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Re: Which insect freaks you out the most? [Re: Octavian]
#14819045 - 07/24/11 06:17 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Here's a really awesome article on some fucked up insects. Couple of the insects you guys named make an appearance.
http://www.cracked.com/article_15816_the-5-most-horrifying-bugs-in-world.html
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Re: Which insect freaks you out the most? [Re: NewWavePeace]
#14819153 - 07/24/11 06:48 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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NewWavePeace said: These motherfuckers
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Re: Which insect freaks you out the most? [Re: NewWavePeace]
#14819177 - 07/24/11 06:56 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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NewWavePeace said: These motherfuckers
jesus fucking christ. a small child could ride on the back of that thing.
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Re: Which insect freaks you out the most? [Re: snoot]
#14819207 - 07/24/11 07:02 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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I remember on some show they where in South America and kids down there had beetles like that as pets with little leashes attached to them.
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Re: Which insect freaks you out the most? [Re: snoot]
#14819230 - 07/24/11 07:08 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Pine beetles are high up on my freak out list.
They have such strong exoskeletons that you cannot easily crush them. They bite just as hard as you would expect from a bug that eats wood. They fly. They have freakishly long antennae. They are decimating forests throughout Canada (at least the asian ones are).
When I'm on a tree planting job up north, I usually end up planting a lot of pine. I usually end up smelling like pine. I usually end up being dive bombed by a beetle or two that mistakes me for a pine tree.
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Re: Which insect freaks you out the most? [Re: HairyTaco]
#14819248 - 07/24/11 07:12 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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DEXmanLOOP said: a muddobber!!!! those mother fuckers hurt.
Mud dauber? What did you do to piss it off. I have never seen one give two fucks about someone.
Now the bald faced hornet
These mother fucker attack when you look at their nest, and dammit they hurt like a son of a bitch. I got stung on the hand once and I had pulses of pain for a good 30 minutes.
The Bald face hornets don't seem too aggressive here in Ontario, they also seem to be pretty rare in my neck of the woods.
Just a few weeks ago, I was working on a ladder on the side of a house. I didn't even notice the nest until it was only a foot away from my face. It was the size of a cantaloupe, and I could see a few of those Bald faced hornets sitting on the nest just eying me. I was too lazy to climb back down the ladder to grab some wasp spray, so I just worked really slow and they left me alone, even though I was working within a foot of their nest.
have u seen the BFH's stinger up close
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Re: Which insect freaks you out the most? [Re: shivas.wisdom]
#14819252 - 07/24/11 07:13 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Okay these freak me out
Bark Beetles, they are killing forests.
Can you spot the Beetle highway?
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Re: Which insect freaks you out the most? [Re: Coaster]
#14819268 - 07/24/11 07:18 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Coaster said: have u seen the BFH's stinger up close
Is that why it hurt so much... Oh wait maybe it is also this
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Science has discovered that the hornet sting contains acetylcholine, which is reported to stimulate pain nerves more than the stings of other wasps and bees.
Crazy pic coaster
Oh and http://www.painfulbite.com/most_painful.php
I have to disagree in there placement between 6 and 7, I think it needs to be reversed.
Oh wait a paper wasp is #3? Not in my book. Maybe the BFH gives me a bit more of a reaction.
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Re: Which insect freaks you out the most? [Re: 4runner]
#14819269 - 07/24/11 07:18 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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the most fucked up arachnids ever.
i would scream like a girl if i ever saw one of these in my home.
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Oh shit is that the Cave Spider. There was an episode on Fear Factor where, if I remember right they had to eat those fuckers. Ah no, not me, k thanx by.
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SamuelLJackson said: the most fucked up arachnids ever.
i would scream like a girl if i ever saw one of these in my home.
those arent poisonous or harmful really, they as far as I know migrated to america thanks to the millitary from iraq and the middle east. My homie works on the docks at a naval base and says they are all over there. He actually has a couple as a pet, and says they arent aggressive at all just intimidating. they often refereed to as 'whip spiders'.
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Re: Which insect freaks you out the most? [Re: snoot]
#14819344 - 07/24/11 07:37 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Re: Which insect freaks you out the most? [Re: 4runner]
#14819362 - 07/24/11 07:41 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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looks like a good protein snack to me.
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Re: Which insect freaks you out the most? [Re: GuruBushHippie]
#14819430 - 07/24/11 07:55 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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GuruBushHippie said: looks like a good protein snack to me.
Only if I was starving.
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Re: Which insect freaks you out the most? [Re: 4runner]
#14819586 - 07/24/11 08:31 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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They are a cousin of the Vinegaroon. Which im sure some of you have seen if you live in the southwest.
I saw the tailess whip scorpions for the first time at butterfly world down in south florida. Was amazing. Ive wanted one ever since.
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Re: Which insect freaks you out the most? [Re: Octavian]
#14819630 - 07/24/11 08:40 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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That last pic looks like a Jerusalem cricket/spider/scorpion.
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Re: Which insect freaks you out the most? [Re: 4runner]
#14819731 - 07/24/11 09:07 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Jerusalem Cricket
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Re: Which insect freaks you out the most? [Re: Octavian]
#14819759 - 07/24/11 09:12 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Wow there are some amazing insects and arachnids in this thread.
The Dobson Fly is a weird one that always freaked me the fuck out as a young kid. I would only see one or 2 a year and I always thought it was some sort of invasion from another country(like africanized bees).
They are harmless though.
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Re: Which insect freaks you out the most? [Re: Patlal]
#14819769 - 07/24/11 09:14 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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I know it's not an insect, but an arachnid. OP indicates arachnids are fair game though.
Spiders, fucking spiders.
I'm a scorpio.
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I love spiders.
Im going to buy me one of these when i have the time. YES THERE ARE BUG STORES. lol...
Trapdoor-you will never see them. So its cool. And they are very poisonous.
HOLY FUCK
Most spiders are not only solitary, but aggressively antisocial, indiscriminately attacking and preying upon any other spider to cross their path at the wrong time. A rare handful, however, have demonstrated varying degrees of communal behavior, and perhaps none are so social as Theridion nigroannulatum, a species discovered only recently in the forests of Ecuador. These tiny spiders form colonies of up to several thousand individuals, which cling to the undersides of large leaves and dangle threads of silk to the forest floor. When an insect stumbles into these nearly invisible trip wires, dozens of spiders may descend at once to encase the prey in silk, incapacitate it with venom and haul it back up to be shared among the colony.
nightmare
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