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Old 10-01-2007, 09:44 PM
 
Location: Clear Lake, Houston TX
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That's not a spider. It has 6 legs and a pair of antenna. Those things probably just eat leaves. We have those in Houston, too.
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Old 10-02-2007, 12:27 PM
 
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Looks like a leaffooted bug (second photo on the left):

Leaffooted bug
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Old 10-03-2007, 11:43 AM
 
Location: San Antonio
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I second the leaf footed bug. If that's what it is, they don't bite but they do a number on my tomatoes every year. Here is a pretty good bug ID site.

What's That Bug?
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Old 10-03-2007, 01:51 PM
 
Location: Clear Lake, Houston TX
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Looks like a leaffooted bug (second photo on the left):

Leaffooted bug

That's exactly what those things are. (I was thinking for a moment they were a cottonwood borer.) When they grow up to be full sized, they are big nasty beetles that can give you quite a pinch (and a stink) if you get too close. Harmless though.
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Old 10-03-2007, 04:03 PM
 
Location: Hutto, Tx
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Stinkbugs are what we grew up calling them
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Old 10-03-2007, 04:57 PM
 
Location: Clear Lake, Houston TX
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Stinkbugs are totally different, and we have them here too:

http://www.ent.iastate.edu/images/he..._bug_nymph.jpg
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Old 10-04-2007, 10:02 PM
 
Location: Hutto, Tx
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I think the bug I'm referring to we just called a stink bug, because by looking at those pictures, that's not the one I remember. Who here lived in Houston or SE Texas and remembers those big flying grey bugs shaped similarly to the leaf footed bug that's posted here? They also have kind of long antennae, but the are just grey w/black legs? And some of them can get really big. They are almost as disgusting to me as giant cockroaches! I'm still looking at that bug id site, but can't find it yet.
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Old 10-08-2007, 09:58 AM
 
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Exclamation I'll trade you...

Any spider that can carry this big ol luggage rack on it's back, and resist repeated, (almost a dozen), downpours of bug spray, is not a critter I want to tangle with. It's hard to tell from your photo, it looks like a 'pede', as in a variation of one of those..., not looking like a spider, but more like an "evil" praying mantas. Good Luck.

I'm enclosing a photo of my new "survivalist" friend for all to woo.
If anyone has any knowledge in regards to this 'Un-yellow-belly', (because his BACK is yellow, LOL), please let me know.

Since I'm here and I have it, please tell me this other photo isn't a Brown Recluse. Thanks.

Sorry, my phone doesn't take great photos, but the last one, (spider of unknown origin) is really more yellow than it looks.
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