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Please identify this bug. Found in Neveda county California at 7pm.

Thank you

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Can't you post a picture. There is no way I am going to access an unknown file.

https://www.askmehelpdesk.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=13994&stc=1&d=1227716726


Here is a picture of the bug through help desk attacment.

Could it possibly be a termite?
Pacific Dampwood Termite Reproductive -- Zootermopsis angusticollis - Zootermopsis angusticollis - BugGuide.Net (http://bugguide.net/node/view/31161)

Looks to me like a dampwood termite, or a Nevada dampwood termite.




Dampwood termites are fairly common in central and northern coastal areas in California. They nest in wood buried in the ground, although contact with the ground is not necessary when infested wood is high in moisture. Because of their high moisture requirements, dampwood termites most often are found in cool, humid areas along the coast and are typical pests of beach houses. Winged reproductives typically swarm between July and October, but it is not unusual to see them at other times of the year. Dampwood termite winged reproductives (sometimes called swarmers) are attracted to lights.

Dampwood termites produce distinctive fecal pellets that are rounded at both ends, elongate, and lack the clear longitudinal ridges common to drywood termite pellets. Final confirmation of pellet identification may require help from an expert.

The Nevada dampwood termite, Zootermopsis nevadensis, occurs in the higher, drier mountainous areas of the Sierras where it is an occasional pest in mountain cabins and other forest structures; it also occurs along the northern California coast. The Pacific dampwood termite, Zootermopsis angusticollis, is almost one inch long, making it the largest of the termites occurring in California. Winged reproductives are dark brown with brown wings. Soldiers have a flattened brown or yellowish brown head with elongated black or dark brown mandibles. Nymphs are cream colored with a characteristic spotted abdominal pattern caused by food in their intestines. Nevada dampwood termites are slightly smaller and darker than the Pacific species; reproductives are about 3/4 inch long.


Info from:

Termites Management Guidelines--UC IPM (http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/PESTNOTES/pn7415.html)

Hope this helped :D

Thank you

Good thing this was a couple of blocks away from my house walking in the road during dark

Close guess... but that is NOT A TERMITE! Termites that large would eat your house in a day!
You have a JERUSALEM CRICKET. A type of wingless cricket, the JC is nocturnal which accounts for time you saw it.
Search - BugGuide.Net (http://bugguide.net/index.php?q=search&keys=jerusalem+cricket&search=Search)
Jerusalem cricket - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stenopelmatidae)