what are these awful bugs

[Tiggeroo]

we've lived in this house for five years. All that time we've had problems with one particular bug. It looks like a cross between a spider and a cricket and it jumps like a cricket. They can get very big and have long skinny legs. They scare the crap out of me. They are always only in my bathroom and I know that's because there are tiny gaps around the pipes coming in. They are worst when it first gets cold.
My cat has discovered them and watches where they come in from. When one comes in he plays with it for hours and rips all it's legs off and eats them. This is good since he gets rid of it and bad since it's gross and often now I find legs smashed on the floor. He also will sometimes sit in the bathroom for hours waiting for one to come out.
We call them spider crickets.

 

[Tiggeroo]

 

[User Name]

I think they're plain ol' crickets. Do they make noise like crickets?

We get them, too (they make ANNOYING noise) - but usually in the spring/summer. I haven't seen a single one in the house since probably August. I have NO IDEA how they get in. They must be crafty little buggers, because I *think* they get in near my sliding patio door, because that's usually where I first see them. But, I've never actually seen them "get in."

I usually keep the vaccuum nearby and suck them up as soon as I see them. Last thing I want is them getting into my food, or God forbid, "multiplying" in the house IYKWIM.

 

[Tiggeroo]

no they don't make noise. They have more legs then crickets and look like a clear cross between crickets and spiders. I just looked them up. They are called spider crickets or cave or camel crickets. Ick.

 

[ToasterWaffle]

I believe that they are cave crickets. I had them in an apartment bathroom once.

Do yours lose their back legs if you spook them? Mine used to which was convenient for chasing them down and stomping them, but made the whole process surreal. Especially if only one back leg came off and they sort of spun in circles.

 

[Tiggeroo]

that might be why I find their legs in the bathroom. I figured it was the result of a battle with the maine coon

 

[lovetoscrap]

THOSE ARE SPRICKETS!!! They have been all over the WPASADI threads!!!

They are called cave crickets, but "Tim Gunn" of the WPASADI threads named them Sprickets because of the cross between spider and cricket.

Nasty little buggers!!!

 

[munchkin bunchkin]

Here we call the camel crickets! Those little buggers are hard to kill and even harder to catch unless you one of the cats!!

 

[Vallie]

omg thats soooo gross! just thinking of it makes me wanna

 

[Todd&Copper]

When I see them in the house, I suck them up in the vacuum b/c they are too hard to kill otherwise.

 

[SwedishMeatball]

When I see them in the house, I suck them up in the vacuum b/c they are too hard to kill otherwise.

Do you guys realize when you suck bugs up with your vacuum that they can still live and even crawl back out of the vacuum??

 

[laurie31]

<shudder>

They are cave crickets, but we call them "hoppy things"

They jump TOWARDS you! And they jump HIGH! I cannot STAND the things!

I nearly died at those pics above.

<shudders even more violently>

 

[tammy]

OMG!! I have those in my basement and cannot stand it. You're right, they do jump at you. You'd think they would jump away when they see you, but these things are bold. They left for about 3 weeks and I saw another one the other day.

 

[Princess89]

THOSE ARE SPRICKETS!!! They have been all over the WPASADI threads!!!

They are called cave crickets, but "Tim Gunn" of the WPASADI threads named them Sprickets because of the cross between spider and cricket.

Nasty little buggers!!!

Oh yes! The dreaded Spricket!
Camel or Cave crickets are their real names. They also bite too. I have them in the basement and the garage. With the way the weather has been the one thing I notice is that if its warm 50-60 degrees, they come out to play. When its cold like today is 40 and under, they are no where to be found.
I noticed them in the summer out on the back patio for the first time, and then one in the house

Following the summer, I have seen them in the house, never saw them before this year. In the spring, I will be calling an exterminator if I see them come out to play. They are nasty little things.

 

[Todd&Copper]

Do you guys realize when you suck bugs up with your vacuum that they can still live and even crawl back out of the vacuum??

Not when I watch them get torn to bits in the bagless vac!

 

[poohandwendy]

Maybe they are spickets? Just kidding, I have no idea what they are, but ewww, Iwould want them g-o-n-e!!!

 

[Lil_Tink]

Ick!!

 

[HugsForEeyore]

ACK!! We have had those things hopping around our house for 20 years!! No lie, I first remember seeing them in our house in the summer of 1986! Like another poster said, we call them "hoppers" or those "hoppy things!". And yes, they jump AT US if we swat at them! At our house, it is surreal nowadays. We are so used to them that if we see one, we just walk right by it! Sometimes we are all watching TV and one hops into the room, and none of us even get up anymore to chase it! We watch it walk around and eventually it disappears somewhere. The bugs love to sit on the backs of our wooden doors, so I am always careful when I open and close them, so make sure one doesn't jump at me when I pass though!

My dad bought this bug catcher stuff that looks like sticky yellow slime in a tray, and those trays have caught hundreds of those bugs since we first started using them. But UGH - once there in the house, it's hard to get rid of them!

 

[Tiggeroo]

i can't believe all these people have seen these things. I'm glad i'm not the only one freaked out about them and who thinks they jump at me.

 

[Sleepy]

We call them Ninja Crickets. They live in my brother's basement. Creepy