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That is one ugly looking creepy crawler. No thanks.
And by the way, did you know the average person eats 13 spiders per year? This happens while we sleep, as our mouths are wide open the spider crawl inside, we half wake, closing our mouths, thus swallowing the spider. Just a pleasant thought for today
That may be why I have to have Benadryl hand for allergic reactions to something possibly spiders. I can have a very serious reaction and this would explain.
That is one ugly looking creepy crawler. No thanks.
And by the way, did you know the average person eats 13 spiders per year? This happens while we sleep, as our mouths are wide open the spider crawl inside, we half wake, closing our mouths, thus swallowing the spider. Just a pleasant thought for today
After finishing my previous post I decided to do some additional research. Yup I typed swallowing spiders into the search engine and came up with numerous hits about this being not true and another urban legend. Oh well it was interesting while it lasted. Keep the rep point as it had me believing. http://www.gazette.uwo.ca/2002/Novem...d_Culture5.htm
I grew up in East Tennessee, where such crickets do not exist. I moved to Middle Tennessee for college and one evening I was lying in bed when I noticed part of my leg was numb. I glanced over and noticed one of these buggers on the floor, and I immediately assumed I'd been bitten by some poisonous creature.
I grabbed it up in a sandwich bag and drove immediately to the hospital. The doctor comes in and asks what's wrong. I explained that I had a numb spot on my leg and found that creature in the floor.
He literally threw the sandwich bag over his should in a grand gesture and says, "well, that was a cricket, now let's figure out what's going on with your leg."
Just remember that dousing every insect you see with insecticide is far worse for your health than just tolerating the beasties. I too was wigged by the cave crickets when I first encountered them, but now I just coo softly to them when I'm crawling under the house and they seem to like it... no more jumping at my face.
Frankly, I'd rather deal with an entire crawlspace of cave crickets than even ONE waterbug... any day!
I saw those camel crickets all the time in Baltimore in the basement. JayAre is correct. I got a cat (for mice as well) and all the creatures disappeared in no time.
Those camel crickets do bite. It is harmless though. Feels like a wasp sting. I was bitten by one, and I have hated those things ever since. Our farm in Wilson is loaded with them. Never seen them here in Fuquay though.
These things are scary. I'm from IL but used to come to NC to visit every year as a child. I remember the colossal mosquitos and spiders but had never seen a camel cricket. Why didn't my mother warn me about these things! After all she's from here! LOL Anyway, now since I've moved to Raleigh I don't see them anymore, but when I was in Wake Forest - LORD HAVE MERCY!
Glad I'm back to civilization and out of the "woods".
Yeah- these things freak me out like no other insect. I'm a grown man and I will run from them. No shame.
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Oh well back to the lab
