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Jerusalem Cricket

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Found one of these fellows in my garage this morning. Not a real cricket, but just called that. Non-Venomous flightless insect sometimes called a potato bug.

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Yikes - if I found one of those I'd probably still be on the roof. Wow.

Back in Texas (Beaumont) a euphemism for cockroach was "palmetto bug". In East Texas, some roaches were about 3 inches long. Better name, but just as repulsive.

TM
 
NutmegCT said:
Yikes - if I found one of those I'd probably still be on the roof. Wow.

Back in Texas (Beaumont) a euphemism for cockroach was "palmetto bug". In East Texas, some roaches were about 3 inches long. Better name, but just as repulsive.

TM
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I remember back when I first went to my technical school in Biloxi Miss in 1972. The first night in the barracks, I saw something I though was a mouse scamper in the darkness and run behind a water cooler. I turned on the lights and asked a friend to help me move the cooler to see if we could catch the "mouse." Nope, it wasn't a mouse - it was a palmetto bug.
 
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