Is this a cockroach? *INSECT PICS INSIDE*

those things are tiny compared to a cockroach lol

bleugh bugs yuk!

i feel all itchy now! i had 6 crane flies (daddy long legs) in my room the other day then a massive spider ran across the kitchen floor about 1mm from my foot :eek:

and apparently we are expected to have a LOT this winter
 
jellybeard999 said:
Non insect killing F T W :)

I hate people that squash spiders :(
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Ok I'll go with the above. I like the idea of supergluing a little parachute to its back and sending it on its way out the window. It would be like WTF :confused:

Remember those guys that used to superglue flies to tiny aeroplanes and make them "power" the model?
 
For comparison, cockroaches are a tad larger.

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Bug One said:
For comparison, cockroaches are a tad larger.
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YUK thats grim.

these are known in my house as "MAAAAAATT its one of those green things again"

at which point I know to (adopts arkwright voice a la open all hours) fetch a dyson.
 
secretspy said:
those things are tiny compared to a cockroach lol

bleugh bugs yuk!

i feel all itchy now! i had 6 crane flies (daddy long legs) in my room the other day then a massive spider ran across the kitchen floor about 1mm from my foot :eek:

and apparently we are expected to have a LOT this winter
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just for clarification
Crane Fies != Daddy long legs.
Daddy long legs are spiders,
Crane Flys are just evil.
 
VeNT said:
just for clarification
Crane Fies != Daddy long legs.
Daddy long legs are spiders,
Crane Flys are just evil.
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yes i know daddy long legs are spiders but so many people call crane flies that as well, it was even in the newspaper (and on the link you have for crane flies)

as said in the paper, they fly around like idiots not knowing where they are going then they just stick to things then hang there like an idiot (hmm sensing a pattern there..)

they only live for about 3 days

all this bug talk is making me itchy again
 
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secretspy said:
yes i know daddy long legs are spiders but so many people call crane flies that as well, it was even in the newspaper (and on the link you have for crane flies)

as said in the paper, they fly around like idiots not knowing where they are going then they just stick to things then hang there like an idiot (hmm sensing a pattern there..)

they only live for about 3 days

all this bug talk is making me itchy again
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Wikipidia said:
Crane flies (Tilupidae) are a family of insects resembling giant mosquitoes. Like the mosquito, they are in the order Diptera (flies). They are sometimes called mosquito eaters, lollygaggers, gallinippers, gollywhoppers, doizabizzlers, chicken flies, mosquito hawks, leather jackets, Jimmy Spinners or skeeter eaters. Crane flies are also incorrectly called Daddy longlegs along with two other species.

The life cycle is usually brief: egg, four larval stages, short pupal stage and short-lived adult. Life cycles among species vary from 6 weeks to 6 years [1]; typically 1 to 2 years in temperate species, and up to 5 years in some Arctic species. Crane flies occur from the Arctic to equatorial forests and even in some mountain ranges. Most species are associated with moist temperate environments. They can occur in amazingly diverse habitats. These include fresh water, intertidal zones, cliff faces with film of wet algal growth, moist bung holes and lichen, decaying wood, mud, loamy soils by streams, leaf mining (a Hawaiian species), decaying plant materials, fungi, organic matter in some bird and mammal nests, crop fields, and dry soils in lawns and pastures.
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they don't live that long when they get close to me tbh.
 
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Just to add to the crane fly/daddy long legs thing.

Has anyone ever told you the daddy long legs (reffering to a crane fly) is the most poisonous insect (spider) but it's teeth are too short to bite human skin? This myth is talking about the daddy long legs spider and not what we call crane flys in the UK. oh and the spiders venom is harmless too.

Ricky Gervias made this mistake on his "animals" dvd, which means poeple keep telling me this myth after they watch his show. Does my head in.

And for the original poster, this is what a cockroach looks like!
 
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Had a cockroach in my bathroom the other week but i'm pretty sure it crawled out the sewer inlet pipe which was exposed and uncovered while they had removed the toilet and sink.
 
had one of those in my room last night, thrown it out of the window and it flown back in lol didnt know they had wings even
 
jellybeard999 said:
Non insect killing F T W :)

I hate people that squash spiders :(
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You don't like killing insects, yet you are also against killing spiders which kill insects. I guess you'll just have to teach the spiders to be vegetarian ;)
 
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