Creepy crawlies

[b-grrrlie]

We seem to have a few into entomology here, does anyone know what this is?

It was found in a pool in LA

it's pretty ugly so don't be alarmed






http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/7679/img43489om.th.jpg (http://img175.imageshack.us/my.php?image=img43489om.jpg)

[enree erzweglle]

I hope that's one of those little pencils they give you when you play mini-golf. If not .:eek:.

[cosmo105]

POTATO BUG!

god those are creepy.

my dad said as a kid he and his friends called them "ninos de la tierra," children of the earth. if you look closely they have little faces. uggh.

i always found them at the bottom of the pool in water polo. *shiver* :(

haha
http://www.ccmuseum.org/KidsPages/potatobug.jpg

[Lindsey_1535]

THAT IS FUCKIN NASTY! :(

[enree erzweglle]

POTATO BUG!
That's where I've seen that bug before!

In a box of Kraft macaroni and cheese.

I poured the noodley bits into the water and that bug (dead) came out.

I looked for hours on google images to find out what it was and remember IDing him as a potato bug.

I'd never seen a bug like that before.

We might get ugly winters over here but our bugs are almost cute compared to what you guys get.

[cosmo105]

http://www.purviance.com/photos/images/bugs/atomicPotatoBug_040411.jpg

[enree erzweglle]

OT but still an interesting (and gross) read:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4472521.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/05/sci_nat_enl_1114164977/img/laun.jpg

Fierce ants build 'torture rack'

A fierce species of Amazonian ant has been seen building elaborate traps on which hapless prey are stretched like medieval torture victims, before being slowly hacked to pieces.

With cunning and patience, Allomerus decemarticulatus worker-ants cut hairs from the stem of the plant they inhabit, and use the tiny fibres to build a spongy snare, Nature magazine reports.

This ingenious feat of engineering has only ever been observed in one other species of related ant, French researchers say.

The ants cut hairs to clear a path under the plant stem, while leaving some hairs standing to form "pillars" on top of which the lethal platform will sit.

Using the plant hairs they have harvested, the ants weave the platform itself, which is bound together and strengthened using a special fungus.

When the ants have completed the chamber they puncture holes all along its surface, each just big enough to poke their heads through.

Then, hundreds of worker ants climb into the chamber and wait for an unfortunate victim.

Ancient sacrifice

"Workers will hide inside the platform, with their mandibles just inside the hole and they will wait there for prey to come," co-author Jerome Orivel of the University of Toulouse, France said.

Anything with legs slim enough to fit through the carefully constructed holes will meet a miserable fate if they are foolish enough to enter the trap.

"They will catch almost anything that goes on the trap," continued Dr Orivel. "And they will grab anything they can - legs, antenna, anything."

Once the prey is well secured by jaws fastening all its extremities, it is stretched over the platform like an ancient sacrifice to the gods.

Scores of worker ants then stream out from inside the trap and sting it vigorously to cause paralysis.

Once the creature is dead or fully immobilised, the ants will carry it to their nest, where they will dismember their prey before carrying it inside.

"Small insects will be immediately dismembered and transported to the nest," said Dr Orivel. "But bigger insects will stay on the trap for up to 12 hours."

There is no limit to the ants' ambition and they will attempt to catch any mammoth of the insect world - so long as it has slender legs.

"Their success depends on the type of insect," Dr Orivel told the BBC News website. "The insects' legs have to be smaller than the holes otherwise they cannot get hold of them.

"The ants must have something to catch - for example, caterpillars will have nothing to get hold of so they will not be preyed upon."

[cosmo105]

see, this is why i still squish bugs. i may be vegan, but some insects are EVIL and deserve to die.

[enree erzweglle]

see, this is why i still squish bugs. i may be vegan, but some insects are EVIL and deserve to die.
Those ants--I'd squish them if they tried to string me up like that.

[cosmo105]

i'd totally pull you off the ant rack, and cuss them out and call them jerks while doing so.

and then sic a potato bug on them.

[RaZoRbLaDe KiSs]

ew, that thing is freakin' nasty man, ive seen it somewhere before though :confused:

right now, im in florida, and ive seen some pretty sick shit around here, ive seen roaches or "palmeto bugs" that are HUGE, and those are gross.
The other day i was looking for this skink and i ran into a scorpion and a centipede, all on the same board.

Oh and heres a gross story for ya:
yesterday i was helping my uncle build this shed, and a spider (who's body was about as big as a flippin' quarter - no lie) crawled out from under one of the boards, and i HATE spiders, so my uncle squished it, and about a hundred or more tiny babies came scurrying out from underneath it.
My uncle said the babies were hanging onto the mommy's belly - and then they ran all over the place. I was freakin out. :eek:

[cosmo105]

probably a Wolf Spider. its offspring hang onto its belly for quite a while before going their own ways. *you can go your own way*

http://mwhitmirenaturephotos.com/Images/Butterflies/Originals/Wolf%20Spider%20with%20Babies.jpg

[enree erzweglle]

i'd totally pull you off the ant rack, and cuss them out and call them jerks while doing so.

and then sic a potato bug on them.
Awww! I have little hearts shooting out of my avatar eye now.

[enree erzweglle]

This thread is making my back itch and the guy down the hall--he's not the scratching type and even if he was--ewww. I'll just wiggle up & against the back of my chair.

[cosmo105]

:o
http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/4495/dolphinheart4kb.jpg

[enree erzweglle]

I love that. I'm going to wait until way early tomorrow morning and print it on the best printer in the building. I got nothin to give back except some really good blueberries. here.

[beastieangel01]

http://lancaster.unl.edu/enviro/Images/Insects/housecnt.jpg

I HATE those things. They don't do any harm but eeee! they give me the creeps. They move weird, kinda back and forth like a snake and SUPER fast over the walls and stuff. ew ew ew ew ew e we w we wkerlneiwrh l;aekrhngtowi;tw[4yt


sorry. I used to deal with them ALL the time when I lived in VA. Argh!

[cuckyposs]

Q: Do Potato Bugs eat potatoes?
A: Potato Bugs eat your cheeks. (http://www.potatobugs.com/faq/index.html)

[beastieangel01]

Q: Why are potato bugs so ugly and frightening? Why do they look part human? Where did they come from?
A: The most widely held belief is that God didn’t create potato bugs. It was Satan’s work.

haha!

[b-grrrlie]

I was just about to post that potatobug (http://www.potatobugs.com/)-page.
I really wouldn't want to encounter those, I'm glad I live in these cold tempered areas. And those other creepers make me itch under my skin!

[TurdBerglar]

http://lancaster.unl.edu/enviro/Images/Insects/housecnt.jpg

I HATE those things. They don't do any harm but eeee! they give me the creeps. They move weird, kinda back and forth like a snake and SUPER fast over the walls and stuff. ew ew ew ew ew e we w we wkerlneiwrh l;aekrhngtowi;tw[4yt


sorry. I used to deal with them ALL the time when I lived in VA. Argh!


we have those things in the bathroom. you should see the epic wars between the spiders and the centipedes that play out as im takeing a shit. they'll fuckn' bite you too and they're a bit poisoness like spiders. they leave a fairly big welt.

[cj hood]

http://lancaster.unl.edu/enviro/Images/Insects/housecnt.jpg

I HATE those things. They don't do any harm but eeee! they give me the creeps. They move weird, kinda back and forth like a snake and SUPER fast over the walls and stuff. ew ew ew ew ew e we w we wkerlneiwrh l;aekrhngtowi;tw[4yt


sorry. I used to deal with them ALL the time when I lived in VA. Argh!


the first pic is an insect cuz it has 6 legs......this thing's a house centipede.......i killed one last night......they're nocturnal and are poisonous to their prey...

[Freebasser]

I'm so glad I live in a country with only one poisonous animal, and even then I've never seen one.

http://www.williambmontgomery.com/natural/image/vipera_1.jpg :/

[miss soul fire]

It looks like the bee's cousin.:D

[Dr Deaf]

canadian potatoe bugs are waaaaaaaay different / less menacing. they roll up into a froot-loop size and crunch when you eat.. erm step on them.

[cuckyposs]

http://lancaster.unl.edu/enviro/Images/Insects/housecnt.jpg

I HATE those things. They don't do any harm but eeee! they give me the creeps. They move weird, kinda back and forth like a snake and SUPER fast over the walls and stuff. ew ew ew ew ew e we w we wkerlneiwrh l;aekrhngtowi;tw[4yt


sorry. I used to deal with them ALL the time when I lived in VA. Argh!
I have an irrational fear of those babies too, makes me think it'd make a good monochromatic tattoo (rendered symmetrically)

[SobaViolence]

canadian potatoe bugs are waaaaaaaay different / less menacing. they roll up into a froot-loop size and crunch when you eat.. erm step on them.

those americans and their crazy, hellspawn insects...

[like2_drink]

http://lancaster.unl.edu/enviro/Images/Insects/housecnt.jpg


http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/1737/bluelegcentipede1rr.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

if i'm right they can kill small children..or something

[HEIRESS]

those americans and their crazy, hellspawn insects...

ehehehehe

being a biology major Ive held some weird ass mufukkin bugs
like GODDAMN
stick bugs are cool, so are 30 cm long millipedes fatter than my thumb

Im pretty much cool with any bug except moths cause the fukkers fly at your face and shit GAJGHAKSJHGKSAJHGSKJHGSKDGKJSh

[steve-onpoint]

[COLOR=DarkOrchid]We seem to have a few into entomology here, does anyone know what this is?

It was found in a pool in LA

it's pretty ugly so don't be alarmed



dag. i thought you were referring to the wacky wall crawlers that Dr. Fad invented.

[QueenAdrock]

The other day i was looking for this skink and i ran into a scorpion and a centipede, all on the same board.

You have skinks where you are? I have a schneider's skink (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v131/QueenAdrock1/pets/dianasammy.jpg) but I was pretty sure that breed is indigenous to Iraq/Africa/Australia. You can play with him all you want and he never bites or anything. And when he gets bored, he just buries himself and goes to sleep. He's awesome.


And COSMO I FUCKING HATE THOSE PHOTOS OF SPIDERS WITH THEIR BABIES ON THEIR BELLIES THAT'S SO GODDAMN GROSS

BAD. BAD. NO. :mad: (n)