Bug identification?

Question

Okay - I live in the Garden State (New Joisey!), and we found a weird bug on the bathroom wall the other day. Of course, I have no pictures of it, but I went to insect identification sites, I had trouble catagorizing the little bugger! Actually, It was about 2 inches long, and brown. I can best descibe it - if you can picture this - as a cross between a big daddy longlegs spider, and a grasshopper. It had the spring - loaded hindlegs, and very log, thin antenae. Anybody have a clue as to what it might have been? We set it free outside.

Answer 1

There are many species of crickets and grasshoppers it the order orthoptera.  A tree cricket has very long antenna and long legs.  try these.

http://bugguide.net/index.php?q=search&k...

Answer 2

There arew so many possibilities without the  pic.

Here are some possibilities:

cave cricket, although they usually live in caves, they like dark, damp areas, such as a bathroom.

http://www.stlzoo.org/images/cave_cricke...

Or maybe it was a squash bug(anttenae were cut off in this specimen):

http://agspsrv34.agric.wa.gov.au/ento/im...

May even have been a walkingstick(small one)

http://www.montezumabeach.com/images/wal...

Katydid is another possiblility:

http://www.geocities.com/hopperswallpape...

I cant really tell without the pic. Hope this helps tho.

Answer 3

camel cricket?  (thats the same as a cave cricket) and can be found in NJ

http://www.whatsthatbug.com/images/cave_...

or perhaps a katydid/ katydid nymph

http://www.dpughphoto.com/images/katydid...

Answer 4

what you have is probably a walking stick.