What is this? Bug experts and the curious please..

#31
kattykay said:
Thelace, that thing is scary. I dont think I could vacuum a bug up though, for fear that they wuold just crawl right back out.
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Ah well - we have a fixed routine for this occasion: My daughter has to stare into the Dyson's clear cannister and not take her eyes off it. I then turn it on and suck the bugger up ... and wait until Daughter shouts that she has seen the spider appear in the cannister! :nuts:

Here's a creepy factoid: When I suck the spider up, I actually feel its body knocking against the side of the Dyson tubing, as it goes past my hand :wtf:

~shudders~
 
#32
fluffy614 said:
K, they are out here now in PA. The other night I said to DH, the bugs are back. I love to open the window at night and listen to them. As long as they stay outside, I'm fine!!! Have you ever seen the walking stick bugs? I 've had a few of those on my porch......ewww!
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I find them annoying at night lol. Being surrounded by trees the woods are full of them, I wish they could understand what shut up meant lol. Ive seen the walking stick bugs before, they come around here all the time.

Thanks for the photo comments, I thought they were pretty sucky since I zoomed in almost all the way lol
 
#33
I like most bugs. I don't like cockroaches, mosquitoes, fleas and flies though. Spiders I like. If one comes inside the house, I catch it and put it outside. There's no point killing them. They're very useful creatures, especially since they catch and eat cockroaches, mosquitoes, fleas and flies.
 
#35
This guy was coming out of his shell on my wheel the other day when I went to get in my car. I went and got my brother because I had never seen this thing before!! He told me its a locust. And This grasshopper was outside my front door staring at me. It's kind of cute though
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#36
BigPurseSue said:
Here's a link to an article about how researchers are discovering that butterflies talk to each other by making, well, clicking sounds, like the kind you heard DooneyDiva:

http://www.entnemdept.ufl.edu/pestalert/butterflies_talk.htm

And here's a YouTube video of a zebra butterfly making sounds:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPkAz3Quezc
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Thanks, Sue! That's nice of you to find some links for me and please DO as your neighbor. I just have to say that the sound of the butterfly in the YouTube video is not quite what it sounded like. The butterfly I heard was not clicking in a sharp, high tone like that. It was more of a purr. That's the best way I could describe it. It was the black and orange color of a tiger and had stripes and some spots. Let me know what he says.
 
#38
^^^ oh my god !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *screams* where was that taken ?

back to the original little creature pictured, we had one like that hitch a ride on the windscreen a few years ago, he stayed on for quite some distance and it was frankly endearing looking at his little feelers/antenae(sp) blowing in the wind, he could have done with a headscarf to keep them under control.
 
#42
when i was a kid and i was scared of a bug, my dad would grab my hand and drag me to it and FORCE ME to look at it and tell me there was nothing to be scared of it. it worked :lol:

same thing with blood and injuries.

facing those scary things actually helps you be less scared of them
 
#43
Junkenpo said:
I had a praying mantis hitch a ride on my roof once & it stayed on a good 15 miles too. DH was not amused... he hates mantises the same way i hate roaches.
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Praying Mantises are very good to have in your yard. People actually buy them by mail order. They eat aphids and other destructive pests.
 
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