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[-] Crewman@sopuli.xyz 29 points 1 year ago

Pill bugs and potato bugs are some others I've heard.

[-] NielsBohron@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

[-] Crewman@sopuli.xyz 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Scubus@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year 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.world 2 points 1 year 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

[-] HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

They look like a pale version of our Weta.

But our bugs are chill. Little jumpy and spiky though.

[-] NielsBohron@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I have a deep-seated irrational fear of bugs large enough to "pop" when you step on them, and I think it stems from growing up around these monstrosities. They're not as bad as bugs in a lot of places, but goddamn does it hurt to get bit by them, especially as a child.

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