Stenopelmatus species - Potato bugs, Jerusalem crickets, nino de la tierra part 1

These crazy looking bugs used to terrify me as a child. Now i think they are great! They are a type of very large, flightless cricket. They seem to eat a wide range of foods in captivity including some vegetables, waffles, and each other!

This video is more just getting used to shooting in semi high definition than an actual "bug lesson", per se... hope you enjoy it none-the-less :)

[uploaded from a ~70MB WMV]

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• Stenopelmatus
• species
• Potato
• bugs
• Jerusalem
• crickets
• nino
• de
• la
• tierra
• part

[castro24g]

well i think it spits poison maybee i should try it on a subject any takers

if you really want to carry your argument on it not beingh ppoisonos and all right so who would like to be my guiny pigggggg lol 

[cacoseraph]

@castro24g some grasshoppers (not too distantly related from these guys... kind of) do make a poisonous spittle, but not of them are even close to deadly to humans. in fact, just recently i tried tasted some grasshopper "tobacco juice"... it was kind of nasty tasting but i suffered no ill affects.

[gimaca]

stupid people these things are very poisonous even more than scorpions, stop being  stupid and let them go.

[cacoseraph]

@gimaca damn, i hope you are joking. these things are absolutely not poisonous. any entomology book or website will tell you that. it is ignorant ppl like you that mess things up for the world. thanks, asshole :)

[Wario64100]

The nino de la tierra can kill you. It has a very poisonous sting that will kill you in 3 hours.

[hoodstarx1]

@gimaca they are not poisonous but do have a some what painful bite they have no stinger or fangs to inject any kind of poison/venom

[eddy909100]

Poor little guy, despite it's creepy appearence it's a living creature trying too survive.

[alexito764]

ok i live in mexico and i alway saw a lot of them, they are not poisonous, and not agresive, only when you hurt them

[castro24g]

well i think it spits poison maybee i should try it on a subject any takers

[chuyin1224]

My mom said if you step on them your foot will fall off...

[AcidParadox]

lol at the people saying this is a poisonous bug , there were tons of them at my apartment when i arrived for the first time.

[ColdButterKiller]

I dont care whether its poison-is or not no way in effin hell wud i ever touch that lol

sure ill touch spiders like black widows rfl but not that creepy bug