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Topic: Least Favorite InsectPosted By: Slartibartfast
Subject: Least Favorite Insect
Date Posted: February 18 2011 at 05:53
I used to have this Zim guidebook to insect pests... I believe these are all six legged critters.
Some nice ones: Bees, Ladybugs, Praying Mantises...
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Replies: Posted By: npjnpj
Date Posted: February 18 2011 at 06:30
You forgot the whale in that list
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: February 18 2011 at 06:39
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: February 18 2011 at 07:05
I see no votes yet. It's really kind of whatever one is bugging you at the moment kind of thing.
I could have simplified this into bloodsuckers, vegetable/fruit attackers, things that sting you, and things that just fly around and generally annoy you. Still the choice would be hard.
I must admit, I am conflicted about a couple of the varieties. Bees can sting you but they also pollinate and some make good honey. Wasps can also sting you but some varieties lay eggs on horn wormed caterpillars, which eat tomato plants. The larvae then bore into the caterpillar and eat its guts out while its still alive.
BTW, fixed the Weevils misspelling.
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: February 18 2011 at 07:15
Uuuuhmmmmmm.....
That's weevils... not weevles (I had to look it up)
as for the poll:
except for Locusts, Ants and Caterpillars.... I feel like voting for
Z - All of the above
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Posted By: Billy Pilgrim
Date Posted: February 18 2011 at 07:33
Centipedes *shudders*
Posted By: irrelevant
Date Posted: February 18 2011 at 08:07
^ And earwigs. And the occasional millipede.
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Posted By: zravkapt
Date Posted: February 18 2011 at 08:09
Flies are proof that God/Mother Nature/whatever has a sense of humour...a very sick and twisted sense of humour.
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: February 18 2011 at 08:13
Posted By: Prog Geo
Date Posted: February 18 2011 at 08:23
All.I hate insects!I consider them the most useless animals.I want them to disappear from planet Earth right now.F**king parasites!!!
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Posted By: irrelevant
Date Posted: February 18 2011 at 08:25
Snow Dog wrote:
Centipedes and millipedes are not insects.
They're arthropods.
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Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: February 18 2011 at 08:39
I hate all of them.
Posted By: timothy leary
Date Posted: February 18 2011 at 08:40
I voted other for slugs which I think might be insects and here in washington are notorious plant eaters. I do not want them in my veggie patch. Slimy devils.
Posted By: manofmystery
Date Posted: February 18 2011 at 09:07
I know spiders aren't insects but they should all die horrible deaths. As for this list: kill them all
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Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: February 18 2011 at 09:11
I've never had them, but I would not like to have bedbugs.
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Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: February 18 2011 at 10:45
manofmystery wrote:
I know spiders aren't insects but they should all die horrible deaths. As for this list: kill them all
This.
Posted By: The Pessimist
Date Posted: February 18 2011 at 11:44
Flies. They remind me of drunk english girls:
Keep bumping into walls.
Irritating, loud.
You flick them away they just forget what happened and they come flying/walking back again.
They barf on their food.
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: February 18 2011 at 11:52
irrelevant wrote:
Snow Dog wrote:
Centipedes and millipedes are not insects.
They're arthropods.
So are insects.
Centipedes are Chilopoda and millipedes are Diplopoda
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: February 18 2011 at 11:53
harmonium.ro wrote:
manofmystery wrote:
I know spiders aren't insects but they should all die horrible deaths. As for this list: kill them all
This.
Good points about: spiders, they eat insects. flies, mosquitoes absolutely nothing roaches , we have freaking roaches that fly called Palmetto Bugs, worst of both worlds I tell you, Madasgascar hissing cockroaches are somewhat cool but I wouldn't want them around fleas, if you have pet cats and or dogs, they are most certainly Satan's spawn chiggers, lice, bedbugs useless bloodsucking varmints termites, chew up your wood framed houses ants, we have these imported nuisances called fire ants, accidentally step on one of their mounds and you are likely to be in a world of hurt, then there's those little buggers who if they find anything start these trails weevils, haven't been bugged by them in particular gnats, small flies can be just as annoying as the bigger ones, in Georgia we have this gnat line where if you go south they are everywhere, it seems to moving northwards locusts? can we say plague wasps, been snuck attacked by those suckers on three occasions at my home, I terminate them with extreme prejudice
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Posted By: akamaisondufromage
Date Posted: February 18 2011 at 12:00
Yeah Spiders are heroes! Weevils (Wobble but they don't fall down) are wonderful.
Mozies f**king Mozies are the most awful creatures ever invented (Proof there is no God)> THey bite! THey leave a nasty itch when they do. They fly around at niight and make sure you know they are there and keep you awake. Horrid waste of space!
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: February 18 2011 at 12:05
cicadas and crickets: would you guys just shut up already...
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: February 18 2011 at 12:07
Slartibartfast wrote:
cicadas and crickets: would you guys just shut up already...
Posted By: progkidjoel
Date Posted: February 18 2011 at 15:54
harmonium.ro wrote:
manofmystery wrote:
I know spiders aren't insects but they should all die horrible deaths. As for this list: kill them all
This.
Yup.
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Posted By: Vibrationbaby
Date Posted: February 18 2011 at 15:57
Scabies. Not fun to have around. Saw a guy on a survival course with scabies all over his body. Don't know if scabies are classified as insects thought. Nasty though.
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Posted By: Evolutionary Sleeper
Date Posted: February 18 2011 at 16:41
Moths...I hate those little b*****ds @_@
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Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: February 18 2011 at 17:42
I don't know the worsed but the most awesome is Dragonfly, love them and lordylord they can fly in manny different angles
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: February 18 2011 at 17:42
Prog Geo wrote:
All.I hate insects!I consider them the most useless animals.I want them to disappear from planet Earth right now.F**king parasites!!!
honeybees, bumblebees, butterflies and spiders are very useful for life in general
they first three for polinating purposes, the latter for getting rid of a lot of other insects
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Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: February 18 2011 at 17:43
arent the Camel song Arubaluba about spiders
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: February 18 2011 at 19:03
Dragonflies are awesome.
What's with all this hating on our eight legged friends? Garden spiders, tarantulas, and jumping spiders are pretty cool.
Webs are amazing
That guy reminds me of Bart Simpson.
Also spider relative daddy long legs are interesting:
Which reminds me of cool aquatic insects: Water boatmen
Water striders:
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Posted By: DisgruntledPorcupine
Date Posted: February 18 2011 at 23:09
Being Canadian, it's them mosquitoes that are annoying. Oh how I'm glad I don't live in Winnipeg.
Posted By: progkidjoel
Date Posted: February 18 2011 at 23:26
If you like spiders, http://www.cairns.com.au/article/2008/10/23/11601_local-news.html" rel="nofollow - you should definitely come to Australia.
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Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: February 18 2011 at 23:36
f**kin' chiggers. Those things are like satan in crawly form
runner up is weevils, and then mosquitoes
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: February 19 2011 at 00:46
progkidjoel wrote:
harmonium.ro wrote:
manofmystery wrote:
I know spiders aren't insects but they should all die horrible deaths. As for this list: kill them all
This.
Yup.
Booo! I'm with the spider people-- it's speculated the air would fill with flying insects in a matter of weeks if it weren't for spiders and their webs
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: February 19 2011 at 02:55
progkidjoel wrote:
If you like spiders, http://www.cairns.com.au/article/2008/10/23/11601_local-news.html" rel="nofollow - you should definitely come to Australia.
haven't checked your link, but I remember seeing this Aussie getting bitten by a small spider (nothing to do wityh Tarentulas or things like that) on a finger and and full five years later, his full body is rotting slowly and gadually eaten away by this unstoppable process. even a preventive amputation didn't work
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Posted By: NecronCommander
Date Posted: February 19 2011 at 03:38
I hate wasps. I could post that one picture that got famous this year about them but it's profane.
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Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: February 19 2011 at 03:52
Afro/american Killer bees are the most frightning creature on earth, happily they are on a continental distance away, and an Ocean wide border, so stay where you are honey-making murderours.
these are cool looking though
this one is yber cool and dangerous (for other insects),
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Posted By: Billy Pilgrim
Date Posted: February 19 2011 at 03:54
Radroaches are the worst.
Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: February 19 2011 at 03:58
I like insects that looks like they are taken out of a Science fiction movie, that are actually livving breathing creatures on earth, so cool, but Im glad humans are as "big" as they are, I would not like to share the size of Thumbaline, would be a living horror show
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Posted By: boo boo
Date Posted: February 19 2011 at 04:20
I hate most of these, but don't diss the Ants. Ants are motherf**king awesome, they're like the little people of the insect world.
And to the guy who says insects are useless, you fail biology forever. Unless you don't consider population control of smaller pests, being an important part of many ecosystems or polination to be that useful.
Spiders are f**king badass, they're cool looking, and they keep a lot of other critters in line.
And bees, we'd be pretty f**ked without those guys.
Posted By: clarke2001
Date Posted: February 19 2011 at 10:06
I love insects with shiny, often metallic green/blueish chitinous exoskeleton. I love fireflies in night. And I love butterflies, but hate moths eating my pullovers. I love caterpillars too, but won't touch them.
I hate/fear/disgust spiders in any size, shape or form - but they're not insects. I'm not disgusted by spider's cousins - scorpions or ticks - and have no problem touching them. If I catch a tick (if a tick catches me, to be precise), I'll pull the bloodsucker out with my nails.
I don't mind weevils, ants, not even cockroaches - they're mild annoyance when their habitat is visibly interacting with mine, but I won't scream in horror and climb on my seat like my girlfriend.
Of all locusts, crickets are the most common here: it's impossible to imagine an absolute silence during the summer. They're just a piece of environment, like pebbles and grass blades.
I don't mind dark, tube-like millipedes with hundreds of pulsating little legs - I can grab one by hand, they're cute - but house centipedes are freaking me out - they run so fast!!
Posted By: toroddfuglesteg
Date Posted: February 19 2011 at 10:20
Scottish Midges. The news that three billion of them had died last winter due to sub zero weather was met with wild celebrations here in Scotland. Nuff said.
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: February 19 2011 at 10:22
Fireflies (aka lightning bugs) are really strange critters. That whole tail phosphorescence thing is really strange. Couldn't find a good close up night pic but here's a bunch in action:
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Posted By: hobocamp
Date Posted: February 19 2011 at 10:24
No one voted roaches? Hard to think of anything beneficial about 'em. But life sciences aren't my strong suit.
Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: February 19 2011 at 12:41
Millipeds and Centipeds totaly kicks ass,
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: February 19 2011 at 13:08
Also not technically an insect, the pillbug:
Touch one and they curl up into a ball.
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Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: February 19 2011 at 13:15
Slartibartfast wrote:
Also not technically an insect, the pillbug:
I think the equivalent here is the sowbeetle
we get so many of those in the fall
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: February 19 2011 at 13:17
10 Cool Facts About Pillbugs
By http://insects.about.com/bio/Debbie-Hadley-35908.htm" rel="nofollow - Debbie Hadley , About.com Guide
Though we call them bugs, pillbugs are really crustaceans like shrimp and crabs.
Photo: Joseph Berger, Bugwood.org
A pillbug goes by many names -– roly poly, wood louse, armadillo bug,
potato bug – but whatever you call it, it's a fascinating creature.
These ten facts about pillbugs will give you a new respect for the tiny
tank living beneath your flower pots.
1. Pillbugs are crustaceans, not insects. Though they're
often associated with insects and are referred to as "bugs," pillbugs
actually belong to the subphylum Crustacea. They're much more closely
related to shrimp and crayfish than to any kind of insect.
2. Pillbugs breathe through gills. Like their marine
cousins, terrestrial pillbugs use gill-like structures to exchange
gases. They require moist environments to breathe, but cannot survive
being submerged in water.
3. A juvenile pillbug molts in two sections. Like all
arthropods, pillbugs grow by molting a hard exoskeleton. But pillbugs
don't shed their cuticle all at once. First, the back half of its
exoskeleton splits away and slides off. A few days later, the pillbug
sheds the front section. If you find a pillbug that's gray or brown on
one end, and pink on the other, it's in the middle of molting.
4. Pillbug mothers carry their eggs in a pouch. Like crabs
and other crustaceans, pillbugs tote their eggs around with them.
Overlapping thoracic plates form a special pouch, called a marsupium, on
the pillbug's underside. Upon hatching, the tiny juvenile pillbugs
remain in the pouch for several days before leaving to explore the world
on their own.
5. Pillbugs don't urinate. Most animals must convert their
wastes, which are high in ammonia, into urea before it can be excreted
from the body. But pillbugs have an amazing ability to tolerate ammonia
gas, which they can pass directly through their exoskeleton. So, there's
no need for pillbugs to urinate.
6. A pillbug can drink with its anus. Though pillbugs do
drink the old-fashioned way – with their mouthparts – they can also take
in water through their rear ends. Special tube-shaped structures called
uropods can wick water up when needed.
7. Pillbugs curl into tight balls when threatened. Most
kids have poked a pillbug to watch it roll up into a tight ball. In
fact, many people call them roly polies for just this reason. Its
ability to curl up distinguishes the pillbug from another close
relative, the sowbug.
8. Pillbugs eat their own poop. Yes indeed, pillbugs munch
on lots of feces, including their own. Each time a pillbug poops, it
loses a little copper, an essential element it needs to live. In order
to recycle this precious resource, the pillbug will consume its own
poop, a practice known as coprography.
9. Sick pillbugs turn bright blue. Like other animals,
pillbugs can contract viral infections. If you find a pillbug that looks
bright blue or purple, it's a sign of an iridovirus. Reflected light
from the virus causes the cyan color.
10. A pillbug's blood is blue. Many crustaceans, pillbugs
included, have hemocyanin in their blood. Unlike hemoglobin, which
contains iron, hemocyanin contains copper ions. When oxygenated, pillbug
blood appears blue.
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Posted By: June
Date Posted: February 19 2011 at 16:48
I work with kids. Lice it is.
Posted By: Tuzvihar
Date Posted: February 19 2011 at 16:59
Roaches are nice and tasty.
The fish I mean.
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Posted By: NecronCommander
Date Posted: February 19 2011 at 23:04
aginor wrote:
Millipeds and Centipeds totaly kicks ass,
Millipedes are cool (if I'm not mistaken that's an African giant millipede, I've handled one before at a museum and it's such a fascinating creature), but centipedes are vicious and nasty insects. They're hostile and venomous.
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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: February 20 2011 at 00:26
Slartibartfast wrote:
6. A pillbug can drink with its anus.
I was gonna make a sarcastic remark about having new respect for pillbugs, but this really is impressive.
Posted By: let prog reign
Date Posted: February 20 2011 at 11:53
By far mosquitoes are the most annoying on this list. oh but you forgot this tiny critter http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceratopogonidae" rel="nofollow - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceratopogonidae
A little something that we call down here no-see-ems
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Posted By: The Truth
Date Posted: February 20 2011 at 12:04
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: February 20 2011 at 13:36
Wasps, good points - make interesting nests - mud tubes, paper globes... besides that and planting larvae on tomato eating caterpillars, pretty much evil creatures.
Posted By: crimhead
Date Posted: February 20 2011 at 14:14
manofmystery wrote:
I know spiders aren't insects but they should all die horrible deaths. As for this list: kill them all
Ugh, spiders. Agreed.
Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: February 20 2011 at 14:16
Wasps in August early September are creatures of Hell and if they bye chance happens to get cought in your bed room, and that angry zumming sound gets more and more and more and more and MORE....... intence, but I don't have the heart to kill it so I trye to gide it out, but on occations I can go on Wasp rampage and curl a magazine and go on Wasp hunt. and hit it hard and sound...
I can be brootal, byt I feel sorry for the wasp
I HAVE HUGE RESPECT FOR ALL LIVING CREATURES ON EARTH, humans who destroy animal lifegrounds on earth should really not deside the fate of other creatures, if it takes to be lesser human to understand other creatures wellbeing then I happely step down form my high horse and call myself a lesser human, but to a larger extent an animal... i have taken my stand
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: February 20 2011 at 14:45
Really weird that a critter that will eat your house to pieces will build an interesting structure :
Ah ha ha, take that you little bugger:
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Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: February 20 2011 at 14:47
looks like a giant penis , pervs those thermites wonder were they got the inspiration from.
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Posted By: NecronCommander
Date Posted: February 20 2011 at 15:54
aginor wrote:
looks like a giant penis , pervs those thermites wonder were they got the inspiration from.
They presumably took their inspirations from the razor clam:
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Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: February 20 2011 at 16:14
not an insect but when the forset flour is covered with millions of baby toads well, lets say thier is few times I scream like a girl, but every midsummer and late summer I physicly cant go into the forest, I belive I have cought a phobie for baby toads when their is more then a million of them at the same time.
like this makes my skin crawl I feel sick only by watcing the youtube video
one word
DISCUSTING
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Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: February 20 2011 at 16:16
toads are cool
Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: February 20 2011 at 16:18
big toads are cool, baby toads CAN GO TO HELL
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Posted By: akamaisondufromage
Date Posted: February 20 2011 at 16:38
Well if were getting on to toads. You will have seen Cane Toads an unatural history (Its hysterical)
On you tube in its entirety
But
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Posted By: irrelevant
Date Posted: February 20 2011 at 23:04
Cane toads are the creatures that actually have no purpose.
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: February 21 2011 at 00:17
I love toads, but hate skeeters.
Posted By: KoS
Date Posted: February 21 2011 at 01:05
Posted By: Billy Pilgrim
Date Posted: February 21 2011 at 03:16
I've heard of this one toad that is a necrophiliac... with other species. Pretty disgusting, for got what it was called though.
Posted By: irrelevant
Date Posted: February 21 2011 at 03:23
Billy Pilgrim wrote:
I've heard of this one toad that is a necrophiliac... with other species. Pretty disgusting, for got what it was called though.
Bufo Mortrapus
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Posted By: The Pessimist
Date Posted: February 21 2011 at 05:04
irrelevant wrote:
Billy Pilgrim wrote:
I've heard of this one toad that is a necrophiliac... with other species. Pretty disgusting, for got what it was called though.
Bufo Mortrapus
Aren't Mallard ducks supposed to be a massive fan of Homosexual Necrophilia?
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Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: February 21 2011 at 05:08
Wasps. I disliked them since my early childhood.
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Posted By: boo boo
Date Posted: February 21 2011 at 09:27
I never got the big deal about spiders, at least non poisonous ones. I think spiders are cool, and no, not just because I grew up on Spiderman.
I find all living creatures to be fascinating in their own way.
But yeah Cockroaches, I hate those little b*stards. They have never physically hurt me but I just think they're disgusting.
Wasps on the other hand are the raging douchebags of the insect world. They're not like mosquitos or fleas, they don't come after you because they need anything from you. They're just like "Yeah motherf*cker I'm gonna sting the sh*t out of you just because I can bitch, I'm a motherf*ckin wasp."
Posted By: refugee
Date Posted: February 21 2011 at 10:57
You left out the horse-fly. Their bite is nearly as painful as a wasp’s, and they go after you because they want your blood, which means they are harder to avoid than wasps.
I’ve been bitten quite a few times, but luckily I never got the Lyme disease. What is the purpose of these critters anyway? As far as I can see, the only bird that eats them is the Guineafowl, and it’s not exactly common outside Africa (and to be honest, I don’t know if it’s very common in Africa either).
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Posted By: Lark the Starless
Date Posted: February 21 2011 at 12:25
I;d say roaches...nasty devils.
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Posted By: caretaker
Date Posted: February 21 2011 at 13:25
Gotta be the Louisiana state bird. The mosquito. Dishonorable mention to silverfish.
Posted By: Formentera Lady
Date Posted: February 21 2011 at 14:54
What are mosquitos good for? Off with their heads!
Posted By: Conor Fynes
Date Posted: February 21 2011 at 15:27
I don't like anything that can sting, or bite me.
Posted By: irrelevant
Date Posted: February 22 2011 at 04:52
The Pessimist wrote:
irrelevant wrote:
Billy Pilgrim wrote:
I've heard of this one toad that is a necrophiliac... with other species. Pretty disgusting, for got what it was called though.
Bufo Mortrapus
Aren't Mallard ducks supposed to be a massive fan of Homosexual Necrophilia?
I don't know why you quoted me. I made the Mortrapus thing up.
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Posted By: boo boo
Date Posted: February 22 2011 at 11:19
While Termites are a pest, they also amaze me with those massive mounds they create. They can reach as high as 30 feet, imagine how high that is from a termite's perspective. When you compare the size of it in preportion to the insects, it's far taller than our structures are in preportion to us.
Posted By: Rasvamakkara
Date Posted: February 22 2011 at 13:44
Roaches. I haven't had any problems opening up other animals, but I didn't even want to touch the goddamn roach we had to dissect on one course. The b*****ds are full of fat, which makes it even more fun. They also smell horrible. Mosquitos are a close second
Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: February 22 2011 at 14:04
boo boo wrote:
While Termites are a pest, they also amaze me with those massive mounds they create. They can reach as high as 30 feet, imagine how high that is from a termite's perspective. When you compare the size of it in preportion to the insects, it's far taller than our structures are in preportion to us.
Termites,Cockroaches and Mantis are related.
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Posted By: boo boo
Date Posted: February 22 2011 at 15:29
I knew that.
Alec Baldwin is also related to Stephen Baldwin, doesn't mean I have to like both.
Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: February 22 2011 at 16:56
All of them deserve to live.
They are the primary source of food of birds and bats and we all love birds and many love bats. Many small primates also live basically on arthropods (insects included) and probably the primates (we included) evolved from insectivorae mammals.
Insects provide a high pollination percentage of those beautiful trees and plants and flowers and without them the planet would be worse than it is with rotten woods, animal carcasses and excrements everywhere.
BTW, I hate roaches!
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Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: February 22 2011 at 17:02
I am glad I leave nowhere near any of these jerks.
Posted By: Formentera Lady
Date Posted: February 22 2011 at 17:51
Woah... anyone seen the film Phase IV? The only film so far, from which I got nightmares. (Apart from that, I think ants are useful animals, the cleansing service of nature.)
Posted By: boo boo
Date Posted: February 22 2011 at 21:12
Yeah, all creatures serve their purpose. Even the ones I don't want to be around.
I watched that wild life documentary narrated by Oprah called Life (which was very good actually) and there was a thing about this parasitic fungus that infects insects and sprouts through their brains. It was some serious David Cronenberg sh*t. But it serves it's purpose in keeping certain species from overpopulating.
Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: February 22 2011 at 21:14
I don't care if spiders are not insects. They deserve more hate than than any other invertebrate.
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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: February 22 2011 at 21:36
they deserve more thanks, actually, for keeping the air free of bug infestations
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: February 28 2011 at 20:55
File under fun with ants: if you run across a trail of those little bugger species and drag your finger perpendicular across the trail they lose their scent of the trail and go "aaaaaggghhh!!!! where the hell am I going???" and will run about all confused. Not too mean, I think they eventually work it out.
So anyone want to confess to using a magnifying glass to sunburn one? I take the fifth. I actually had more fun using it to focus the sun to burn interesting patterns in dried leaves.
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: May 15 2011 at 14:46
Well, speaking of termites, I got a couple of boxes of metal shelving units and when I got back home, one of the box ends was infested with termites.
Anyway I sprayed them all to hell with bug spray and fortunately it was discovered before the box was moved into the house. The box is going straight to the curb. Damn good thing they can't eat metal.
The only thing I'm still pondering was did they make a journey over on a container ship or were the shelves returned by a customer and that's where they came from?
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Posted By: Proletariat
Date Posted: May 15 2011 at 15:11
Mosquitos just above Asian Beatles (look like lady bugs but bite and also ruined the natural ecosystem when imported into my area!
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: May 15 2011 at 15:39
Proletariat wrote:
Mosquitos just above Asian Beatles (look like lady bugs but bite and also ruined the natural ecosystem when imported into my area!
It's almost funny how people have managed to import creatures out of their natural habitats and they become pests without their natural predators. Cane toads any of you Aussies?
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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: May 15 2011 at 17:11
what about those potato bugs that don't roll up into a ball .. it's like 'oh great, you can't even do that, you're just an ugly gray bug'
Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: May 15 2011 at 18:12
bug bunny
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Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: May 15 2011 at 19:06
Cockroaches, definitely. Nasty, filthy, uneradicable things. I don't mind spiders because they eat flies and mosquitos. But I haven't had a single insect in my house for the past three years because my cat mercilessly hunts them all down.
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Posted By: Andy Webb
Date Posted: May 15 2011 at 19:35
The Dark Elf wrote:
Cockroaches, definitely. Nasty, filthy, uneradicable things. I don't mind spiders because they eat flies and mosquitos.
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Posted By: Andy Webb
Date Posted: May 15 2011 at 19:38
Tapfret wrote:
I am glad I leave nowhere near any of these jerks.
That's frightening. The ants near me are so docile and innocent.
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Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: May 15 2011 at 20:17
Andyman1125 wrote:
That's frightening. The ants near me are so docile and innocent.
Just make sure your local ants don't watch that documentary.
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