Oh, I guess I never asked the question! My question is, have any of you heard of the German June Bug?

I've heard of German Cockroaches.

Your discription sounds like a German Cockroach. Check out the photo and see if that's what it is.

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No that wasn't it. I'll try to get a pic of one.

I tried putting a pic up, but it had too many kb I guess. Any ideas how I can get it on here? Can I upload larger images to my members page some how?

Greg sent pictures of the insect in question so they could be posted here. This is the immature form. He says that the the mature form is "a dull Army green when they are full grown and they get about two inches long".

What is it?

Lokks like a type of stonefly to me.

In a week or two I'll find one that is full grown and get a pic up. I wish I knew what book I found them in so many years ago. I know it labeled them German June Bugs, I remember it surprised me because they look nothing like the June Bugs my brothers and I use to tie fishing string to and fly them like kites.

Thanks roselee, I don't know how you did that. I read the up-loader instructions and it said you can't upload in follow-up messages, not only that I tried making a new post to upload them and it said the images were too big. I think you told me in your email how to do it so I'll check that out.

It does look like an adult stonefly, or similiar species. Someone could have confused them with Mayfly, but this is not the same as a Mayfly.

Yeah I just did a search on Stone Fly and it looks a lot like it, but I wish I could remember what book I seen it in because I know I seen one in a book that called it a German June Bug. But I've found no such bug on the internet.

Greg, do you find them indoors?

I hope you get a postitive ID soon, but if don't and you get pictures of the adult insect and want to post them directly to the forum you can use a photo hosting site like Photobucket.com. to do so. It's free.

You upload your photos to Photobucket and then copy the HTML code from among several codes that show up under the photo, and paste it in the 'Message' box. This is a link to the photo. When you 'Preview Message' the photo will magical (or so it seems) appear!

You can put multiple codes/links to your photos, writing in between to name or describe them, so several pictures will appear with your message.

Reduce your pictures to about 750 before uploading or they will appear here very large. You can also reduce them once they are on the Photobucket site. In fact there's all sorts of editing you can do on site as well as make photo albums for public viewing.

The photos you store there can only be seen by you unless you make your account public.

That IS the mature form. It has wings. Insects don't get much more 'mature' than that. I suspect that the original poster has two different insects confused with each other. Once insects develop their wings, they don't get larger or even change colors again. That's the grand finale

Sorry rhizo but those do get bigger even after they get their wings. The night I took those there were some small ones and big ones out on the patio. Like a lot of flying insects the seem to be drawn to our patio light. I've got a pic of an even bigger one now and it has changed color to that green color I was talking about. It looks much creepier now, you can really see the pinchers on it. Well I know they're not really pinchers, but what ever you call them. I couldn't see them on the younger ones. I'll try to get those pics up soon, most of them turned out blurry but a few of them are okay.

Rhizo, I realize they have no further stage of morphing or what ever you might call it, but I do believe that smaller one is a young one. I know it's hard to see why I believe that in these pics, but I'm almost certain it is. They must hibernate or something and possibly molt in places where you don't normally find the shells. I don't know this for a fact as I've said before I'm no expert. I have occasionally seen the bigger ones flying around the light with the small ones. I think the big one I recently posted is probably going to die soon, I usually find them dead when they are about that size. The pic where it's about to take off shows a wing from beneath the top set of wings. When in flight they have what appears to be two sets of wings flapping and they don't seem to be very graceful in flight.

Nope, you've got a couple of different kinds of creatures is all. You must live near a creek, river, lake, etc. These are the adult stage of different KINDS aquatic borne insects. Dobsonflies, fishflies, stoneflies, caddisfly, etc.

Look 'em up and you'll see how similiar they are (yet so different, lol).

Well the bigger one that I posted is the one that I seen in a book about 25 years ago and the book called it a German Junebug. I'm certain of that, but I haven't found one online.

I googled Dobsonfly and sure enough that was it, but I know I seen a pic of a Dobsonfly long ago and in that book it was labeled a German June Bug. If only I could find that again I wouldn't feel so bad about telling people every time they asked me what that weird looking bug is, "a German June Bug", I said so many times. I'll have to hang my head in shame till I rediscover that book or any book that calls it a German June bug. lol I still like calling it a German June bug, I like the way it rolls off the tongue and it always shows up in June looking like it's the killer of the actual pretty green June bugs that me an my brothers use to tie to fishing string and fly them like kites!