What is this thing? Some horrible cross between a grasshopper and a cockroach? I really haven't been able to identify this thing. I have other pictures this forsaken thing, with its armored head and roach-like limbs. Any ideas, anybody?
Then we have this, the largest praying mantis I've ever seen.
This thing was 7 or 8 inches long, about twice as big as any mantis I'd ever seen before.
I live two miles from the church and we don't a fraction of the fauna the church property does. Snakes, frogs, ground hogs, raccoons, deer, endless varieties of birds and more insects than any place you've ever seen.
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Ask Jerad. He was an entomology geek in 4H and always knows what bugs are what.
J was also an entomology geek...I mean expert. He thinks it is a mole cricket but can't quite see the front feet to make a definitive identification.
YEAH! The Coopers are geniuses!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mole_cricket
That's exactly what it is! I found two of them within 5 minutes in the main room at church one Saturday. I killed the first one, then captured the second one and left it in a cup on Jared's desk as a gift.
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