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Old 09-17-2008, 11:59 PM
 
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The past few weeks, almost every day, there have been these large, jumping bugs in my apartment. I've never seen anything like them, but they're very quick, and hard to kill. They're not scorpions, and I thought at first they might be cockroaches, but they really jump around and I don't think they're cockroaches. They're a brownish color and I have no idea how they get in my apartment as I live on the 2nd floor and keep my doors closed. Anybody know what these are and if I should be concerned? Is an exterminator necessary?

 
Old 09-18-2008, 12:10 AM
 
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look under your front door, do you see light?
 
Old 09-18-2008, 01:53 AM
 
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There are varieties of grasshoppers in Phoenix that are brown. They get in through cracks in seals, windows, and other opening to the outdoors.
 
Old 09-18-2008, 08:16 AM
 
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No,those aren't grasshoppers. Do they look like little beetles, longer than wider, and a little line across their backs like they have a waist? My kids call them popping bugs. When you go to pick them up they pop. This time of year they come in, like carpet beetles but bigger. They are all over the place. Harmless, just sweep them up and put them out side. A broom with a sweep in bucket works well if you have the squirmies. lol
 
Old 09-18-2008, 08:25 AM
 
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Just be careful that theyre not blister beetles. But, if they were blister beetles Im sure you would have found out by now.
 
Old 09-18-2008, 08:31 AM
 
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Just be careful that theyre not blister beetles. But, if they were blister beetles Im sure you would have found out by now.
Ok steve, what the heck are blister beetles? Picture please.
 
Old 09-18-2008, 08:40 AM
 
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ADW: Alaus oculatus: Information

This is what I was talking about but they look a darker, almost black out here in AZ with a little shorter legs. I guess people call it the click beetle. It looks less scary in person without the magnification. Just a skinny black beatle but it is cut in half, I guess thats how it jumps.
 
Old 09-18-2008, 09:50 AM
 
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ADW: Alaus oculatus: Information

This is what I was talking about but they look a darker, almost black out here in AZ with a little shorter legs. I guess people call it the click beetle. It looks less scary in person without the magnification. Just a skinny black beatle but it is cut in half, I guess thats how it jumps.
AHHHHH! Those look creepy! Popping bugs made them sound cute! I only mentioned grasshoppers because he said his encounter was with brown hopping bugs and not black like those creepy "popping bugs." But, those do look more like a beetle, like he also described. I have neighbors from other areas of the country and they have confused the brown grasshopper in Phoenix with a strange desert "roach." Then they realize it looks like a grasshopper. I'm sure it is because when you first encounter a hopping brown bug, you don't immediately think, green jimminey cricket!
 
Old 09-18-2008, 10:44 AM
 
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The past few weeks, almost every day, there have been these large, jumping bugs in my apartment. I've never seen anything like them, but they're very quick, and hard to kill. They're not scorpions, and I thought at first they might be cockroaches, but they really jump around and I don't think they're cockroaches. They're a brownish color and I have no idea how they get in my apartment as I live on the 2nd floor and keep my doors closed. Anybody know what these are and if I should be concerned? Is an exterminator necessary?
My guess from your description, NytoPhx . . . GRASSHOPPERS!

No expert exterminator here but I would imagine a strategically placed shot or two of a good Bug Spray should do the trick.

Good Luck
 
Old 09-18-2008, 12:22 PM
 
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Ok steve, what the heck are blister beetles? Picture please.
Blister beetle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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