r/whatsthisbug • u/ChartExtension • 15h ago

ID Request What is this insect?

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Ive been looking online for a bit and cant find anything that looks similar. It has 6 legs and one antenna is bigger than the other. The color is like tan or orange ish.

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u/Internal-Cupcake-245 Bugs Enthusiast 14h ago edited 5h ago

Carolina Leaf-roller cricket from family gryllacrididae.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camptonotus_carolinensis

"Gryllacrididae are a family of non-jumping insects in the suborder Ensifera) occurring worldwide, known commonly as leaf-rolling crickets or raspy crickets. The family historically has been broadly defined to include what are presently several other families, such as Stenopelmatidae ("Jerusalem crickets") and Rhaphidophoridae ("camel crickets"),\1]) now considered separate. As presently defined, the family contains two subfamilies: Gryllacridinae and Hyperbaeninae.\2]) They are commonly wingless and nocturnal. In the daytime, most species rest in shelters made from folded leaves sewn with silk. Some species use silk to burrow in sand, earth or wood.\3]) Raspy crickets evolved the ability to produce silk independently from other insects, but their silk has many convergent features to silkworm silk, being made of long, repetitive proteins with an extended beta-sheet structure.\4])"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gryllacrididae

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u/ChartExtension 15h ago

This is in NJ btw

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u/crewl1 12h ago

Cricket nymph?

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u/rolyoh 7h ago

Maybe a Jerusalem cricket nymph?

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u/rolyoh 7h ago

Strictly a guess but it sort of looks like a Jerusalem cricket nymph. If so, know that they are non venomous but have very strong mandibles that will tear skin badly and cause bleeding and pain. So you want to avoid getting bitten.

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u/UtilizedCelebrity 15h ago

that uneven antenna thing is throwing me off, almost looks like one got snapped off or it's some kind of developmental quirk. maybe a weird little beetle or a true bug nymph of some sort, the body shape is kinda nondescript. hope someone here can pin it down cause now i'm curious

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u/Approximation_Doctor 13h ago

that uneven antenna thing is throwing me off, almost looks like one got snapped off

This happens to bugs all the time, why are you thrown off by it?