• NielsBohron@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 years ago

      In Nor Cal where I grew up, potato bugs are a totally different bug that looks like a cockroach fucked a grasshopper.

      edit: Apparently their real name is a “Jerusalem cricket” and they will bite the shit out of you if you let them.

        • MrJameGumb@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          2 years ago

          We have a similar bug here called a cave cricket! They look similar but cave crickets are harmless lol

          • Scubus@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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            2 years ago

            Not venomous or anything, but if it’s the same cave cricket or “spider cricket” we have here then they will also bite the shit out of you.

            • MrJameGumb@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              2 years ago

              The ones we have here can’t bite anything. If they get scared their only defense mechanism is to jump straight at the threat and hope to scare it away lol