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taurus529

Registered: 11/21/13
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Alien invasion, experiences with potential pests? 1
#25629644 - 11/21/18 10:15 AM (6 years, 1 month ago) |
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I live in the mid-west and have been in my home 10+ years. I have researched the hell out of this thing and apparently these Camel Crickets have been around forever but never before in my life have I ever seen an insect like this. Neither has anyone I have shown this picture to among my family or friends.
I have seen 7 of these things total in my house in the last three weeks. It first occurred a few days after we raked and bagged 16 bags of leaves. I did notice the day we did this that the leaves were very wet and the aroma outside was one I was quite familiar with, a fragrant mushroomy smell. The reading I have done on this terrifying alien bug says they love to eat fungus. They are apparently blind but have good sense of smell.
I'm thinking we must have attracted them in the day we did all that leaf bagging. Either we carried them in on clothing or we took away their food source outside. They also apparently will eat carpet, cotton, wood, and even one another if they can't find fungus.
I have never had a pest issue with any previous grows and I can't imaging there's anyway I have attracted these things inside with colonizing jars in a cabinet. Of course my husband keeps teasing me saying they are coming for my "children".
These things terrify me. They jump so high and are just ..omg Idk... just terrifying! I literally peed myself a little when I came across this one in the image, inside my washing machine! We do not have a basement, which is where they are normally found. Sorry, but nothing about these is normal to me. My teen son calls them spider-cricket-roach-lobsters. I call them Criders or Sprickets.
On a few pest control pages I have read that these things can be troublesome for mushroom operations. However, I have not found any info detailing any actual experiences with them. Has anyone here ever had issues with these? Could they really be attracted to a little shelf of jars in a cabinet? Dear Gawd I hope not. My fear is one day I wake up and go to the SGFC and see them all over it. As scary as these things already are, I can't imagine an encounter with a bunch of tripping spider-cricket-roach-lobsters!
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Buck513
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Re: Alien invasion, experiences with potential pests? [Re: taurus529] 1
#25629651 - 11/21/18 10:17 AM (6 years, 1 month ago) |
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taurus529

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Re: Alien invasion, experiences with potential pests? [Re: Buck513]
#25629682 - 11/21/18 10:34 AM (6 years, 1 month ago) |
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Yeah that is about how I feel … that or something related to fire
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Puddles84
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Re: Alien invasion, experiences with potential pests? [Re: taurus529] 1
#25629691 - 11/21/18 10:37 AM (6 years, 1 month ago) |
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Your son named them properly. That thing is FUCKED looking.
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taurus529

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Re: Alien invasion, experiences with potential pests? [Re: Puddles84]
#25629705 - 11/21/18 10:45 AM (6 years, 1 month ago) |
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They paralyze me in my tracks, seriously LOL! I have yet to hear anyone say oh, yeah I know what those are. Nope! I think it's some kind of new thing, I don't care what google says. My cat caught one this morning, took most of it's legs off.
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Guy on a buffalo
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Re: Alien invasion, experiences with potential pests? [Re: taurus529] 1
#25629709 - 11/21/18 10:47 AM (6 years, 1 month ago) |
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I used to have house centipedes. Big fuckers with long ass legs and fast as fuck. I went to all out war with em and now only occasionally see one.
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Astonish
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Re: Alien invasion, experiences with potential pests? [Re: Guy on a buffalo]
#25629716 - 11/21/18 10:51 AM (6 years, 1 month ago) |
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This is in the wrong section. This is for mushroom cultivation not for bugs.
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Guy on a buffalo
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Re: Alien invasion, experiences with potential pests? [Re: Astonish] 1
#25629721 - 11/21/18 10:53 AM (6 years, 1 month ago) |
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Astonish said: This is in the wrong section. This is for mushroom cultivation not for bugs.
Not if your worried the bugs are a product of your cultivation or could negatively affect it...easy killer
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Apc123
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Re: Alien invasion, experiences with potential pests? [Re: Guy on a buffalo] 1
#25629740 - 11/21/18 11:00 AM (6 years, 1 month ago) |
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Get a bearded dragon it will love to eat them all up I live in ky, they have these in mammoth caves here. They are so big and scary. I don't like bugs but they normally don't bother except spiders and these thing bedside they look like a big spider. Ugh gives me chills
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Re: Alien invasion, experiences with potential pests? [Re: Guy on a buffalo] 1
#25629774 - 11/21/18 11:15 AM (6 years, 1 month ago) |
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I'm sorry, I realise this won't answer your question in any way, but it reminds me of an interesting story that happened to me recently. I was putting my shopping into my car at a shopping centre car park when this insect which I had never seen before seemed to fall from the sky onto my car and then fell to the ground where it was flopping around erratically. I thought it must have been some kind of locust or grasshopper or something, but it's long powerful looking legs were bent backwards, and as I know now, more adapted to swimming than hopping. I took a pic of it and had a friend of a friend identify it as a Water Boatman. The strange thing is, that is an aquatic species, and this car park was miles from a body of water, so how did it get there?
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taurus529

Registered: 11/21/13
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Re: Alien invasion, experiences with potential pests? [Re: Astonish]
#25630368 - 11/21/18 03:35 PM (6 years, 1 month ago) |
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Astonish said: This is in the wrong section. This is for mushroom cultivation not for bugs.
The reading I have done kept saying these insects can be troublesome for mushroom operations. Are mushroom operations not the same as mushroom cultivation? I could find no other information regarding exactly what type of mushrooms they eat or what troubles they can cause. Before posting, I did a search of the forums for key words and didn't find anything. So, that is why I posted in here. I am very curious to know if anyone here had experiences with these things and if so what, if any, has the impact been to their grow?
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Failboat
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Re: Alien invasion, experiences with potential pests? [Re: taurus529] 1
#25630376 - 11/21/18 03:40 PM (6 years, 1 month ago) |
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I seen em in closets and bathrooms occasionally. They're weird and creepy, but harmless.
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taurus529

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Re: Alien invasion, experiences with potential pests? [Re: Apc123]
#25630383 - 11/21/18 03:43 PM (6 years, 1 month ago) |
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I did see a couple videos on YouTube of a guy feeding them to his cichlids. I have two large tanks of cichlids. I am just so freaked out by these things. That will be a job for my husband and cats to de-leg them to get them grounded lol.
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taurus529

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Re: Alien invasion, experiences with potential pests? [Re: Failboat]
#25630402 - 11/21/18 03:52 PM (6 years, 1 month ago) |
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Quirkmeister92 said: I seen em in closets and bathrooms occasionally. They're weird and creepy, but harmless.
That's what I keep reading, that they are pretty harmless. They are apparently capable of carrying some type of parasite but supposedly it's harmless to humans.
I did see the first one in my bathroom and the rest have been near my washing machine and water heater. We injected the walls with boric acid and put it behind the areas where we've seen them, as well as in the crawl space under the house.
So far, I have found none near my colonization cabinet and hopefully that doesn't change when we put them into their fruiting area. There is very little info out there on these things. If I happen to have an experience with them that affects the grow I will definitely document and post about it.
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Proton
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Re: Alien invasion, experiences with potential pests? [Re: taurus529]
#25630435 - 11/21/18 04:01 PM (6 years, 1 month ago) |
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taurus529 said: They paralyze me in my tracks, seriously LOL! I have yet to hear anyone say oh, yeah I know what those are. Nope! I think it's some kind of new thing, I don't care what google says. My cat caught one this morning, took most of it's legs off.
Sorry to hear that, hope your cat gets better
Just kidding but fuck man, those things look scary af, hope you can get rid of em
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