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Offline Lee Root

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cool dude I photographed in the sage today.....
« on: November 06, 2009, 09:36:51 PM »
He probably won't make the record book....



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Re: cool dude I photographed in the sage today.....
« Reply #1 on: November 06, 2009, 09:47:34 PM »
no but he'd go nicely on a cracker with some cheese  :chuckle:
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Re: cool dude I photographed in the sage today.....
« Reply #2 on: November 06, 2009, 10:29:48 PM »
What is that? I have seen and smashed one before, what ever they are, they are pretty big bugs.

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Re: cool dude I photographed in the sage today.....
« Reply #3 on: November 06, 2009, 10:53:20 PM »
Mormon cricket.  Yuck!
As long as we have the habitat, we can argue forever about who gets to kill what and when.  No habitat = no game.

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Re: cool dude I photographed in the sage today.....
« Reply #4 on: November 06, 2009, 11:07:59 PM »
what do you mean yuck :EAT: :EAT: :EAT:
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Re: cool dude I photographed in the sage today.....
« Reply #5 on: November 07, 2009, 06:42:41 AM »
Just pick him up.  He'll take a bite out of you and you'll be saying more four letter words than yuck.  LOL

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Re: cool dude I photographed in the sage today.....
« Reply #6 on: November 07, 2009, 07:23:26 AM »
 :chuckle: :chuckle:

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Re: cool dude I photographed in the sage today.....
« Reply #7 on: November 07, 2009, 07:39:12 AM »
I thought it was a potato bug

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Re: cool dude I photographed in the sage today.....
« Reply #8 on: November 07, 2009, 08:28:17 AM »
I thought it was a potato bug

Same here, or at least that is what I always called them
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Re: cool dude I photographed in the sage today.....
« Reply #9 on: November 07, 2009, 08:40:27 AM »
In reality I think they are called....Jerusalem crickets, often termed potatoe bugs.   

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Re: cool dude I photographed in the sage today.....
« Reply #10 on: November 07, 2009, 04:29:11 PM »
follow this link:  potato bug, sand cricket, and Jerusalem cricket are all correct.  Lee

http://www.bentler.us/eastern-washington/insects/jerusalem-cricket.aspx

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Re: cool dude I photographed in the sage today.....
« Reply #11 on: November 07, 2009, 04:45:52 PM »
Just pick him up.  He'll take a bite out of you and you'll be saying more four letter words than yuck.  LOL

I was keeping it family-friendly!  Just substitute the 6th letter for the 25th!
As long as we have the habitat, we can argue forever about who gets to kill what and when.  No habitat = no game.

 


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