spiders aren't bugs, and that one picture is two spiders that are deceptively photographed to look large
Neutral-Bob
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Apr 11 2009 01:02 pm
I don't really mind beetles, they don't bother me at all. And the moth seemed pretty cool as well.
The one that bothered me was the Camel Spider...
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Apr 11 2009 01:08 pm
The fucking water bug is icky looking, the rest are varying levels of cool, with the moth and the walking stick fighting it out for the gold in my mind while the camel spider giant beetle and fat grasshopper all come in with so so silver shameful bronze and what's the fuckin point of being a grasshopper that's too big to hop rusted tin.
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Apr 11 2009 01:14 pm
When I was a kid I got to handle a Rhinoceros Beetle. It was really cool. We also used to get stick-bugs around our yard when I was a kid. It's the crickets and the spiders I can't stand.
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Blackout
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Apr 11 2009 01:18 pm
Spiders are awesome, I have made a pact with them that I will not smoosh them unless:
A: they have bitten me.
B: I am sleeping and do it by mistake, like when one crawled across my face and I smashed it into bits across my forehead.
As long as the two above scenarios do not take place I am more than happy to pick them up gently and put them on the ground or wall.
This pact obviously does not cover Black Widows or anything else capable of killing me.
Crickets Stink, go to the pet shop and stick your face near the cricket cage they have for people that need to feed lizards and shit, it will make you gag.
Neutral-Bob
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Apr 11 2009 01:25 pm
We get these really big crickets around here. Most people call them Cave Crickets. Unlike normal crickets they don't smoosh when you try and step on them. They have really hard bodies and if you step on them at the wrong angle (Which is practically any angle) their sharp legs will gouge your feet. To make matters worse they can get pretty damn big and are aggressive.
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Blackout
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Posted:
Apr 11 2009 01:30 pm
These?
Holy shit that's some biblical plague shit right there, do they travel in groups? Get yourself a polo hammer or something man.
Neutral-Bob
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Apr 11 2009 01:36 pm
Yeah, alot like that, however their eyes are smaller...welll...I don't even know if they have eyes. Their faces look a little like those of a shrimp, but their body structure is the same.
And no, but they congregate in wet places, so I always find at least three in my bath tub out of any given week.
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Apr 11 2009 02:41 pm
wow, those cave crickets are something else alright.
i hate cockroaches and flies. any other bug, im usually cool with. well, except maybe june bugs, but they only appear once a year so they're not that bad.
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Apr 11 2009 03:08 pm
Reminds me of this
That giant walking stick was pretty cool. I only really like bugs when I look at pictures of them or when their in a cage or something. Whenever there's some nasty bug in my house me and my Dad always run around freaking out and my Mom usually has to kill it. One thing I cannot stand is that we have these fucking CENTIPEDE things in our fucking bathroom. Jesus, those things are all kinds of wrong. They're all pale and shit and they have antennae sticking out all over the place. Sometimes I get up at night to go to the bathroom and there'll be one on the wall. I just go back to bed.
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Apr 11 2009 03:53 pm
Yeah, I've heard stores about Camel Spiders from some of my buddies who have been to Iraq. They end up hating them more than the terrorists by the end of their tour lol. Nasty little buggers. At least they aren't poisonous; I've been falsely told by a few people that they are.
Moth and butterflies and beetles are awesome though. As long as they stay outside.
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Apr 11 2009 05:22 pm
THE ONLY GOOD BUG IS A DEAD BUG
jackfrost
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Apr 11 2009 06:49 pm
Optimist With Doubts wrote:
spiders aren't bugs, and that one picture is two spiders that are deceptively photographed to look large
You might want to let the folks at Webster's Dictionary know that spiders aren't bugs.
Main Entry: bug
Function: noun
Etymology: origin unknown
Date: 1622
1 a: an insect or other creeping or crawling invertebrate (as a spider or centipede)
And opti, its not deceptive. Camel spiders a frigging huge.
Slightly better perspective there
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Apr 11 2009 10:56 pm
SoldierHawk wrote:
And opti, its not deceptive. Camel spiders a frigging huge.
Slightly better perspective there
That image is absoloutly horrifing.
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Apr 11 2009 11:08 pm
I find that the Birdeater would be more horrifying to the usual person.
Black Zarak
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Apr 12 2009 12:21 am
Thorinair wrote:
SoldierHawk wrote:
And opti, its not deceptive. Camel spiders a frigging huge.
Slightly better perspective there
That image is absoloutly horrifing.
That sirs and madame, is not a camel spider, that is a sea spider which is not really a true spider at all and is so puny and weak and native to such depths, that you never need fear one. And camel spiders have a bad and undeserved reputation; they're not poisonous, they do not chase people across the desert and they are not vicious little killing machines. They are also not nearly as big as that picture makes them look (note how there is no real point of reference for a size comparison), the largest species have a legspan of about five inches.
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Apr 12 2009 12:40 am
Tyop wrote:
THE ONLY GOOD BUG IS A DEAD BUG
Absolutely seconded. Insects are the bane of my existance. What childhood I had is marred with memories of being afraid to play with legos or NES in my basement because of all the freaking insects. Fun adventures I've had with insects:
Age four: playing with legos, an orange spider comes up to me, I smash it with the NES game Jordan vs. Bird (what else was I going to do with it.) Then I happen to look behind me and what I can only describe as a mini-tarantula comes toward me. I run upstairs, screaming.
Age five: I'm on vacation visiting relatives in South Carolina. For some reason, there's a large anthill in their backyard. Being the idiot that I was, I throw a toy shovel into the middle of it. Also, due to my idiocy, I for some reason decided to lay down on the nearby gravel. The ants somehow find me and start climbing on my legs and biting. Hard.
Age six: I'm running around the kindergarden playground when I run up to the only tree in the field, and some kind of blueish-giant-fly starts making a hissing noise at me. I run away, screaming.
Age nine: I'm in my brother's apartment when he informs me that his pet millipede has escaped the cage. Being as there was nowhere to run and scream, I lock myself in the bathroom until he finds it.
Age twelve: I wake up and see a brown recluse about two feet from my face. After running away screaming, I get pissed off (I came back and it was still there) and smash it into oblivion with a flyswatter.
...despite my misfortune with insects. I am happy to say that I have never been stung by anything, ever (be it a bee, wasp, yellow jacket, hornet, etc.), probably due to my extreme phobia of anything resembling a bee or wasp.
jackfrost
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Posted:
Apr 12 2009 02:24 am
Black Zarak wrote:
Thorinair wrote:
SoldierHawk wrote:
And opti, its not deceptive. Camel spiders a frigging huge.
Slightly better perspective there
That image is absoloutly horrifing.
That sirs and madame, is not a camel spider, that is a sea spider which is not really a true spider at all and is so puny and weak and native to such depths, that you never need fear one. And camel spiders have a bad and undeserved reputation; they're not poisonous, they do not chase people across the desert and they are not vicious little killing machines. They are also not nearly as big as that picture makes them look (note how there is no real point of reference for a size comparison), the largest species have a legspan of about five inches.
If the average person sees a spider with a leg span of five inches, I'm sorry, that is going to freak them out. I am not excluded from that category. That bastard would be dead if it came near me. If its not in danger of going exstinct I don't give a shit if it dies. Sorry, camel spider is turning into camel spider goo if I see one.
When I was little, I remember eating a few Nilla Wafers and watching some show on TV when a spider just decided to drop down its webline and stop its descent RIGHT IN FRONT OF MY EYES, only a few inches away. needless to say, i have a cool/SMASH relationship with such creatures.
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Optimist With Doubts
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Posted:
Apr 12 2009 02:48 am
SoldierHawk wrote:
And opti, its not deceptive. Camel spiders a frigging huge.
Slightly better perspective there
well yeah they are huge just not the size of a human leg as the photo makes it seem
Blackout
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Apr 12 2009 04:09 am
I'd like to point out that so called camel spiders are actually a relative of the scorpion and not technically spiders.
Wikipedia wrote:
Solifugae are not true spiders, which are from a different order, Araneae. Like scorpions and harvestmen, they belong to a distinct arachnid order.
Also I'm appalled at everyone's bug intolerance around here. For shame you guys, if it does not pose a threat to you or attack you leave it alone.
SoldierHawk
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Apr 12 2009 05:07 am
Blackout wrote:
Also I'm appalled at everyone's bug intolerance around here. For shame you guys, if it does not pose a threat to you or attack you leave it alone.
Well I'm actually with you there. I'm one of those lamoes that actually tries to catch bugs and put them outside, or pick them off the sidewalk so they don't get smooshed. (I admit I make an exception for ants or roaches though.)
That said, if I ever find a spider bigger than my hand, that thing is dead or out the door, whichever is easier. No thank you.
And for the record, I had no idea that was a sea spider! I google-imaged Camel Spider, that came up, and since it look pretty much like the others ones. I assumed it was the same. Learn something new every day. *goes to look up sea spider on wiki*
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Neutral-Bob
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Apr 12 2009 05:11 am
I'm usually with you on that, however Camel Spiders are the exception. Those things are crazy as all get out. Some of the ones I have seen can look pretty hideous, the worst one being this really messed-up one with red spots on it and a darker colouring. I can't stand those things.
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