What helpful of bug is this? Looks like a cockroach or a giant ant. Maybe enter into...

Looks like a cockroach or a giant ant. Maybe enter into the house from an opened electrical outlet. Here are some pictures; it is around 2 inches long.
http://www.publicatodo.com/bug.html

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Answers:    That looks close to a mormon cricket.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormon_cric...


Better yet, it looks more approaching a jerusalem cricket.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem_c...


I don't agree with the mole cricket concept. The forelegs are not the strong, heavy digging legs that mole crickets own. However, here is a link to an article roughly speaking mole crickets that has some pictures.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mole_cricke...

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Mole cricket

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