[Buzz123]

Originally Posted by Spowers820

I was in Las Vegas several years ago and while walking up to the registers in a local drug store chain. I saw this HUGE bug just walking down the isle. It was about a foot long with long legs and was brown. I started walking up to it thinking it was a remote controlled toy! A male employee, with a wad of paper towels, came over and picked it up to remove it from the store. That's when I freaked out!!! Can anyone tell me what that thing was???

You must have been sampling the cold medicine. There are no foot long bugs of any color in Southern Nevada. Maybe it was a kangaroo rat. Centipedes may be about three inches long, but you rarely see them here, and you'd surely know one if you saw it. At certain times tarantulas, which look like big spiders, come out in the open in search of a mate. Some scorpions are pretty big but they are very distinctive with that tail curled over their back, and the ones I've seen were almost white. From what I've heard the big scorpions are the safest ones.

[mojavedxer]

Originally Posted by unf0rgiven6262

I've been seeing an increase in baby roaches finding their way in my apartment lately with the warm weather.

Could be that you neighbor infected you with german roaches. I found some last week in my cat's food bowl. I had to whip up another batch of boric bait balls and go to war.

[Prosze]

Originally Posted by Spowers820

I was in Las Vegas several years ago and while walking up to the registers in a local drug store chain. I saw this HUGE bug just walking down the isle. It was about a foot long with long legs and was brown. I started walking up to it thinking it was a remote controlled toy! A male employee, with a wad of paper towels, came over and picked it up to remove it from the store. That's when I freaked out!!! Can anyone tell me what that thing was???

I dont know about a foot long but did it look like a roach? I've seen twice here a bug that really was big it looked like a roach. One was running across a gas station, I screamed & jumped in my car. To this day no one seems to know what type of bug it is/was especially when I show them about how long/wide it was.

[Robustus]

Google for sun-spider. They're large, and we have them around here (from what long-time locals tell me). And you might not immediately recognize it as a spider due to size and shape. Freaky bugs...

[Buzz123]

Originally Posted by sdreloc

The problem with crickets besides annoying noise if inside, is that scorpions eat them. If you have crickets, then scorpions may follow.

If that was the case then we'd be up to our ears in scorpions, but we aren't. I haven't seen one in 8 or 9 years, and the last one before that had been about 11 years. Used to see a lot of vinegarroons, but haven't seen one in years. People mistake them for scorpions, but they don't hurt anything really. Thelyphonida - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I see silverfish now and then, usually in the garage or laundry room, but not a lot of them. Someone gave us a plant that, unbeknownst to us, had an ant colony in it. After about a year they decided to move and had a trail going from the front of the house to the back door. We whacked the ants, and put the plant outside. It likes it better there anyway.

As someone else said, those little gnats come out of potting soil. We never had those in Las Vegas until fairly recent years.

I saw a no sh** mosquito in the bathroom last night. We'd had the back door open during the day, and I'm thinking I need to snoop around the neighborhood for another abandoned pool. Only one I know of is being cleaned regularly though. At least I think it is.

[unf0rgiven6262]

Originally Posted by Buzz123

If that was the case then we'd be up to our ears in scorpions, but we aren't. I haven't seen one in 8 or 9 years, and the last one before that had been about 11 years. Used to see a lot of vinegarroons, but haven't seen one in years. People mistake them for scorpions, but they don't hurt anything really. Thelyphonida - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I see silverfish now and then, usually in the garage or laundry room, but not a lot of them. Someone gave us a plant that, unbeknownst to us, had an ant colony in it. After about a year they decided to move and had a trail going from the front of the house to the back door. We whacked the ants, and put the plant outside. It likes it better there anyway.

As someone else said, those little gnats come out of potting soil. We never had those in Las Vegas until fairly recent years.

I saw a no sh** mosquito in the bathroom last night. We'd had the back door open during the day, and I'm thinking I need to snoop around the neighborhood for another abandoned pool. Only one I know of is being cleaned regularly though. At least I think it is.

I've seen numerous male mosquitoes lately. Not a good sign.

[BUGBULLY]

As far as I know, we do not have the vinegarroons, but they are actually Sun Spiders File:Sunspider.jpg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. We actually had more calls last year for those then I have seen in a while. I hate those, my kitty brought one to me that was still half alive. Made my mother in law pick it up, lol!

Funny when people call they say they have camel spiders, because of those photos that were going around of the huge spiders that soldiers in Afghanistan were holding snopes.com: Camel Spiders.


***Warning: If pictures of bugs freak you out, DO NOT click on the Link! I got goose bumps looking at them, and I am a bug person!!!!

[Prosze]

I know the two bugs I spotted weren't spiders. Both were dark brown, & looked like huge roaches. With the one I spotted at the gas station it took a guy 4-5 stomps to kill it. Both were on the NE side of town.

[Buzz123]

Originally Posted by Dltordj

I know the two bugs I spotted weren't spiders. Both were dark brown, & looked like huge roaches. With the one I spotted at the gas station it took a guy 4-5 stomps to kill it. Both were on the NE side of town.

Did it look anything like this? palmetto bug - Google Search

[Prosze]

Yes but bigger, really. My eyes weren't playing tricks on me I swear, lol. If I was to ever see one in my house I'd move out.