http://www.whatsthatbug.com/2008/11/12/north-american-potato-bug-or-native-australian-relative/ Are we experts yet? Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:43:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.whatsthatbug.com/2008/11/12/north-american-potato-bug-or-native-australian-relative/comment-page-1/#comment-82 grev Thu, 13 Nov 2008 03:33:49 +0000 http://www.whatsthatbug.com/?p=12888#comment-82 Hullo Kimberly, Your bug looks like a King Cricket from the Stenopelmatidae family, subfamily Deinacridinae, genus Australostoma. They live in borrows and tend to come out at nght when it is wet. Found in coastal NSW north to Brisbane. According to David Rentz ("Grasshopper Country"), "when handled, they produce foul-smelling anal secretions that deter predators," so perhaps you were wise to persuade it to go outside. BTW I am just around the lake from you at Wangi and found a huge cricket last week when moving compost onto the vegie garden, so perhaps the big crickets are on the move! Hullo Kimberly, Your bug looks like a King Cricket from the Stenopelmatidae family, subfamily Deinacridinae, genus Australostoma. They live in borrows and tend to come out at nght when it is wet. Found in coastal NSW north to Brisbane. According to David Rentz (“Grasshopper Country”), “when handled, they produce foul-smelling anal secretions that deter predators,” so perhaps you were wise to persuade it to go outside.
BTW I am just around the lake from you at Wangi and found a huge cricket last week when moving compost onto the vegie garden, so perhaps the big crickets are on the move!

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