Camel Crickets Are Back

CBS2’s Jennifer McLogan reports.

[reneewhite]

Am i the only one that always called them spider crickets?

[Bellia]

I know that they are mostly harmless, and I am not usually afraid of insects but these things are terrifying.

[haz]

Person: And who's your parents?


Cricket: A spider and a normal cricket.

[dyslexicdarling]

Cave crickets and house centipedes are probably the two things that kept me up at night if I didn't catch them

[Cyrillic_]

3 years later...

YouTube recommendations: Release the crickets!!

[afterlife]

This is going to be in everyone’s recommendations in a couple years

[S_Alexander]

‘are you sure you want to delete Earth permanently? This action cannot be undone’

[JLviper]

My cat loves them. He gets to hunt and have a snack between meals.

[robertheller]

As a guy with a pet lizard I see this as a good thing

[idkwhattosayhere]

why is this being recommended to me exactly 3 years later

[francismeowgannou]

"They are trying to scare us and it's working." Lmao.

[ramslak]

You are all waaaay to afraid!
These are really fun and harmless animals, I nurtured a population to 200-300 big in a fishtank together with my millipedes, huge cockroach and flower beetles. If you give them a chance and actually observe them they are really fun.
They dance around females doing dorky dances with their small wings (they can't fly), headbutt each other like goats or pull each others legs when fighting over females or food.
And if you throw a handful of peas in the tank and step back you see dancing peas. Their camouflage will make them hard to see from a distance so you just see the peas bounce all over the place. Grown crickets can lift up a single pea, and they don't like to share them :P

Anyway, give the weird/scary things in life a chance and you might find great joy in them :)

[lilpd]

I call em spider crickets or “sprickets”

[raylizmattox]

*grabs flamethrower*

*PEACE WAS NEVER AN OPTION*

[hexkobold]

I had these things colonize my basement almost a decade ago. It's not just that they're ugly - They're also completely silent and they jump very high and spontaneously. Usually I didn't have to deal with them but occasionally the cats would bring live ones upstairs.

[unsliner]

I can't wait to get an Emperor Scorpion as a pet and I won't need to buy food for it.

[SoulConsumer]

I found one on my bathroom.





Now I have PTSD.

[nojam]

I’m so glad that they’re not common in America I’d cry

[Jaystaywavy]

Even though they are harmless when they jump it never fails to give you a jump scare

[primroseinmypocket]

Me who lives in England: *what tf are those things”