Two-Striped Walkingstick, Palmetto Walkingstick, Devil Rider, Musk Mare
Anisomorphabuprestoides
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This bug has been reportedly found in the following regions:
Orange Beach, Alabama
Big Pine Key, Florida
Lakeland, Florida
Merritt Island, Florida
Oldsmar, Florida
Palm Bay, Florida
Umatilla, Florida
Bossier City, Louisiana
Kenner, Louisiana
Lafayette, Louisiana
Sulphur, Louisiana
Okatie, South Carolina
Austin, Texas
Baytown, Texas
Conroe, Texas
Galveston, Texas
Port Arthur, Texas
Wharton, Texas
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Ponte Vedra Beach, FL |
October 2017 |
Positive
Remember these from when I was a kid, never messed with me and I even handled a few, I remember others kids would try to squish them and I felt bad so I'd put them in trees (but again, I NEVER put the bugs near my eye since I was always scared of something going in my eye).
Only seen one once in the backyard but I hope they return, they're so cool-looking. I fear that since everyone uses pesticides but me that they might be extirpated from my neighborhood.
Wish I could take the ones people keep trying to eliminate :P
Only seen one once in the backyard but I hope they return, they're so cool-looking. I fear that since everyone uses pesticides but me that they might be extirpated from my neighborhood.
Wish I could take the ones people keep trying to eliminate :P
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trackinsand
mid central, FL (Zone 9a) |
October 2011 |
Negative
this has been a particularly bad late summer for these walking sticks. it seems like they are always hanging out eye-level on the house so i spray and kill every one i see. i use liquid castile soap and water and soak each one from a spray bottle. it kills them within a minute.
if they didn't have the potential to cause such eye harm to me and my dogs, i would certainly leave them alone but having five or six every night around the house outside is just too much to deal with.
if they didn't have the potential to cause such eye harm to me and my dogs, i would certainly leave them alone but having five or six every night around the house outside is just too much to deal with.
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twopuppies
Chester, IL |
September 2010 |
Positive
Wehave a smaller similar species in our area-
they smell bad but are not as dangerous to
pester as yours are- in a jar they die if they spray
so they are not immune to t he stuff!
they smell bad but are not as dangerous to
pester as yours are- in a jar they die if they spray
so they are not immune to t he stuff!