Bugs!

[DandyFop]

I love close-up photos of various bugs and insects. They are all pretty fascinating, don't you think?

http://static.flickr.com/40/123862803_ea1ef57e99_m.jpg

http://images.google.com/url?q=http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/NGSPOD03/105946~Close-view-of-a-ladybug-Posters.jpg&sig=__uPW9n5zJM0Kca5dA8hHHI71QoO8=

http://static.flickr.com/21/38526305_d7e1a73087_m.jpg

http://home.insightbb.com/~rrambo/bee_closeup.jpg

These fuckers really creep me out though
http://static.flickr.com/33/40680046_884c349f43_m.jpg

[DandyFop]

Jesus...pure evil!
http://www.earthsbirthday.org/butterflies/mantids/images/closeup.jpg

http://www.tightloop.com/ants/images/myrmim/CRW_0496.jpg
http://www.mrx.no/albums/macro/Ant_Closeup.sized.jpg

Look at the crazy butterfly tongue!

http://www.oznet.ksu.edu/johnson/hort/Butterfly/Lifecycles04.jpg
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Pointe/5577/N/Btflyphoto1.jpg

p.s. - the first image that comes up when you type "butterfly close up" is pretty funny

[Lyman Zerga]

post so many pictures of bugs till you find the ones i have here
and dont forget their name

tip: they are black and their ass is white/black striped

kthxbai

[venusvenus123]

when i look at bugs, i wish i had a built-in microscope function in my eyeballs.

three cheers for bugs.

[DandyFop]

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/NGSPOD04/109358~Close-up-of-a-red-geometrid-moth-caterpillar-Posters.jpg

http://www.acclaimimages.com/_gallery/_SM/0129-0601-0920-3734_SM.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/dc/Caterpillar_at_5th_stage.jpg/250px-Caterpillar_at_5th_stage.jpg

[enree erzweglle]

This article and the photo scared me. :eek:

Full article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4472521.stm



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.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/05/sci_nat_enl_1114164977/img/1.jpg
the ants divide labour according to age, with the oldest individuals being trap builders

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.

The ants trapping an insect
There is no limit to the ants' ambition - they will try to catch any mammoth of the insect world
"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."

[enree erzweglle]

These fuckers really creep me out though
http://static.flickr.com/33/40680046_884c349f43_m.jpgI love them and their little heart-shaped heads. I love when they turn to look right at me. Is that the part that scares you, the looking-at-you part?

One of my favorite bugs:
http://wdbj.images.worldnow.com/images/3974468_SS.jpg

And not so much for their looks (in shell or out of it) but more for their sound:
http://misheli.image.pbase.com/u47/sigmasd9/large/30676823.cicada_on_porch.jpg

There is a tiny white bug that flies around in mid-summer. It looks like fluff, but it's really just a bit of white cotton with wings. It's iddy biddy and I've never known the name of it but it's gorgeous and delicate and a favorite of mine.

[Dr Deaf]

This article and the photo scared me. :eek:

Full article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4472521.stm



^i remember reading about that awhile back, killer. (y)

that article reminded me of the awesome 30 hornets massacre 30,000 honeybees (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v23GFc0KG4c) video. total fucking carnage.

i prefer to watch it with drowning pools / let the bodies hit the floor (http://anarkystpaintball.com/music/Bodies.mp3) :cool:

[Lyman Zerga]

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid212/p78f9f7c33cc24e4724e42753ed1041fe/ed576bc6.jpg

i just took this picture

that grasshopper bitch is sitting on my balcony


and im all alone and scared

i mean it tried to chew my toe off!

[tracky]

Well you just chew his toe off and see how he likes it

[DandyFop]

I love them and their little heart-shaped heads. I love when they turn to look right at me. Is that the part that scares you, the looking-at-you part?



Yes, combined with them rubbing their "hands" together all meniacally.

that article you posted is crazy.

and that hornets video, I could only watch a bit. I wonder how the fuck they filmed all that.

[enree erzweglle]

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/NGSPOD04/109358~Close-up-of-a-red-geometrid-moth-caterpillar-Posters.jpg
Ahh, I love inchworms! One was inching along my driver's side mirror just last week and I pulled over to let him inch onto my hand and then I put him in a patch of some sort of white flowering trumpet vine and he inched his way along one of them. Who knows, maybe trumpet plants are poison to inchworms and I did him a horrible disservice, but he seemed happy enough for that little while at least.

When I had daylillies in the front yard (they've all finished now) there were these gorgeous and terribly delicate looking skinny grasshopper like green bugs on them each night. Just a few here and there, they added enough brilliant green to offset against the yellow and orange of the flowers and it was beautiful. I don't know what sort of bug they were and they didn't seem to do any harm so I didn't remove them.

I sort of dislike the look of slugs and they eat a lot of the shade-loving plants that I have and early in the morning when I'm heading off to the gym, they're often lining the path where I walk and I absolutely hate to step on them. I use my cellphone to light the way.
http://members.limitless.org/~emma/nbtsc2000/nbtsc081.jpg

[cosmo105]

that article reminded me of the awesome 30 hornets massacre 30,000 honeybees (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v23GFc0KG4c) video. total fucking carnage.
that national geographic special is fucking awesome.

[mickill]

http://www.nhm.org/guana/bvi-invt/bvi-surv/images/educ-i01/stu-125m.jpg

[venusvenus123]

yikes!:eek: it's gone from cute creepy crawly things to scary giant worms.

sweet dreams!!! :(

[b-grrrlie]

A couple of weeks ago...

http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/7441/vrtbitarewf3.jpg

[mickill]

yikes!:eek: it's gone from cute creepy crawly things to scary giant worms.

sweet dreams!!! :(
I know. Imagine my horror when I found one of these things crawling on my shoulder IN THE SHOWER.

[b i o n i c]

holy fucking christ i would motherfucking DIE

i accidently picked up a slug thinking it was something else all curled up, i nearly pissed in my pants when i realized - true story

[kaiser soze]

you flippin' read my mind Dandy!

I was considering doing a bugs thread with all the crazy critters popping around here, but feared people would be too squeemish

;)

Here's a live moth outside my place and a dead moth and monarch in my apartment

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y132/rhythmfiction/bigmoth.jpg 5 inches head to tip of wings

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y132/rhythmfiction/DSCF0535.jpg 7 inch wingspan!

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y132/rhythmfiction/DSCF0538.jpg just one of the many monarchs flying around outside my place

[Drederick Tatum]

that article reminded me of the awesome 30 hornets massacre 30,000 honeybees (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v23GFc0KG4c) video. total fucking carnage.


oh man, that was nuts. some Wagner would've been good too.

[monkey]

i saw a huge praying mantis in the city the other way. it was so strangely out of place yet it STILL creeped me out. the bf went and put it back in a green spot. last week, he also saved a turtle from getting ran over on a major blvd. he's my hero.

anyway... i find bugs really creepy, though fascinating. i just get grossed out by their undersides. but worms, oh man, i love me some worms.

http://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/research/urban/images/smoore/Oligochaete.jpg

[ampm]

When you say 'bugs' I'm assuming you mean 'arthropods.' Because I see insects, arachnids and chilopods represented in these pictures. If you are talking about arthropods, you could also include crustaceans and diplopods. However, worms are not 'bug's and either are slugs. The worm Mickill pictured looks like a giant earthworm which would belong to the Annelida Class. And the slug (which I'm guessing is a Bananna Slug) is a mollusk.

[TAL]

http://www.tombraider4u.com/pictures/bugs-bunny-4.jpg

[befsquire]

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y58/befsquire/dragonfly1.jpg



http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y58/befsquire/dragonfly2.jpg

[ericlee]

http://coffee-and-pie.com/media/img/f35f3f59/Spider-Bug-i.jpg

http://www.misterw.com/BM2002/bm416b.jpg

http://www.seriouswheels.com/pics-1960-1969/1966-Volkswagen-Bug-maroon-custom-ma.jpg

http://japanese.engadget.com/images/2006/03/VW_Rear_Dr_Open1_PScopy.jpg

http://www.roadtripamerica.com/roadside/Nevada-Carson-City-VW-Bug-01.jpg

[ericlee]

http://cache.jalopnik.com/assets/resources/2006/12/bug_camper.jpg

http://www.craftsmanshipmuseum.com/images/DeMvw.jpg

http://my.net-link.net/~dcline/vw_tc3.jpg

http://neatorama.cachefly.net/images/2007-07/vw-beetle-rabbit.jpg

http://www.lowmusic.addr.com/beetlejuice.jpg