the newest form of wildlife to plague my existence however is the amazing jumping spider, also known as the camel cricket or the cave cricket. it looks like a nice big thick bodied and legged spider but it JUMPS. 2 feet in the air from a standstill. i have killed three in my bathroom this week. i killed two with a flyswatter and i made nacho kill one. from a sound sleep in another room he rushed to my aid hearing "nacho! nacho! get him! get him nacho! he's jumping! right there! nacho get him! jumping!" and the friendly polar bear cub batted at the cave cricket with his paw and off came a couple cave cricket legs and nacho looked at me like 'this is not food' and that was pretty much the end. i realize the wallpaper looks like a butterfly bamboo forest but it is not acceptable place for jumping insects to live.
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You are not alone in this. My crawlspace is infested with these curious critters.
You are not alone in this. My crawlspace is infested with these curious critters.
You are not alone in this. My crawlspace is infested with these curious critters.
Oh jesus what happened. I really am the redudancy king...
look at what time it was.
it might not show the same in all timezones, but my computer has them at 420, 420, 421 and 421, even though it was really 520 east coast time...so my computer is on central time maybe...do they show 420 everywhere? my brain has the shell on it...
maybe called a camel cricket because of its hump, which is how spanish-speakers might pronounce jump.
Asheville seems to be scary buggy
I see 'um as 420... :)
My house in VA was pretty much infested with those... and my Lab would help out by clumsily trying to sniff them, which would in effect, smoosh them in to the carpet. But they ARE pretty resilient and nasty... They would make a pretty disgusting *thwack* when they would jump into the paneling walls of our den. My roommate called them Camel Hoppers.
jason i know that disgusting thwack!
yes asheville has a lot of bugs. smoky mountains, full of wildlife.
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