMONGOUS camel cricket in my kitchen.

[Jamastiene]

My aunt saw it in the dark, somehow, FREAKED, and called me in to rescue her.

I told her to be still. It wouldn't hurt her. She said, "Bullshit, they jump at you." I said, that's because they cannot see. She said bullshit again. The cats slept through the entire "what to do about it" argument. I told my aunt to just back up while I look for something to catch him in to take him outside. It told her it was harmless to humans and to stop freaking out.

I sabotaged the effort to capture him only partially on purpose. My aunt was giving me all kinds of confusing instructions. If she knew how to capture him, why didn't she do it? Oh, that's right. She wanted to kill him. I told her they won't bite you if you don't fuck with them. While we vehemently argued our capture-and-release vs kill-it positions, he ran under the stove and wouldn't come out. She just looked at me funny and drove back to her room as fast as she could and closed the door. :shrug:

I warmed up my chili in the microwave and came back in here. I used to live with a colony of those things in a shed back in the 90s. No biggie. He'll come back out sometime. I am just having a hard time freaking out over it. :shrug:

[Pierre.Suave]

1. Wow, I just google searched it

and yuck, I would not want one of those things in my kitchen.

[Jamastiene]

2. Compared to the GINORMOUS Carolina Wolf Spider I found in the

utility room and the scorpion we found in the hallway a while back, he's no problem. I live in what amounts to practically a jungle. He's one of the nicer bugs I've seen here. The rest bite and sting and try to kill me every time I go outside. :scared: This one is harmless. I just gotta lure him out.


I'll take him outside when he comes out. I am NOT moving the oven. That's entirely too much work. Besides, if I go move the oven, he'll just crawl right back under it wherever I move it to. That won't work. I'm looking for some method to lure him out, capture him and take him back outside. I'm thinking he came inside when I was unloading some groceries earlier.

[Jamastiene]

3. ROFLMAOPIMP You wasted ALL your shoes on it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7VYIzara9I

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

My side! Ouch! My side hurts!

[ashling]

4. Get a needle and see if you can get it to go through the eye

[Jamastiene]

5. It's HUGH!

I doubt it could even fit one leg through the eye. I may need a knitting needle. Got one I can borrow?

[ashling]

12. All I know is that its easier for a camelcriket to go through

the eye of a needle than for something:shrug:

[Digit]

6. Ask me why I tap my shoes nowadays before I put them on....

I have a pair of big ol plastic birkies I put on first thing in the morning. (aka clown shoes)
Well ONE morning, I am half asleep, putting them on when I felt something in one shoe that did not feel quite right...I could tell the "object" did not belong there....

Immediately, although still half asleep, I pulled my foot out and out hopped one of those damned camelback crickets. They are HUGE, and look more like humongous jumping spiders on crack.

Yes, it has been more than six months, but no matter HOW sleepy I am, I tap each shoe to the floor to see if a creature is hiding before I stick my piddies inside.

In fact, ANY shoe gets the tap these days before I put it on.

God forbid I lived in an an area with scorpions!

Oh, and the time I was on the toilet and one of those beasties jumped on my thigh, I lept off the toilet in mid-stream. Needless to say, papertowels were in order....

My daughter had a great laugh at my expense....til it happened to her one day.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

7. Sorry, but DEATH TO ALL CAMEL CRICKETS

Usually the cat will take care of that for us.

[Midlodemocrat]

9. No kidding. I get them in the garage and it sucks when I have to

go out there to get something from the fridge. The fuckers jump AT you. :scared:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

11. They aim for people

We've had two in the HOUSE in the last week. We don't have a garage, so I guess they feel the need to hang out in the house.

[THUNDER HANDS]

8. we have those in my basement

I killed one the other day in the kitchen, as a matter of fact. I sprayed it with Orange Glow. It killed it in like 10 seconds.

[libnnc]

10. they're all over our basement too

thankfully they are my cat's favorite prey