Most Favorite Insect
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Topic: Most Favorite Insect
Posted By: boo boo
Subject: Most Favorite Insect
Date Posted: February 21 2011 at 10:01
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This forum doesn't need to be all prejudiced against insects and sh*t, know what I'm sayin? We have a poll for all the insects that piss us off, so I'm gonna be fair and make one for the insects that are awesome. I know Moths like to eat your clothes and Crickets can keep you up at night but they're still cool.------------- http://www.last.fm/user/kingboobs/?chartstyle=LastfmSuicjdeGirls" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: February 21 2011 at 10:13
Fireflies seem pretty harmless, and they're a nice indicator of summer weather. Plus, it was a great series.  I recognize the overall importance of bees, though.
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Posted By: timothy leary
Date Posted: February 21 2011 at 10:42
| I am going with honeybees. As a beekeeper they always amaze me with their work ethic. As pollinators they rule. And the honey is true ambrosia. Watching them at work is to see coordination par excellence. |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: February 21 2011 at 12:19
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Man that's a hard poll.
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Posted By: NecronCommander
Date Posted: February 21 2011 at 12:30
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Probably beetles are my favorite insect. Especially big ones like the Hercules beetle or the Rhinoceros beetle. -------------  
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Posted By: Lark the Starless
Date Posted: February 21 2011 at 12:33
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I guess ants. ------------- 
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Posted By: CPicard
Date Posted: February 21 2011 at 13:29
| Wasps. |
Posted By: refugee
Date Posted: February 21 2011 at 13:52
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Much harder than the other insect poll. For sheer beauty, butterflies and dragonflies. For cuteness, ladybugs (they’re useful, too). For cool looks, beetles, mantices, crickets and grasshoppers. For interesting society, pollination and honey — the bees, of course. Still, there’s something special with the walking stick/stick bug. I’ve never seen one in real life, but they look fascinating and make good pets (according to Wikipedia).
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Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: February 21 2011 at 14:29
| I went with stick bugs |
Posted By: The Monodrone
Date Posted: February 21 2011 at 14:42
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Dragonflies, fo sho. -------------  
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Posted By: Formentera Lady
Date Posted: February 21 2011 at 14:51
That's my favourite: Is it really called ladybug in English? But it is not a bug... 
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Posted By: June
Date Posted: February 21 2011 at 16:32
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Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: February 21 2011 at 16:50
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defenitly the
MANTIS, naures own gilliotin
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: February 21 2011 at 18:23
I decided to go mantis. They're kind of cute in an insect sort of way. Plus I have to give them credit for that Umphrey's McGee album.  ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: February 21 2011 at 18:33
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I am glad they arent that big though, not like a horse size. -------------
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Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: February 21 2011 at 18:37
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Mantis and Dragonfly are most awesome -------------
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Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: February 21 2011 at 18:40
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just read on wiki, Mantis and cockroaches are in same family, related insect class, so both are hardcore animals with huge survivla insitncts then, neat...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictyoptera" rel="nofollow - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictyoptera -------------
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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: February 21 2011 at 20:28
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fond of the assassin bug (Reduviidae) are there really people being kept up by crickets? seems better than jet traffic or automatic weapons fire |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: February 21 2011 at 20:49
By a slight margin.  By the way, finding that the mantises are related to roaches is rather disconcerting.  ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Atavachron wrote:Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: February 21 2011 at 21:31
as a child I found the distant sounds of Kalishnikovs quite soothing
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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: February 21 2011 at 21:38
mmm, yes, and the k-toom of the occasional RPG... brings back fond memories, I'm getting teary |
Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: February 21 2011 at 22:07
| On the serious David, if we open our windows on a cool summer evening the crickets can be very loud. |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: February 21 2011 at 22:22
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sounds wonderful to me |
Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: February 21 2011 at 22:25
I don't mind it myself, but I'm a pretty sound sleeper.
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Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: February 22 2011 at 02:53
and Termites
something unsetteling about roaches,
but if reallity was like a Marvel comic, I would not mind to be bitten by a radioactive cockroach, you will gain much of it...
  (wierd it dose not sensour cock)Cockroach or Blattaria
 Termite or Isoptera
 Mantis or Mantodea
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Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: February 22 2011 at 03:03
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I suddenly cought a facination with the roach familly of any insects why the roaches, or termites or mantis, becouse they are survievers, they look tough and are tough, don't mess withem, even though they can be a plague, but humans and roaches have similaritys, (they are everywhere)
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Posted By: Syzygy
Date Posted: February 22 2011 at 04:38
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I keep stick insects as pets, so they get my vote. I also like photographing insects using the macro function on my camera. Insects are definitely prog lifeforms. ------------- 'Like so many of you I've got my doubts about how much to contribute to the already rich among us...' Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: February 22 2011 at 04:50
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I like bees, both honey and bumble. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: February 22 2011 at 04:50
Ladybirds are pretty good too
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: February 22 2011 at 04:53
Ladybird in English (I know it isn't a bird either) Ladybug in American. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: February 22 2011 at 06:09
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Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: February 22 2011 at 06:12
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Fireflies.
I just like the whole phenomenon of biolumuniscence. The idea that animals can produce light. Or elektricity, but that's an other story.
I never noticed any fireflies in Europe, even though Wikipedia says they have to be here, yes, even in Belgium three species. But I saw them in the US when I was a teenager, and I thought they were fantastic.
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: February 22 2011 at 06:45
I was looking up pics and these guys seem to be in many locations around the world. I grew up with them and have them at my home. (I just realized that statement is a bit odd, they only occasionally make it inside... ) They don't sting you or suck your blood or anything. Just fascinating. Moths have really interesting antennae  Butterfly have to be the most pretty of insects:  ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Posted By: Prog Geo
Date Posted: February 22 2011 at 09:45
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A normal man hates insects.So,this man doesn't have a favorite insect.He just wants the elimination of them.I am one of those men!But I'm not normal.I'm logical.
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: February 22 2011 at 09:49
Insects are vital for the planet. Man isn't. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: boo boo
Date Posted: February 22 2011 at 11:08
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Haha. PWNED.
I love the sound of crickets. Nothing like sitting on a front porch on a lovely night, listening to the frogs and crickets.
But yeah, sometimes they can get a little too rowdy when I'm trying to sleep.  ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/kingboobs/?chartstyle=LastfmSuicjdeGirls" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: February 22 2011 at 11:30
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My house which is in the final stages of flood repairs used to be vulnerable to critters getting in. Crickets outside, OK. When one makes it inside and you can't find it, they are damned annoying.
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Posted By: crimhead
Date Posted: February 22 2011 at 13:04
| Bees. We'd all be screwed without them. |
Posted By: LinusW
Date Posted: February 22 2011 at 13:25
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: February 22 2011 at 13:28
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Posted By: LinusW
Date Posted: February 22 2011 at 13:33
| ...and I very much recommend "Life in the Undergrowth". Great introduction to the world of insects and invertebrates in general. |
Posted By: Rasvamakkara
Date Posted: February 22 2011 at 13:40
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I guess I'm a butterfly man. I got interested in butterflies during the three weeks last summer we spent doing a little practice study on one population's (or the metapopulation's in that area) movements and abundance. Nothing like getting study credits for running through sunny meadows catching butterflies. I'm actually thinking about starting a little butterfly collection this year. |
Posted By: LinusW
Date Posted: February 22 2011 at 13:49
Åland? Ilkka Hanski? |
Posted By: Rasvamakkara
Date Posted: February 23 2011 at 01:25
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Nah, this was just a three week summer course obligatory to all ecology and environmental biology students here. I'll probably try to get a short job in Hanski's research this year if I don't have anything else at the time. It doesn't pay much, but at least it would give some experience even if it's just going around fields looking for Melitae cinxia |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: February 23 2011 at 04:36
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the first five in this list are all my faves... tough choice between those
I once saved a Monarch butterfly stuck in a cobweb in my backyard shed... It was almost dead, totally exhausted from trying to free itself... so when i manged to pry it ou, I set it on the garden table and let it in the sun... it didn't move....
Then I cut a lilac flower (it was in May) and set it right next to the butterfly... it could smell the flowers, but it was too weak to move, so I took a pencil and unrolled its trunk into a flower... all it had to do was sip and drink... it did so...
I then moved its trunk to another flower and again it drank the nectar... it started moving its wings and moved its trunk itself to another flower and after doing so for another two flowers before flapping its wings and trying to fly... when it managed to take off, it stayed and fluttered by me for around one hour in the garden, even landing on my shoulder twice.... I guess it was thanking me for saving iots life
Definitely a heart-warming experience
  even though three days later it was probably dead - butterflies don't live long, it's the last and shortest stage of the catterpillar and chrydalis bug
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Ever tried to feed a lovebug??? give it a tine herb-poached salmon "crumb"... it'll suck the juices out of it like crazy ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: Syzygy
Date Posted: February 23 2011 at 05:44
It varies considerably from species to species - monarch butterflies can live for up to 12 months in their adult state, but most northern hemisphere butterflies are around for 4 - 8 weeks in the adult stage. There are also some which hibernate as adults; if you see a small tortoiseshell in early spring it's most likely to be from the previous year. ------------- 'Like so many of you I've got my doubts about how much to contribute to the already rich among us...' Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: February 23 2011 at 06:07
 I never encountered these as a kid. We had a different variety around the office where I used to work. Much prettier. Pink and blue coloring. But yeah when you saw them they were often mating. ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Posted By: TLM170
Date Posted: February 26 2011 at 05:51
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ants are amazing! How everything work and is structured is impressive! it's one of the most fascinating insect in my opinion. and also I like Jimmy le pourri, my pink tarentula!
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Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: February 26 2011 at 05:55
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Posted By: NecronCommander
Date Posted: February 26 2011 at 11:43
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Posted By: LinusW
Date Posted: February 26 2011 at 11:49
Cool |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: February 26 2011 at 13:14
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: February 26 2011 at 13:30
All of them are my favorites, but I think dragonflies are the obvious choice. There is nothing more insane than a bunch of dragonflies dive-bombing other insects, grabbing them in midair, and making a hearty meal out of them. |
Posted By: Syzygy
Date Posted: February 26 2011 at 14:39
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Assorted insect photos here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/9823302@N02/" rel="nofollow - http://www.flickr.com/photos/9823302@N02/
4 stick insect nymphs have hatched from eggs I collected in the last couple of days (the one in the photos was over a year ago and is sadly no longer with us, but her progeny live on), ------------- 'Like so many of you I've got my doubts about how much to contribute to the already rich among us...' Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: March 01 2011 at 08:49
You guys better start liking insects...
apparently due to the problem of cattle-raising pollution (environement issues) and cost issues, it could come down to human getting their protein ingestion by having to eat bugs or bugs-derived foods >>> raising insects seems much more cost efficient and much more evironement-friendly
Indeed a cows sheeps, and others animals drinks way too much potentially drinkable waters and farts wayayayayay too much ozone-killing gasses
Apparently one of the areas where jobs and fortunes are to be plentyful for a while is the development of bug-foods
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Posted By: oliverstoned
Date Posted: March 01 2011 at 08:53
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I do love Dragonfly and dung beetle (fantastic colors)
Besides that, have a look here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthpicturegalleries/8313082/Macro-photographs-of-bugs-eyes-Thomas-Shahan-goes-eyeball-to-eyeball-with-insects.html" rel="nofollow - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthpicturegalleries/8313082/Macro-photographs-of-bugs-eyes-Thomas-Shahan-goes-eyeball-to-eyeball-with-insects.html |
Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: March 01 2011 at 12:03
Butterflies 
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Posted By: oliverstoned
Date Posted: March 02 2011 at 09:07
...while you were shedding a tear on that butterfly, the spider to whom you stole the meal was dying of hunger in atrocious suffering...
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: March 02 2011 at 09:25
naaaahhhhh!!!!.... I smashed its frigging head on the wall ans stomped on its belly a few times!!
 Actually, I'm pretty certain that fat arachnoid had plenty of reserves under its mattress
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Posted By: oliverstoned
Date Posted: March 02 2011 at 09:52
| I recognize here a friend of animals! |