Anyone good at identifying bugs?(pic here - not interesting)

Post by **tnf** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 9:13 pm

Unfortunately, I expunged all my entymology knowledge after college, mainly because I hate bugs. I've found two of these little bastards in the apartment lately, and it's got my wife wondering where they came from, since she keeps this place clean with a Naz-esque fervor.

Here he is:

Only about 6mm or so long.

Post by **CaseDogg** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 9:15 pm

they flying roaches :icon19: you must live in the hood! :icon19:

Post by **CaseDogg** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 9:19 pm

google "flying roach"

Post by **tnf** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 9:20 pm

Would you respect me more or less for that?

Post by **tnf** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 9:23 pm

Close, but I don't think so. Head shape is different, not the pronounced lines up the dorsal part of the thorax, but who knows...

Post by **CaseDogg** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 9:23 pm

tnf wrote:Would you respect me more or less for that?

doesn't bothyer me either way cuz i lived in the hood when my mom first died and i had then too! :icon19: but it's kinda hard to get rid of them they fuckin lay egg EVERYWHERE!!!

out here alllll the homey got raoches.

Post by **tnf** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 9:23 pm

Also, the legs didn't have the numerous little 'hairs'.

Post by **CaseDogg** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 9:24 pm

easpecially in apartment biuldings.

Post by **tnf** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 9:26 pm

Here's my theory - which the wife really doesn't want to hear, is that the fucker probably flew in through the window that was open last night. She's afraid of infestation, so I get to be in charge of solving the mystery to avoid the problem. I think I'll just keep the windows closed and tell her I got some special traps and spray to kill the larvae.

Post by **inolen** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 9:28 pm

CaseDogg wrote:easpecially in apartment biuldings.

<img src="http://www.retro-electro.co.uk/HANDHELD/speak&spellbig.jpg">

:icon26:

Post by **CaseDogg** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 9:29 pm

just keep you eyes out, if you see more over the next week or so i would bomb the place. that's what we hadda do all the time.

Post by **CaseDogg** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 9:30 pm

inolen wrote:
CaseDogg wrote:easpecially in apartment biuldings.
<img src="http://www.retro-electro.co.uk/HANDHELD/speak&spellbig.jpg">

:icon26:

:icon19: i need one of them!!! imma search e-bay! :icon19:

Post by **tnf** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 9:31 pm

Also - roaches are not at all common to this part of the country.

Post by **CaseDogg** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 9:32 pm

tnf wrote:Also - roaches are not at all common to this part of the country.

i touch that, the weather and stuff can have an affect. we also get MAD ants when it gets hot. thay come in from everywhere. shit is wack.

Post by **CaseDogg** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 9:37 pm

funny thing is when you usta havein raoches yo ass buy yo food selectively, like theres no fuckin way imma get raisin braind and risk one of the raisins not bein a raison. shit, i went and got BIG ass tupper wear for the second you open yo cerial you pour that whole thing into a tupper wear cuz they will get in that shit. :icon19: but you get usta livin in the hood like that. it just becomes funny.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 10:21 pm

Hello tnf.

Reassured your girl friend telling her it's not coming from the outside window but probably more often from the grocery
store from a boxe or a bag.

A friend of mine already found a scorpion within a man of bananas,
We are in Canada and we don't grow bananas here and we don't
have scorpion, just mosquitos, so they probably
came from the south or Africa.

Pete

Post by **tnf** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 11:20 pm

pete wrote:Hello tnf.

Reassured your girl friend telling her it's not coming from the outside window but probably more often from the grocery
store from a boxe or a bag.

A friend of mine already found a scorpion within a man of bananas,
We are in Canada and we don't grow bananas here and we don't
have scorpion, just mosquitos, so they probably
came from the south or Africa.

Pete

Possibly, but generally we deal with drosophila melanogaster problems with fruit from the stores...not this so much.

I'm a molecular biologist who doesn't know much about insects, unfortunately.

It isn't a species of roach, though, of that I am almost 100% certain.

Post by **Dr_Watson** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 11:33 pm

but that really does look like a roach.

Post by **inphlict** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 11:34 pm

No idea what that is, but it doesn't look like a regular roach at least in Canada.

Post by **HM-PuFFNSTuFF** » Sun Mar 13, 2005 12:01 am

from the looks of it I'd guess either a diptera (fly ) or an neuroptera due to the vein-like wings. Have you seen these things in flight?

There's a small chance it's a type of cockroach (blattaria) but I doubt it.

Post by **CaseDogg** » Sun Mar 13, 2005 12:16 am

i still think it's a roach too.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Mar 13, 2005 12:20 am

Well, I think it doesn't matter much as what type of
bug it is, as much as where it came from, specially
to reassure his girl friend. These are innofensive anyway,
just gross. You'll find them more often in restaurent's cuisine
and the weird fact is that... If you have cockroaches it mean
you have good cuisine. Strange but I read that a couples of times.

BTW...Did you know that there is more bacteries on your telephone hand set. keyboard and mouse, than on a public toilet seat?

Pete

Post by **HM-PuFFNSTuFF** » Sun Mar 13, 2005 12:36 am

Okay I'm revising what I said because after looking at the bug more I'm wrong.

Could be a cockroach. Does it have 5 body segments?

It might be a hymenoptera. Does it have chewing mandibles? Do the antennae have 10 or more segments?

With a slight chance it's some sort of Plecoptera. That is my final and completely amateur opinion.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Mar 13, 2005 12:48 am

HM-PuFFNSTuFF wrote:Okay I'm revising what I said because after looking at the bug more I'm wrong.

Could be a cockroach. Does it have 5 body segments?

It might be a hymenoptera. Does it have chewing mandibles? Do the antennae have 10 or more segments?

With a slight chance it's some sort of Plecoptera. That is my final and completely amateur opinion.

Men...I realize more and more that there are plenty of talented
people here. Just as testo...............

Imagine if we could brainstorm all together what we would
came up with?

Pete

Post by **losCHUNK** » Sun Mar 13, 2005 12:51 am

pete wrote:
HM-PuFFNSTuFF wrote:Okay I'm revising what I said because after looking at the bug more I'm wrong.

Could be a cockroach. Does it have 5 body segments?

It might be a hymenoptera. Does it have chewing mandibles? Do the antennae have 10 or more segments?

With a slight chance it's some sort of Plecoptera. That is my final and completely amateur opinion.
Men...I realize more and more that there are plenty of talented
people here. Just as testo...............

Imagine if we could brainstorm all together what we would
came up with?

Pete

lol, we cant even build a quake tower