Please help me identify this unknown bug!!!! **Update On Johnny Adam**

[Wildsky]

Bec. Are you my son?

he wants to keep EVERYTHING he finds.
Super hard to convince him otherwise when we found a bunch of tortoises living in the back yard.

 

[Bec]

I have just always loved bugs and animals. When I was little my mom and dad used to find me playing with bees in the back yard. They said I would have them cupped in my hands.
One of the sweetest things my hubby has ever done was surprise me with a tomato horn worm from the garden!

Maybe that's why kids and I get along so well!!! We save the Earthworms from the puddles and red ants too!

 

[Wildsky]

YOu need to come visit here when the dern frogs come out.. just picture me running around trying to catch the slimy little boogers to show the kids
ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

 

[EweSheep]

 

[KareyABohr]

That is ONE LUCKY BUG! My daughter would have freaked out until her 'heroic Daddy' smashed it. I can't believe you took a bug home!

 

[Bec]

I checked on him first thing this morning, my son named him Johnny Adam....LOL. He really is an interesting bug!

We do collect frogs too! The only thing I can't do is like maggots and little yucky things like that!

 

[Brunty_Farms]

I use to do the same thing... not anymore.. I have a girlfriend that screams at the site of an eight legged anything.... I just laugh and throw the bug outside or down the toilet.

When I was a kid I brought a baby garter snake in the house.... built a house for it out of legos.... Well turns out I didn't do a very good job as it got into the laundry and scared the crap out of my mom... She screamed......Jeffrey!!!

And this was me upstairs....

 

[Bec]

LOL!!!

 

[setter4]

I think there are several correct answers here. Looks like a leaf footed bug which IS a type of stink bug! YUCK!
I think he eats the seeds and stuff from pine cones.

 

[verity]

I also 'love' bugs!

They are incredible -- I have a plastic cup and a card to slide under it when I have cornered a bug -- it's easy to get it to take outside --

We have those huge wolf spiders here and my husband hates them -- so I have to take them out --

There is a tiny brown field-mouse living in our garage -- I have gotten a 'hav-a-heart' trap but hate to put him out in the snow --

It's nice to hear from another lover of 'critters' that other people don't like!

Thank you for sharing your special bug-buddy!
Hope that Johnny-Adam hangs around for you to enjoy --