This is the spider thread, no there can't be baby spiders in it thats an urban legend

ArbitraryDescriptor

Macera wrote: »

where I live, crane flies are called mosquito eaters, though they don't actually eat mosquitoes

I always thought it was because their larvae ate mosquito larvae, so I googled it.

Nope.

Turns out they're fucking worthless, unless you hate nectar. Or grass.

Dragonflies though. That's a pretty cool fly. They eat the fuck out of mosquitos.

ultimakay

Toldo wrote: »

Hello.

I suffer from arachnophobia, as probably every other poster in this thread. This is mostly because of the barn funnel weaver, which terrorized my basement and childhood. According to that Wikipedia entry, the males retreat into houses during the fall and wander around, generally scaring the hell out of me.

I would flip the fuck out if I say that spider. I only see tiny spiders like the size of a quarter, and I still kill them.

AMP'd

Samir Duran Duran wrote: »

Dichotomy wrote: »

but maggots are beneficial to the healing process

Not the flesh-eating ones.

no, definitely the flesh-eating ones

we just use the ones that don't eat the flesh that isn't decomposing

Samir Duran Duran

AMP'd wrote: »

Samir Duran Duran wrote: »

Dichotomy wrote: »

but maggots are beneficial to the healing process

Not the flesh-eating ones.

no, definitely the flesh-eating ones

we just use the ones that don't eat the flesh that isn't decomposing

Not the jerk ones then, whatever.

Macera

Some flies don't

Samir Duran Duran

Ok first bug in the thread where I have absolutely zero clue what it it.

I am a shamed armchair entomologist.

Macera

It's a snowfly

Adults seem to actively seek out the coldest place they can find and drink water by pressing their proboscis against the snow (Marchand, 1917), but are not known to feed. Adult snow flies live for up to two months. They can walk at a speed of about 1,30 m per minute, and at least males have been observed to leap, without being provoked (Schrock, 1992)