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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids (Orthoptera) » Long-horned Orthoptera (Ensifera) » Katydids, Camel Crickets, and relatives (Tettigoniidea) » Jerusalem Crickets (Stenopelmatidae) » Jerusalem Cricket (Ammopelmatus)
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what is this? - Ammopelmatus
Copyright © 2008 cristin

what is this? - Ammopelmatus
Venice, Los Angeles County, California, USA
November 11, 2008
Size: about 2 inches
We found this bug in our retail store. It was squeezing into a small area between a wall and a box. It is very strong because it was actually moving the box. We think it is a burrowing bug because when we brought it outside it immediately found leaves to hide under.
We have never seen an insect like this in the Venice area. We do get product shipments from all over the world, so we thought it may have jumped a ride in a box.
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Contributed by cristin on 11 November, 2008 - 2:29pm
Last updated 18 November, 2008 - 2:34pm

It's a native Jerusalem Cricket
see Stenopelmatus for more information.
… Hannah Nendick-Mason, 11 November, 2008 - 2:35pm login or register to post comments

 
Brother can you spare some change?
Apparently they have fallen on hard economic times as well, seems as how they are begging for pennies in the street:-)
… Eric R. Eaton, 11 November, 2008 - 2:38pm login or register to post comments

 
...
Very common thoughout Calfornia, seen several in the Bay Area. Guess it homing in the coin due to 'penny radar'. ;)
… Teresa Nemeth, 12 November, 2008 - 4:40pm login or register to post comments

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