Yikes, that's ugly! I thought it might be an earwig, but don't they have pincers?

That looks like a type of cricket. I really can't stand bugs. Spiders don't bother me, but insects...shudder!!

It is a baby cricket, recently molted. It will not hurt you one bit. Please do not freak out.

It's cricket season so I think that's what it is also. Either that or a baby bee. My first thought was a bee because of it's stripes. Never saw a cricket with stripes though, but I've never seen newborn criket either.

It just looks like a cricket to me. It won't hurt you so just put a cap or lid over it and take it outside :) lol

It's a young cricket. I know because my 10yo has a gecko that eats them.

Jimminy girl, It's a cricket, put him on your hearth and you'll get good luck! :) really!

Definitely a cricket! I would put it outside.

Thank you so much everyone! I just let the baby cricket go free in the woods in back of my fenced in yard nicely on the ground so it can live. I just had no idea what the bug was and in case it was dangerous and would start multiplying in my house I wanted to know. The baby cricket was very active this morning in the bag so maybe it was not moving much last night due to just molted its skin. It stayed on a paper I pulled out from my monitor until I got the thick freezer bag to put it in and did not try to run way. But this morning it had so much energy.

Thank you all again!

Glad no bugs were injured in the creation of this thread! Hop free, little cricket! ;-)

Thank you leafy02 but I hate killing any living creature unless it is a cockroach, bed bug, mosquito, fly or some evil insect that will somehow hurt me or my little dogs. If the creature is harmless, then it deserves to live.

I am so sick with allergies this morning and need to work but had to lie down on a heating pad after the above message unless the nausea passed.

Well, I know know what a cricket looks like up close. I always thought they had hard brown shells with wings and bigger back legs and jumped.

I first was going to post this on the insect sight but it looked like it was taking many days for a post to arrive and I did not want to keep the bug imprisoned longer than it had to be in case it was not dangerous. Again, this forum is amazing with such caring and knowledgeable members.

Came in to say "cricket" and see my work is done.

Usually I find a bug in my programming rather than under the computer monitor...

At least it's not a stink bug! Those things are prehistoric looking.

Be happy that you were wrong about it being an earwig. Earwigs are horrible and creepy, my least favorite insect. Much uglier than a cricket. ugh.

For the longest time, we had crickets jumping around down in our finished basement. Luckily, although my daughters don't like spiders, they were OK with the crickets. I would catch them and put them outside.
I think we carried in the crickets with the dog food bag. The pet store often had escaped crickets jumping around.

Have any of you ever seen or been infested by cave crickets? They're like the much larger, and evil, older brother of the cute little crickets. They're about 3 inches long, and they look at you. I mean they look you right in the eye, and if you get to close, they attack you. They'll leap right up at you like some weird SciFi monster movie. They live in basements that are damp, like a cave.

They can also get into your house and eat paper, clothes, or anything else they feel like eating. Sometimes they'll chew on something that's wet, just to get moisture. And once they're in your house, they'll wake you up in the middle of the night with their chirping songs.

The Chinese consider them good luck when in the house. But they do eat a LOT of things including your food as well as the pet food. A baby one means there are more somewhere. Put out fly paper with cornmeal on it as a trap. They will jump on and you can take them outside.

If you leave baseball gloves or other leather items outside the crickets will chew up the leather and ruin it. So it is OK to have them but they are not completely benign. Good Luck !! And I hope your headache is way way better. c

hayden, you're making that up... right?

Cave crickets are cool! And before you say mean things about earwigs, get really close and look at their faces. They have the most appealing cute little mugs! Really!

(Crickets have wings, but only adults. Immature insects don't have wings (with a special case for mayflies but nobody cares about that except fishermen).)

I love this place. Just wanted to say that.

Carry on....

I love all the posts about crickets, teaching me so much about this insect that I never thought much about. I read that they were nocturnal so I let my little dogs out in the back last night and noticed that there was quite a few adult crickets on my balcony glass door mating! I had no idea I had crickets in my back yard. I still do not know how the baby cricket got under my HP W2408 flat screen monitor in between the important bills I keep there until time to pay.

mclarke, I also love this forum so much with such caring and knowledgeable people.

So, the next time I'm unable to sleep due to the cheeping of a lone cricket, my heart aching for what I'm certain must be a baby calling out to its mama, I'll think of hayden and picture a mean Cave Cricket. Heart soothed, I'll sleep. No doubt with nightmares;>):>)!

Just want to give a quick update since I had no idea I had crickets in my backyard. After the storm died down and the rains stopped, last night I could hear crickets chirping outside if standing in the kitchen. This must be the year of the crickets. But at least now I know what they are and will make sure they stay out of the house if they can do damage to my clothes but I will just carefully return any babies or adults to the outside world. Thank you all again for your help! At least they are not Cave Crickets!