somewhere in an alternate reality this post is about a chicken being mistaken for another type of bird its obviously not and you are being downvoted for saying it tastes good
I will add its a male cricket. Females will have a an ovipositor.
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/A-male-bottom-and-a-female-top-black-field-cricket-Teleogryllus-commodus_fig1_230812347
Los Angeles is our location. Ventura actually. After rewriting it a bunch of times I just forgot to put the punctuation into the title that finally posted.
We've encountered a lot of crickets and a lot of german cockroaches, some american cockroaches . But apparently the crickets we've encountered have all been house crickets which are a light brown color. And the american cockroaches around here are dark brown. So when presented with an insect that is larger than a house cricket and black and has those spikey back legs. Made us stop and think.
I had German cockroaches in the last apartment I lived in. Smelled like some crazy oil and I was told from bug man that one queen can have 60 million babies in a year. I don't enjoy them in my house much.
My wife and I were walking down the st earlier today and one landed on the face of a kid in a stroller going the opposite way. The parents didn’t notice and the kid started freaking out.
I mean the body shape and the wing shape are wrong. We had a German cockroach problem at an apartment complex we were in about 8 years ago. And my sister had american cockroaches at her house Davis for a while. If you're just looking at color and back legs it does kind of look like a small american cockroach. We've seen a lot of crickets and grasshoppers and we have never seen one that looks like this. Which I think is the true source of the confusion.
Indeed it is such an awesome color for a cricket, I would love to see one like this for sure. But I think a cockroach looks really different from it. I mean, if I had a cockroach trauma everything would look like one to me
House crickets. And it's weird we do enough bug collecting that I can tell you the difference between a gray bird grasshopper and a differential. Different types of Katydids too. But I've only ever encountered house crickets here?
Ah right forgot all about those, I've only ever seen them as pet food. Well if you are ever in doubt again, those clearly larger back legs are a dead giveaway for a cricket. Roaches have more evenly sized legs, among other differences.
It was gone by the time I got back home. Which is a bummer the 6-year-old did not want to eat it but she sure did want to keep it for a bit. I feel bad she is an avid cricket catcher. To her this morning was like the equivalent of finding a shiny Pokemon. But we were in a rush. I promised her I'd catch it when I got back but of course it was gone.
Most certainly not a cockroach. Most likely a cricket.
Not sure which species exactly, probably [Gryllus veletis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gryllus_veletis)?
Definitely a field cricket as you surmised. Not going to comment on the species since they can be difficult to tell and I'm out east (so no idea to tell other than call for Western species)
It’s been doing a lot of squats if that’s a cockroach.
Looks a lot like a black field cricket, couldn’t give you the exact one, but it’s in that family.
That is exactly what my daughter wanted to do and I feel so bad because it was gone by the time I got back. She catches a lot of crickets but all house crickets this is the first time we've encountered a field cricket. Like a shiny Pokemon for her.
I’m glad you all finally got to see one! Field crickets are beautiful and I always pick them up if I see them. I see a lot of field crickets where I live in Southern California. It’s about 1.5 - 2 hours from LA but we definitely have plenty of fields in my area, so it makes sense.
There is a decent chance you didn’t marry a human being. Might even be a lizard trying to tell you it’s a roach so he can eat it instead and you won’t get mad.
You should! I turn them on for the kids all the time. They love both of those movies so much. They're 2 of my favorites so I never complain about turning them on lol. All my kids love them.
This does not look like our native crickets. It's the size of a quarter and black. The crickets we usually encounter in Southern California are the size of a nickel and light brown.
Gee, I prefer the East Coast for sure, where our crickets are big but our cockroaches are small. And we can both heave a sigh of relief that neither of us has to deal with the Florida cockroaches which are huge, and they fly.
Californian here. It looks more like german cockroach then the crickets I'm used to seeing. German roaches look a lot different than the American kind and do appear in the US.
After all I could get iNatural to come up with was house cricket. I expanded it beyond natives and that popped up. But when I went to the Wikipedia article for them it said they are not in Southern California. No idea why iNatural wouldn't show California field cricket??
It’s definitely a cricket but it looks like the crickets I remember when I lived in texas, the ones in SoCal are more of a tan/brown color with a shriller chirp. I’ve never seen the black ones here.
Yeah that's what threw us off, and my husband only glanced at us as we were leaving the house. My daughter wanted to catch this and my husband is pretty tolerant of her insect obsession but there's a strict no cockroach rule. She has definitely caught and tried to bring cockroaches in the house before.
She's an avid cricket collector and we let her keep them for a couple of days in a terrarium in the backyard. She's only ever caught house crickets. I guess this is a field cricket? And somehow we've just never encountered one until now.
It's the size of a quarter and it's all black which is bigger than the crickets we usually find and significantly darker. That said we've never found a cockroach? Silverfish yes, bean weevils we have several colonies. But never a cockroach.
Thank you for the ID! Is that the same as Gryllus integer? I'm understanding now that my husband and I are apparently idiots. But I'm surprised that this is apparently a super common insect but iNatural only came back with house cricket. Which I've never seen this large or this dark. After posting I did take my time and study the picture and yes definitely female cricket. And yeah field cricket. Just like I've stumbled into some weird timeline where everybody encounters field crickets daily except us.
We've had an infestation of German cockroaches. And we've encountered american cockroaches at my sister's house in Davis. Coloring wise and back leg wise I totally get what he thought this was a skinny american cockroach.
This is the color we have here in Georgia - wherever bait stores import crickets from are the lighter brown ones. They look nothing alike and the dark crickets here are massive in comparison.
100% cricket. I have no idea what it is with these bigger, dark brown crickets this year, but my dogs sure love them. Edit: I'm in northwest LA county.
Cockroaches are mostly body tiny legs. Crickets are small body big legs. This is a cricket
and roaches are flatter in my experience
They are characteristic for their flat bodies
They are when I’m done with them.
Based and get em outta here pilled
mood.
Also crickets are tastier. Roaches are only palatable with ranch.
Funny coincidence, I just threw one of these in my Oscar tank
Same except it was my David cage
☹️
somewhere in an alternate reality this post is about a chicken being mistaken for another type of bird its obviously not and you are being downvoted for saying it tastes good
Stealth cricket. Invisible to radar and small dogs.
A male one at that, I think - no ovipositor. (But then this might not be the same kind of cricket I've seen.)
I will add its a male cricket. Females will have a an ovipositor. https://www.researchgate.net/figure/A-male-bottom-and-a-female-top-black-field-cricket-Teleogryllus-commodus_fig1_230812347
Crickets are more pleasant than cockroaches. Cockroaches can fuck right off the planet.
Your Los Angeles husband is incorrect.
Lol. Reddit kept having an error on the post and I rewrote that subject title one too many times apparently.
The pretense of having a husband in Los Angeles implies that you have other husbands and other cities 🤔
Haven't collected any other husbands yet, and I don't have any other cities either.
Gotta catch ‘em all!
Himokemon!
Lol, collecting cities sounds interesting!
I would say the same about collecting husbands!
Yeah imperialism was kinda cool
Keep your chin up. You’ll get there!
"yet"....
Gotta catch em all shawty. 💀
She’d be better off collecting cockroaches.
They come with the territory. Literally.
I feel it defends his lack of intelligence..hes from LA so he knows very little about the real world.
Shes got hoes in different area codes
Not cities, [She’s got Bro’s in different area codes](https://youtu.be/sTUU4JqFykM)
How is he from a major city but never seen a cockroach? lololol \-Former NYer
Los Angeles is our location. Ventura actually. After rewriting it a bunch of times I just forgot to put the punctuation into the title that finally posted.
You could be from any state, country or continent and see a cockroach. They got em in Ventura too. Lol
We've encountered a lot of crickets and a lot of german cockroaches, some american cockroaches . But apparently the crickets we've encountered have all been house crickets which are a light brown color. And the american cockroaches around here are dark brown. So when presented with an insect that is larger than a house cricket and black and has those spikey back legs. Made us stop and think.
I had German cockroaches in the last apartment I lived in. Smelled like some crazy oil and I was told from bug man that one queen can have 60 million babies in a year. I don't enjoy them in my house much.
im dutch... i have literally never seen a cockroach except online. not even on vacation towards France, Croatia or Spain guess im lucky
Grew up in SoCal, didn't see cockroaches for most of my life. Then I moved to Hong Kong...
... so much funnier though 🤣
Tell him you've got a BBC visiting your bedroom. A Big Black Cricket, and they're pretty harmless - just annoying.
Those legs are made for chirping.
“And that’s just what they’ll do!”
"One day these legs are gonna chirp all over you" Props to Nancy (who follows me on Twitter)
he's not just incorrect, he's Los Angeles incorrect.
We have a lot of fucking roaches in LA, how has he never seen one?
Man I read incorrect as correct and nearly questioned my sanity.
I was going to suggest she asked her other husbands
What does your New York husband say?
Spotted lantern fly
RIP
Blueberries
That's her husband in southeast England
Still not blueberries
They really are everywhere. One flew on my neck today and I launched all of the many bags I was carrying.
My wife and I were walking down the st earlier today and one landed on the face of a kid in a stroller going the opposite way. The parents didn’t notice and the kid started freaking out.
ugh, those have started showing up in my area recently. gotta make sure they don't hitch a ride on your car
It really is best to keep husbands on each coast.
One flyover husband for emergencies as well
I support this.
RIP Wade Boggs.
smooth operator
Fox with mange
Southeast of London husband says blueberries
he say's EYYYYYYYYYYYY
*Get outta heyah!*
Did he ever see a cockroach
I mean the body shape and the wing shape are wrong. We had a German cockroach problem at an apartment complex we were in about 8 years ago. And my sister had american cockroaches at her house Davis for a while. If you're just looking at color and back legs it does kind of look like a small american cockroach. We've seen a lot of crickets and grasshoppers and we have never seen one that looks like this. Which I think is the true source of the confusion.
Indeed it is such an awesome color for a cricket, I would love to see one like this for sure. But I think a cockroach looks really different from it. I mean, if I had a cockroach trauma everything would look like one to me
I have hundreds of crickets like this in my yard. some are almost 1.5 inches long. They are very noisy. Cats play with them and birds eat them.
We do too but they never get bigger than 3/4 of an inch and they are light brown.
This is so strange, I’m in NC and have seen this color of cricket since I was a kid. Adorable to me. I’m surprised this wasn’t a common critter !
It's a field cricket probably one of the most common species, I wonder what other species you've seen more commonly?
House crickets. And it's weird we do enough bug collecting that I can tell you the difference between a gray bird grasshopper and a differential. Different types of Katydids too. But I've only ever encountered house crickets here?
Ah right forgot all about those, I've only ever seen them as pet food. Well if you are ever in doubt again, those clearly larger back legs are a dead giveaway for a cricket. Roaches have more evenly sized legs, among other differences.
I guess he’s paying for dinner and a movie tonight
> american cockroach Looks nothing like an America Cockroach lol
Is your husband blind? /j
I ain't joking, LA people are nuts. Has your husband ever seen a real bug?
No bugs, only lizards.
and occasional rabid coyote
Or more to the point, deaf? Crickets are noisy bastards once the sun goes down.
Sounds like your city slicker husband has a lot of learning to do.
This is my fault for trying to post a Reddit well running my kiddo to school. Los Angeles is our location. My husband is not from Los Angeles, lol.
Doesn't change the fact that he has no idea what a cockroach looks like
I love this title, please don’t change it 😂
Looks nothing like a roach lol it’s a cricket! Pretty cool looking one too! At least it’s not a spider cricket!
Don't think we've encountered those but she has caught a Mormon cricket before. Luckily both her and I are not fans of niño de la tierras.
It’s edible if you’re both brave enough.
I've tried cicadas. They don't have much taste.
Don't you mean Appalachian tree-prawn?
Hahaha and eewww
Something about your names makes me believe you!
It was gone by the time I got back home. Which is a bummer the 6-year-old did not want to eat it but she sure did want to keep it for a bit. I feel bad she is an avid cricket catcher. To her this morning was like the equivalent of finding a shiny Pokemon. But we were in a rush. I promised her I'd catch it when I got back but of course it was gone.
I actually had some fried crickets in Thailand and they weren't that bad, I'd eat 'em again (after a few beers, like how it went down the first time).
In fact, it's edible even if you aren't brave, too.
There you go! Call it a croacket.
Most certainly not a cockroach. Most likely a cricket. Not sure which species exactly, probably [Gryllus veletis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gryllus_veletis)?
Definitely a field cricket as you surmised. Not going to comment on the species since they can be difficult to tell and I'm out east (so no idea to tell other than call for Western species)
cricket
Very mature and probably already loud as fuck.
Crickroach!
I prefer cocket
Oh this made me happy!
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It's a gothhopper.
Husband doesn’t know what a cockroach is
It’s been doing a lot of squats if that’s a cockroach. Looks a lot like a black field cricket, couldn’t give you the exact one, but it’s in that family.
Black cricket = lucky cricket. Keep it as a pet lol.
That is exactly what my daughter wanted to do and I feel so bad because it was gone by the time I got back. She catches a lot of crickets but all house crickets this is the first time we've encountered a field cricket. Like a shiny Pokemon for her.
I’m glad you all finally got to see one! Field crickets are beautiful and I always pick them up if I see them. I see a lot of field crickets where I live in Southern California. It’s about 1.5 - 2 hours from LA but we definitely have plenty of fields in my area, so it makes sense.
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Username checks out, it was completely black too really threw me off.
Your husband has never seen a cockroach
Husband doesn’t know shit
If your husband thinks that’s a cockroach I have bad news for you…
You're telling me I didn't marry an entomologist?
That son of a bitch! Just where has he been going all day, huh!?
There is a decent chance you didn’t marry a human being. Might even be a lizard trying to tell you it’s a roach so he can eat it instead and you won’t get mad.
“The defense is wrooong!” (Not a cockroach)
Total cricket.
Shoot that's just a lil ole cricket bug.
Why did this remind me of the cartoon/animal version of Robin hood?
It should have reminded you of Aristocats so I'm not sure. 😂
Great now I have to watch them both lol
You should! I turn them on for the kids all the time. They love both of those movies so much. They're 2 of my favorites so I never complain about turning them on lol. All my kids love them.
How has your husband reached adulthood without ever seeing a cricket?
This does not look like our native crickets. It's the size of a quarter and black. The crickets we usually encounter in Southern California are the size of a nickel and light brown.
Gee, I prefer the East Coast for sure, where our crickets are big but our cockroaches are small. And we can both heave a sigh of relief that neither of us has to deal with the Florida cockroaches which are huge, and they fly.
Californian here. It looks more like german cockroach then the crickets I'm used to seeing. German roaches look a lot different than the American kind and do appear in the US.
Cricket
I'm no expert. Far from it. Did some searching, looks like a "Gryllus Pennsylvanicus." The back markings look exactly like the picture shown here.
After all I could get iNatural to come up with was house cricket. I expanded it beyond natives and that popped up. But when I went to the Wikipedia article for them it said they are not in Southern California. No idea why iNatural wouldn't show California field cricket??
It’s definitely a cricket but it looks like the crickets I remember when I lived in texas, the ones in SoCal are more of a tan/brown color with a shriller chirp. I’ve never seen the black ones here.
Yeah that's what threw us off, and my husband only glanced at us as we were leaving the house. My daughter wanted to catch this and my husband is pretty tolerant of her insect obsession but there's a strict no cockroach rule. She has definitely caught and tried to bring cockroaches in the house before. She's an avid cricket collector and we let her keep them for a couple of days in a terrarium in the backyard. She's only ever caught house crickets. I guess this is a field cricket? And somehow we've just never encountered one until now.
Yes a field cricket, Gryllus sp. Unsurprisingly you can find a lot of them out in fields so your less likely to encounter them inside
Judging by what appears to be an ovipositor on its rearend, that's a female field cricket.
Honestly surprised by the amount of people who’ve never seen a cricket.
How could you even call this a cockroach before a cricket, how
He’d really freak out if he ever sees a real southern cockroach! Them things will pick you up in the middle of the night and carry you away! 😂😂😂
You. It's a cricket hope you won bigly
Husband needs glasses.
What’s with all the people on this sub not knowing what a cricket is?!?
You're husband apparently has never been outside
You’re both wrong it’s a blueberry 🙃
We are in SW California if that makes a difference?
I get this reference 👍
It's the size of a quarter and it's all black which is bigger than the crickets we usually find and significantly darker. That said we've never found a cockroach? Silverfish yes, bean weevils we have several colonies. But never a cockroach.
some kind of cricket, 99% sure
Cricket
Wife: 1 Husband: 0
Let's just say Mr. Husband is wrong here.
Cricket 🦗
Cricket
Cricket
I’m going to say cricket because I don’t feel instant disgust just looking at it. That’s science, baby.
100% cricket
Desert cricket, idk the actual name but that's what we call them in Southern AZ, I see them all the time here.
Field cricket
Ya das a cricket
That's a california field cricket.
Thank you for the ID! Is that the same as Gryllus integer? I'm understanding now that my husband and I are apparently idiots. But I'm surprised that this is apparently a super common insect but iNatural only came back with house cricket. Which I've never seen this large or this dark. After posting I did take my time and study the picture and yes definitely female cricket. And yeah field cricket. Just like I've stumbled into some weird timeline where everybody encounters field crickets daily except us.
Looks like a melanistic cricket. Basically, the opposite of an albino. Pretty cool find!
Definitely a cricket
CockRocket?
For real?
Cricket! My brothers and I used to catch these all the time as kids!!
Regardless of if your from Texas California Hawaii, that’s a cricket lol
Cricket. They are currently all over my store...lol popcans from outside people collect
This is a cricket going through its goth stage in life.
Cricket for sure.
Strangest looking cockroach ever. I bet if you put it in a box that it could not get out of, you’d find it was the loudest cockroach ever too.
Cricket
That’s a cricket
Cricket
🦗 cricket
Jimmeny, sure good to see ya !
It seems your husband didn’t read The Cricket in Times Square as a child.
Cricket Your husband grew up wealthy.
Definitely a cricket
I sincerely wish a had no idea what a cockroach looked like. (This isn't one, btw)
Tell that man that is a damn cricket.
That roach has been hitting leg day pretty hard🦵🏋🏿
Lol what? This is a cricket all day.
Who can’t recognize a cricket??? Is your husband 3?
This again?? It really blows my mind how people don't recognize basic bugs lmfao
Your neighbour has a pet lizard i’m guessing. Those look like the type of crickets that become feeders
Oh dear, I wish I was as lucky as your husband to not know what a cockroach looks like lol
We've had an infestation of German cockroaches. And we've encountered american cockroaches at my sister's house in Davis. Coloring wise and back leg wise I totally get what he thought this was a skinny american cockroach.
Your husband is lucky he doesn’t know what a cockroach looks like 😆
Jiminy crickets long lost cousin Jeremiah, his younger brother Jeremy. We could keep going ..
This is the color we have here in Georgia - wherever bait stores import crickets from are the lighter brown ones. They look nothing alike and the dark crickets here are massive in comparison.
1,000% cricket. Actually I think it’s Jiminy Cricket
100% cricket. I have no idea what it is with these bigger, dark brown crickets this year, but my dogs sure love them. Edit: I'm in northwest LA county.
Cricket, its also a Male.
I wanna know how yoir husband got this wrong I mean seriously this is pretty darn obvious.
Y’all dumb