Is this a cockroach?

[GreenLantern]

i should not have entered this thread

[troutman]

That's a newborn. Where is the mother?

[Faust]

Nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the Only Way to Be Sure.

[combustiblefuel]

Originally Posted by blankall

Not a cockroach. Cockroaches have plates over their heads and exposed or highly reduced wings. I took a course in etymology to fill credits for my bio degree.

That looks like this:

http://www.insectsofalberta.com/brow...edstinkbug.htm

If so, it's an imported invasive species.

Your missing an a o and a n in there.

[Buzzard]

Originally Posted by Iowa_Flames_Fan

I'm no expert and there are a number of types of cockroach--but it doesn't look like any of the cockroaches I've seen.

What happened to it? Did you catch it and if so can you post a closer-up shot?

A little fuzzy...

[Buzzard]

Originally Posted by troutman

That's a newborn. Where is the mother?

Hopefully a banana plantation in Costa Rica.

[Max Cow Disease]

I'm so happy to live in a climate where crap like that is relatively rare. There are places in the world where that thing would be seventy times that size, and the call you'd get would probably be from it instead after it digested your wife.

[Circa89]

Originally Posted by Buzzard

A little fuzzy...

Hemipteran
Family: Miridae

Very common. Phloem suckers!

[Circa89]

Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist

Any clues on this one? My best google is a camel cricket

Orthoptera:
Tettigoniidae.

Moron cricket.
It a Type of Katydid. Not really a cricket, nor are they all Mormon, some Catholics. If you note the back legs they are not specialized for jumping like a grasshoppers.

[codynw]

Set off a nuclear bomb. If it survives, it's a cockroach.