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― S. (Sébastien Chikara), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

Mom?

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 17:21 (nineteen years ago)

its a pillbug.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 17:25 (nineteen years ago)

babelfish

― you can email me if you wish to challenge the truth (nickalicious), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 17:25 (nineteen years ago)

sowbug

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

That's Alphonse, right?

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

are all pillbug do the Morph Ball trick? because that one didn't.
google image pillbug shows they all have round back, but that one doesn't. xpost sowbug seems possible. must enquire more.

― S. (Sébastien Chikara), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 17:32 (nineteen years ago)

potato bug

― quincie (quincie), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

image + txt from bugguide.net for comparative purpose

http://bugguide.net/images/cache/OH8HBHGHFHSLNZIL8ZMLVZ8L9ZXLRRGHEZHLTHQLBH8HPZRLCHQL2ZSLCHMHPZSLAHXHPZSLPZRLOH0LEZZLVHZL.jpg
"There are two Families of Sow Bugs in the Golden Guide to Spiders and their kin. The two families are Oniscus and Porcellionidae. A close up of the end of the antennae helps distinguish between those two families. The O. Family has three segments in the small segmented end of the antennae, and the P. Family has two segments. I can only guess at IDs, but your photo resembles Porcellio scaber (known for its tubercles - little bumps - all over). I'm going to move your photo to the Sow Bug section."

― S. (Sébastien Chikara), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

shrimpy tourmaline

― schanden (ritual), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 17:41 (nineteen years ago)

and this one?

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y49/picturesref/waspy.jpg

― S. (Sébastien Chikara), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

xpost Baby Armadillo

― beeble (beeble), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

dalmatian mantis

― schanden (ritual), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

JUST BY SOME RAID, DR. LIVINGSTON

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 18:13 (nineteen years ago)

or
outterspace commerce? RAID MEANS RY

― schanden (ritual), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 18:22 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.killsbugsdead.com/i/raid_home_peglar_24.jpg

― schanden (ritual), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 18:25 (nineteen years ago)

Doh: one of my friends found an explosion of those in her pantry a little while ago! I had to hang out and kill them!

I decided to call them potatobugs, too, because that was one bug-name I was familiar with and because they looked like they'd enjoy potatoes, but it turns out potatobugs are white and slimy and look like pearl onions.

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 18:43 (nineteen years ago)

Wait, no, I was lied to! Potatobugs look like THIS GROSSNESS:

http://www.potatobugs.com/pix/images/potatobug_10.jpg

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 18:45 (nineteen years ago)

Though I dunno how much we should trust that image, since it comes from potatobugs.com, and they are probably trying to trick us (CONFLICT OF INTEREST, POTATOBUG HIVEMIND).

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJiHDqE7cbo

Bat-eating centipede!

― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

grossness b-yond this' starting to look like, i don't want to say it. that tv show no fear or something

― schanden (ritual), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

potatos or not, they are brooklinites for sure. they are everywhere :&

― schanden (ritual), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 19:04 (nineteen years ago)

Sowbugs are not insects—
Isopods?
They love moisture. Buy a dehumidifier. Mine pulls a couple of gallons of water out of my house every day this time of year.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

(no infestation problem here)

― S. (Sébastien Chikara), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 19:17 (nineteen years ago)

Oh my god that tru-potato bug is terrifying. I prefer faux-potato bugs. I swear that's what the Mormons call those rolly-polly bugs--potato bugs. I spent several years in Utah and there were loads of them, despite the fact Utah had no moisture to speak of!

― quincie (quincie), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 19:21 (nineteen years ago)

The ones that roll up into an indestructible-ish ball we call "pillbugs" in these parts.

― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 19:22 (nineteen years ago)

I just used to call 'em roly-polys. I think that's the technical name for the species.

― Allyzay will never stop making pancakes (allyzay), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 19:26 (nineteen years ago)

next bug? :)

― schanden (ritual), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 19:28 (nineteen years ago)

one of my friends found an explosion of those in her pantry a little while ago!

I misread "pantry" as "panties" for a second and was like HOLD UP.

― you can email me if you wish to challenge the truth (nickalicious), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 19:32 (nineteen years ago)

sowbugs/pillbugs/roly-poly's are CRUSTACEANS

― latebloomer aka rap's yoko ono (latebloomer), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 20:52 (nineteen years ago)

SHRIMPY tourmalines

― schanden (ritual), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 20:56 (nineteen years ago)

here is suspect #3
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y49/picturesref/hallo.jpg

― S. (Sébastien Chikara), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 22:35 (nineteen years ago)

could be a weevil?

― isadora (isadora), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 22:44 (nineteen years ago)

That one looks disturbingly like a piece of costume jewelry owned by my grandmother.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 23:09 (nineteen years ago)

As to type of insect, I'm going with "some kind of beetle."

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 23:10 (nineteen years ago)

that made me wonder. it would be nice to know, for sure, when the answers are posted in a drunk state you know what I mean?

― schanden (ritual), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 23:14 (nineteen years ago)

suspect #4

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y49/picturesref/biteey.jpg

― S. (Sébastien Chikara), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 23:37 (nineteen years ago)

throw the book at him.

― A Giant Mechanical Ant (The Giant Mechanical Ant), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 23:42 (nineteen years ago)

her..

― schanden (ritual), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 23:47 (nineteen years ago)

suspect #5

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y49/picturesref/roachy.jpg

― S. (Sébastien Chikara), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 23:50 (nineteen years ago)

suspect #6

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y49/picturesref/aureel.jpg

― S. (Sébastien Chikara), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 23:56 (nineteen years ago)

mis-trial on #5, obv.

― A Giant Mechanical Ant (The Giant Mechanical Ant), Thursday, 29 June 2006 00:00 (nineteen years ago)

For all your bug identifying needs... What's That Bug

― nickn (nickn), Thursday, 29 June 2006 00:05 (nineteen years ago)

"Asshole Fly"?

― Mr Jones (Mr Jones), Thursday, 29 June 2006 00:05 (nineteen years ago)

Someone please photoshop a baby face onto the potato bug for ultimate vileness!

― Jena (JenaP), Thursday, 29 June 2006 00:08 (nineteen years ago)

#6'swiming in the catskills pool under the sunshine

― schanden (ritual), Thursday, 29 June 2006 00:09 (nineteen years ago)

hey thanks for the link, nickn, it looks promising. I had in mind to try out a specialized forum when this thread will get bugged down/ feel it failed to produce a random googlin' entomology nerd that wants to save the day.

the last suspect, up to now, for the fun of it:

suspect#7
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y49/picturesref/gigantomoskito.jpg
other view of same suspect
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y49/picturesref/gigantomoskito2.jpg
My photographic approach was flawed with this one; it looks like any ol' moskito so I should have put my hand next to it (no coward) . it's a big.

and here is another one of suspect #2, not very good but we can see it's silhouette when it's at rest
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y49/picturesref/bitey2.jpg

― S. (Sébastien Chikara), Thursday, 29 June 2006 00:39 (nineteen years ago)

re: the first one - my dad always called that a "wood louse"

― Kim (Kim), Thursday, 29 June 2006 00:57 (nineteen years ago)

Oh wait, the things I killed a million of in that pantry (in Brooklyn, per Schanden) were more like suspect #6.

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 29 June 2006 01:05 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not going to be able to sleep tonight after watching the bat-eating centipede video. Thanks.

― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Thursday, 29 June 2006 01:27 (nineteen years ago)

Suspect #7 is a mosquito hawk or 'skeeter eater.'

Although I don't think they actually eat skeeters. They def. don't bite people, though.

― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Thursday, 29 June 2006 01:31 (nineteen years ago)

This thread is Exhibit #1 in why I have never taken a class in entomology.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Thursday, 29 June 2006 02:04 (nineteen years ago)

xtothe post ok thanks champs. that's a name I came across before today but a translation search confusion with dragonfly happened. they don't look quite the same yes.
by the way do you(y'all) think it have it's mouth through the screen to eat moskito on the outside perhaps?

― S. (Sébastien Chikara), Thursday, 29 June 2006 02:15 (nineteen years ago)

We can only hope.

― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Thursday, 29 June 2006 02:18 (nineteen years ago)

I think #7 may be what we call crane flies in California. Harmless to humans and suposedly they eat mosquitos or their eggs.

― nickn (nickn), Thursday, 29 June 2006 06:01 (nineteen years ago)

Not a baby's face but,

http://tlc.ousd.k12.ca.us/~acody/Images/jerusalem-cricket2.gif

Potato bugs are also called Jerusalem crickets, which I think was the name of Maggie and/or Hopey's band in the Love and Rockets comic.

― nickn (nickn), Thursday, 29 June 2006 06:06 (nineteen years ago)

#7 is a crane fly, yes. or as we call them in england - daddy long legs.

and kim is right on #1, wood louse.

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Thursday, 29 June 2006 07:47 (nineteen years ago)

Woodlice are called something funny in Scotland - is it a stogie or something?

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 29 June 2006 08:05 (nineteen years ago)

Slater?

― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 29 June 2006 08:17 (nineteen years ago)

You are aware that insects must have six legs, right? if you want a catch-all term for creepy crawlies, you can't go wrong with 'arthropod', as, and I quote "Approximately eighty percent of extant animal species are arthropods".

― chap who would dare to be a fucking annoying pedant (chap), Thursday, 29 June 2006 22:45 (nineteen years ago)

Mods, plz to rename thread "Bug-tacular!"

― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Thursday, 29 June 2006 22:49 (nineteen years ago)

Or "Arthropodelicious".

― chap who would dare to be a nerd, not a geek (chap), Thursday, 29 June 2006 23:06 (nineteen years ago)

Kim's got the UK vernacular for #1, it's called a woodlouse here, and presumably in canada. Pillbug in US I guess. The rest are a complete and terrifying mystery to me.

― Matt (Matt), Thursday, 29 June 2006 23:24 (nineteen years ago)

I doubt it's a common Canadian thing at all actually. I have heard other people here use that "sow bug" name that Huk mentioned, but my dad is one of you UKers sorta. English via South Africa variety.

― Kim (Kim), Friday, 30 June 2006 01:37 (nineteen years ago)

Interesting, in the States, daddy long-legs usually refers to this spider instead of the mosquito hawk.

― I will commence to drop a knowledge bomb. (Rock Hardy), Friday, 30 June 2006 01:50 (nineteen years ago)

"Crawlito's Way"

― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Friday, 30 June 2006 02:09 (nineteen years ago)

bugs are pretty much from hell

― A Giant Mechanical Ant (The Giant Mechanical Ant), Friday, 30 June 2006 02:57 (nineteen years ago)

grasshopper

― John W. Smoke, Jr. (Uri Frendimein), Friday, 30 June 2006 03:00 (nineteen years ago)

Anyone ever see the pictures of giant deep ocean pillbugs? They look identical to the variety you'd find in your basement, they're just two feet long. One of the pictures features one that looks like it's been COOKED.

― but if you fry them up with butter.. (mike h.), Friday, 30 June 2006 03:02 (nineteen years ago)

"koochie-koochie-coo"
http://www.s8int.com/images2/giantbug2.jpg

― A Giant Mechanical Ant (The Giant Mechanical Ant), Friday, 30 June 2006 03:27 (nineteen years ago)

http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/04etta/background/isopods/bathynomus_giganticus_220.jpg

― latebloomer aka rap's yoko ono (latebloomer), Friday, 30 June 2006 06:24 (nineteen years ago)

It's not an insect it's an isopod!

That one is definitely Porcellio scaber. My degree project involved dissolving its relative Oniscus assellus in concentrated nitric acid. I did kill them first (by squashing between finger and thumb). The aim of this project was to see how much heavy metal pollution there was down-wind of the zinc smelting plant in Avonmouth, near Bristol. A polluted site was compared with a site which was not down-wind of the smelter. Woodlice aka pillbugs aka sowbugs have an organ in their bodies called the hepatopancreas which purifies their (blue) blood and accumulates heavy metals within it, ergo woodlice can be used as a bioassay to determine how much pollution (zinc, cadmium, and lead) there is at a given site. If you want to read more (HA! AS IF!) you can check out the manuscript in the Geography library of the University of Bristol.

― Zoology Pedant MarkH (MarkH), Saturday, 1 July 2006 13:46 (nineteen years ago)

I want to defend sebastien for calling it an insect even though it ain't. More than six legs is no guarantee of non-insectitude you know, or have you forgotten about LARVAE?!!??!?!

― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Saturday, 1 July 2006 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

Yes but I am the Zoology Pedant.

― Zoology Pedant MarkH (MarkH), Saturday, 1 July 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

what's this little monster then?
http://www.usfca.edu/usf/photos/insect.gif

― A Giant Mechanical Ant (The Giant Mechanical Ant), Saturday, 1 July 2006 15:07 (nineteen years ago)

A dust mite?

― chap who would dare to be a nerd, not a geek (chap), Saturday, 1 July 2006 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

I believe that is a still picture from David Lynch's Dune. You can see Sting standing just behind its left from leg.

― nabisco (nabisco), Saturday, 1 July 2006 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.blimdanet.com/antiguos/manual64/lvtp4im.jpg

― schanden (ritual), Monday, 3 July 2006 04:07 (nineteen years ago)

a dust mite.

― schanden (ritual), Monday, 3 July 2006 04:11 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y49/picturesref/IMGP0397.jpg
What's That Bug here i come... or maybe U can identify it?

― Sébastien, Monday, 30 July 2007 01:46 (eighteen years ago)

some kind of caterpillar, that's all i can say for sure.

― latebloomer, Monday, 30 July 2007 02:22 (eighteen years ago)

seven years pass...

is this chap a bedbug? for my wife's sanity, i hope not
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B0LLI8hIIAA1Duo.jpg:large

― 𝑤𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑒 𠁢 (+ +), Friday, 17 October 2014 21:39 (eleven years ago)

Absolutely not.

― everything, Friday, 17 October 2014 22:10 (eleven years ago)

Have you had bedbugs before, or do you speak as a pro/amateur entymologist? And any idea what else it might be?

― 𝑤𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑒 𠁢 (+ +), Friday, 17 October 2014 22:51 (eleven years ago)

That's a weird one.

― how's life, Saturday, 18 October 2014 00:43 (eleven years ago)

Looks like some kind of weevil to me

― 龜, Saturday, 18 October 2014 00:52 (eleven years ago)

would need to see a slightly larger weevil for comparison's sake

― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Saturday, 18 October 2014 01:00 (eleven years ago)

and then you could console yourself that you had the lesser of t

― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Saturday, 18 October 2014 01:01 (eleven years ago)

/banned midpost

― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Saturday, 18 October 2014 01:01 (eleven years ago)

That's my favorite punchline.

― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Saturday, 18 October 2014 01:04 (eleven years ago)

all the hits

― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Saturday, 18 October 2014 01:06 (eleven years ago)

that might be a headlouse

― JLB Credit (Jack BS), Saturday, 18 October 2014 01:55 (eleven years ago)

Have you had bedbugs before, or do you speak as a pro/amateur entymologist? And any idea what else it might be?
― 𝑤𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑒 𠁢 (+ +), Friday, October 17, 2014 3:51 PM (3 hours ago)

I've spent years as a property manager for social housing. Don't recognise this but it's not a bedbug or any other common household pest in this part of the world.

― everything, Saturday, 18 October 2014 02:13 (eleven years ago)

That'll do for me.

― 𝑤𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑒 𠁢 (+ +), Saturday, 18 October 2014 02:57 (eleven years ago)

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