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dmk395
10-30-2003, 06:02 PM
Client called me today....has some pre-historic like looking grasshoppers in the house and around the yard...asked me about spraying something or broadcast spreading something to eliminate them. I live in MA, and have MA pest license....any idea what it could be...use to kill them?
MandT Lawn Care
10-30-2003, 08:35 PM
he could be talking about praying mantis
dvmcmrhp52
10-30-2003, 09:26 PM
That's my thought.....You should not kill them if that is what they are. Just remove them from the house, they are beneficial.
turf hokie
10-31-2003, 05:11 PM
Sounds like preying mantis, Kill them around here and go to jail.
Hamons
10-31-2003, 07:02 PM
Does it look anything like this?

This is the one we keep in our classroom as a pet. My first graders love feeding it grasshoppers and crickets adn watching it eat them.
eakern
11-06-2003, 11:20 AM
Sounds like Camel Crickets to me. They look like a cricket and a spider rolled into one.
dmk395
11-08-2003, 07:30 PM
Def. not praying mantis, puzzled stilll
dvmcmrhp52
11-08-2003, 11:48 PM
I saw a critter yesterday that was a first for me. It was in our yard.........Large wings in comparison to body, Kinda spider looking body with strange probosis looking things out front.
Strange critter.
Green in Idaho
11-10-2003, 10:59 AM
Well,,, did you ID it?

How about a katydid.