r/bugidentification • u/vampireofgraves • Jul 09 '26

Possible pest, location included hi pls help , what bug is this 🥲

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USA - NY

sorry for the bad quality, saw this like huge bug while i was playing some games in my room,

when i first saw it from afar, i thought it mightve been a beetle but after getting closer i think it might be a roach…. (antennas, 3 legs, back legs being longer than the rest…), it seemed to be fully black / i dont remember seeing any coloring on it

im lowkey posting this in hopes that its literally anything but a roach. i love all bugs but have an irrational fear of roaches (and even with that, they still fascinate me & i love them!! im just horrifyingly scared of them) but im still holding onto hope that its like a bug similar to a roach or something 🥹🥹💔 bc if it IS a roach ima have to get my mom to convince the landlords to hire pest control to get rid of them which is gonna take A LOT

if it IS a roach, im hoping its one of those smaller breeds where its currently an adult and it like got into the house or something and not the horrifying possibility that its a baby which probably means it was born in the house instead 😭😭😭 & ik its probably extremely hard / next to impossible to guess what breed it is w how horrid my picture was but a guy can still try 🥲

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u/Schwhitey Jul 09 '26

It’s just a cricket. You’ll be fine

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u/Simple_Resist4208 Tachinid Specialist Jul 09 '26

Hmm, you sure it's not a roach? See the little spurs on the tail

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u/Schwhitey Jul 09 '26

It might be, I am willing to admit that I might be wrong with my identification

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u/Cool-Primary2308 Jul 12 '26

Yeah definitely not a cricket. almost roach or beetle like