Summer Bugs

Here's a pretty badass pic of a Black Widow, female, that I found living under my f'ing window sill. The globule was about the size of a large pea. This was the largest of 3 that I found in the same general area.

Regal spider on my kids lawn chair, about an inch in full length, with massive legs in the front used for vaulting onto prey. From what I've researched, these spiders live across the nation and although not venomous, will deliver a painful bite.

Nasty mf.

I firmly believe we mammals are in a permanent natural state of war with insects and reptiles for supremacy. Mr. Moth is cool -- he looks fuzzy and like he might have nursed at birth -- but fuuuuuuuuuuuuuck the other critters in this thread.

Having said that, glue a quarter to the end of a stick for perspective.

DEAR DENT,

meep OFF WITH THAT meep!

SYRISLY!

love KAHUNA

Lk and Vas are INSECT meep !!!!

Dent can use some sweet Kenpo moves on aforementioned bugs, so he can walk without fear in this wild kingdom.

I'm also an insect meep.

Eeew. Fuk that.

Sadly, bugs outweigh humans and animals in general by some obscenely ridiculous ratio.

Fuk that as well.

Two monster mosquito's meeping on my window.

Dent: that moth is a sphinx moth, also called a hummingbird moth, because they look and act just like hummingbirds when they fly and feed. Pretty cool.

Awesome, Vlad - I've been looking all over for an ID on that thing.

While outside feeding the dogs on my lunch break, I nearly stepped on what people from this valley refer to as "Giant Water Beetles", because they come out in April and live in wet soil, grass or wet wood. Technically, they are a type of giant roach called an Oriental Roach, but don't infest homes or have the same diet as American roaches. They mainly live outside in the yard, but nonetheless still suck.

I even stuck a quarter in the pic for sizing, because this one is disgustingly huge.

Here's a praying mantis perched atop the coin-operated binoculars that vas was using at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico.

Onward Tonto! Yiiihaaaaaa!

Looks like he's sitting in a pile of snow. Sweet pic.

The only insects that I am afraid of are hornets, wasps and most spiders.

Although I will not hesitate to smash any bug, the above three get special treatment.

dent: Looks like he's sitting in a pile of snow. Sweet pic.

I think I can see his little snowboard.

Some guy where my mom works took a picture of this moth on the side of the building.I am now a moth fan club member.

dent: Here's a pretty badass pic of a Black Widow, female, that I found living under my f'ing window sill. The globule was about the size of a large pea. This was the largest of 3 that I found in the same general area.

You got a BLACK WIDOW living in your place? I would advise switching neighborhoods...

You got a BLACK WIDOW living in your place?

I've never seen a widow IN the house, thank Jebus - it was living under the outside sash beneath the AC. I see them on a regular basis clinging to meep around the yard. Last month I opened an exterior wooden tool shed (like a 4 foot by 2 foot box) and inside were 4 females (the big ones are chicks) and 3 males. I sprayed them with spider spray and the meepgots survived. I then put on boots and gloves and went back out there with a sledgehammer and tore the shed down and burnt the pile.

I forbid my kids to go outside until I sprayed the entire foundation with high-grade Widow spray.

Some guy where my mom works took a picture of this moth on the side of the building.I am now a moth fan club member.

Where are you located? Street address preferable.

<span class="post_was_edited">On 2007-06-02 at 18:20:20, dent craps monkey baby</span>

That pic was taken in Willoughby,Ohio.

I can't stress enough how much this thread can meep right off.

You are a bug meep.

You are a bog meep.

I ate a few cicadas last night, as the papers have been making much ado about the protein benefits of our surplus bugs. They tasted like asparagus, except with warm, squishy bug-gut goodness. Since I don't actually like asparagus, this will be my solo foray into the exciting world of insect cuisine.

Scorpion: Found on the floor of a Baja hotel (punta chivato). I did not leave my shoes on the floor after that, and scoured every inch of the room every night thereafter with flashlight.

Orb Weaver: Costa Rican Jungle trail. Wife's hand for size reference. Not a bad spider. Not fun to walk into though.

dent: While outside feeding the dogs on my lunch break, I nearly stepped on what people from this valley refer to as "Giant Water Beetles", because they come out in April and live in wet soil, grass or wet wood. Technically, they are a type of giant roach called an Oriental Roach, but don't infest homes or have the same diet as American roaches. They mainly live outside in the yard, but nonetheless still suck. I even stuck a quarter in the pic for sizing, because this one is disgustingly huge.

Man, I hate those things. Sometimes they get in our house. I always disinfect the area where I killed them and where I saw them run. Imagining all their germs crawling up my arm after I kill them really gets to me. :(

I, too, am an insectipuss.

For the first moth: Where are these d00ds located? All over the US?

government_death_robot: For the first moth: Where are these d00ds located? All over the US?

Yup.

Here's a cool luna moth photo:

Orb Weaver: Costa Rican Jungle trail. Wife's hand for size reference. Not a bad spider. Not fun to walk into though.

I feel ill.

This thread is an meep.

meep you and your bugs to meep.

I hate this thread too.....

EXCEPT I LOVE WHAT ITS DOING TO THE BUG meep!!!!!

KEEP RAWKING!!!

Found this in the tub this morning, naked, as I was about to shower before work. As far as I can tell, it's meeping creepy. Sorry about the meepty quality, it's a cell phone pic.

Other than that, I think it's a Hobo, Funnel Weaver or a Parsons spider.

Up yours spiders.

I've got to get a pic of the Dobson fly I ran across while treating a drug rehab for carpenter ants. meeper scared the meep out of me. In the meantime, to give you an idea:

meep was probably a little over 4" long and the jaw on it about an inch. I sprayed that meeper down with chemical until it dropped. (I'll replace that with a pic of the actual one even though they're effectively the same.)

Summer 2008 bugs that can meeping die:

I just saw this thing when I went to look out my window like 20 minutes ago, a female Orb-Weaver. Although not poisonous, they deliver a bite similar to a bee sting. meep THAT.

I saw this ugly spider crawling on the floor in the basement about a month ago. He's yet to be identified. He was the size of a dime.

and another of the same meep

Found this nignoggles in the same area - perhaps dinner?

I caught this Red Jumper on one of those kid gates laying around the deck. He's not very large, but red, which to me translates into teeth and poison.

A couple of weeks ago I was about to open the door when I saw this HUGE mofo chilling out on the door knob. I know they can't bite (right?), but I still was creeped the holy meep out.

I meeping hate spiders more than I hate pretty much anything. Even myself. However, the small ones that look sort of like crabs (there are various types) are totally ok to me for some reason. I would say it's the size, except other small spiders that aren't all beefy armed bring out my hate just as much as a tarantula would.

I also hate most flying bugs, except honey bees. Bees and I are cool with one another.

Dent, cool pics.

I live in the valley of the sun (Arizona) and after living in Texas and california I have never seen any bugs like I have seen here.

Just 2 days ago, I got done taking a meep and happen to look in my bathtub as I was walking by and found a 1 inch ear wig. these things freak me out. Black widows are very common here. I probably burn about 10 a year. Then Im walking by at night to go back in my house and I hear some buzzing meep by my head, freaks me out and I start swinging my arms like a weirdo, I could only imagin what that looks like to the neighbors.

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There is some great bug pics here!

This is no bug but a friendly visitor of about 10' long. This carpet snake is slowly making his way to the top of the water tank.

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Cool video, mang.

Snakes don't really bother me. They don't have that same "icky" vibe to them that makes me shudder when I see bugs. Although, if I heard a snake hissing at me I would probably throw my wife in front of me.

generally bugs don't bother me unless they do some sort of surprise kaikaze run at my face, then its all hands and arms waving like a sissy.

got a few pics of this giant friendly looking beetle thing outside my back door awhile ago, he even has cool fan type feeler things:

i went on a cliff-top photoshoot recently and there were swarms of these beetle things flying around and dive bombing me, they're hard little meepers, no idea what they are.

spiders i have mixed feelings for. small ones are ok, big tarantula ones ok, middle sized 1 to 2 inches big can meep off right now. this little meep is a white crab spider, who i pissed off when i disturbed his hideout so he ran out at me and reared up like a little meep.

this is my old chilean rose tarantula, started out friendly then once it shed its skin, was a mean meeper that tried to bite me everytime i went near him

we live in the middle of a bunch of fields, so if i leave a light on outside or don't pull the blinds at night, we get all sorts of huge flying beasts zipping around, i'll try and catch some photo's of them

<span class="post_was_edited">On 2008-09-04 at 16:23:37, nurgleming asked to smell your meep</span>

got a few pics of this giant friendly looking beetle thing outside my back door awhile ago, he even has cool fan type feeler things:

Nurg, are you European? If not, than consider yourself lucky, because that's a meepchafer (HEE HEE), a European beetle sometimes called a Billy Witch, Spang Beetle or a May Bug, part of the genus Melolontha. Cool find.

cool, i found a load of meepchafers! i'm one of those britmeep's you hear about now and again, so i wont be finding anything poisonous, thank meep

Except the dentist.

ZING!