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The only good bug is a dead bug!(not a starship troopers thread)
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Ever seen a close up of a harvestman's mouth? It's like some sci-fi shit and creeped me the hell out
they're like big creepy flying whispy spiders
with 6 legs.
I think daddy long legs are arachnids, but not spiders, right? They're basically giant mites, yea?
Green religious bastard kept coming for me.
BATS!
You kidding me? they can't even fly properly they just float ominously towards you and are a bitch to catch because their legs don't fit inside anything but a pint glass!
Me and my mom are cruising up from Ventura, CA to Southern Oregon (scoping out where we'd later move to). We're about 1/2 way there, in the middle of the central valley ... somewhere below Sacramento and the grapevine. Food time: we pull of the first exit with a gas station and a McDonalds. I do believe that was all. We first notice something's wrong when the few outside benches and tables look filthy. Like black stuff all around the underside. Did I mention it was something-over-100 degrees out? No time to investigate grungy tables as we haul ass across spontaneously-igniting asphalt. Once we get inside, a metric-ton of shit hits a metric shit-ton of fans. There are crickets EVERYWHERE. For this is their air-conditioned mecca. There temperature-controlled Eden. They've packed themselves in under every table, all along the sides of the counter, every corner and floorboard on the bottom of every wall. EVERYWHERE. My mom, using her better judgement, tells me to use the bathroom and we'll just get a water to go. But no, I am 9, I am not afraid of the cricket menace. I wants me a chocolate shake. 5 minutes later, I get said shake, and we're out the door. Also, the black mess under the tables? More insect armies. And as if things couldn't get worse, as I start to stir the milkshake (because I have horrible luck getting not-mixed choco shakes at McDs), I feel a crunch. Then two. I don't even look inside, just chuck the shake in the trash.
I can never remove the images of the cricked invasion out of my head.
TL;DR version: Was a kid, stopped at McDonalds in middle of no-where, all of a sudden, crickets. Thousands of them.
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it depends, actually!
there are actually about three different things that people call Daddy Long-Legs
Crane Flies (not spiders), Harvestmen (not spiders), and the Cellar Spider (spiders)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daddy_longlegs
who the hell calls a crane fly a daddy long legs
I have never come across that in all my years
...granted, in all my years I've just referred to crane flies as "the ugliest bug I've ever seen", or the "uglybug", and nobody has ever had a problem deducing what I'm talking about
turns out what I always called Daddy Long-Legs were in fact "Harvestmen"
it all comes full circle
goddammit
The look like giant mosquitos to me.
giant, friendly mosquitos. I'll have crane flies and super long legged super chill spiders, side by side, right outside my door, because a dryer vent is located right above it and to the left. They take messages for me when I am not in.
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
I had no idea
this forum is full of blubbery scared little vaginae
A spider made a web in our kitchen window, ie, between the screen and the glass. I saw it and was going to kill it, then changed my mind and decided to let him just starve to death wondering why no bugs ever got caught in the web.
Dumb fucking spider.
No man should have that kind of power.(Twitter)
otherwise just solid, grade A creatures
Says the girl scared of fire
God I love when the mantises ... manti ... *whatever* come out in summer. I work in a nursery, so eventually I will find one on most sunny days. And it's fun to sit it on my shoulder, where it'll sit there like it was trained while I walk around and work and talk to customers and crap. Kids love it. Many moms have jumped when they finally realized what it was. Also:
Orchid Mantis.
Nature's little ninjas. IN PINK.
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No man should have that kind of power.(Twitter)
WHERE IS THE REST OF THE SKINK
I mean yes, maybe it detached its tail and ran off... or maybe it ate the whole thing. Slowly. Patiently. Creepily.
I had an apartment in college that had a box elder bug infestation. Not on the inside (okay, less on the inside) but the south wall, where my door was, was completely covered in them for months. It was disgusting. And they creep under door jams and window frames and die there, which is also disgusting. But even worse than that was the apartment I moved into after that lease expired. Two of my friends and I spent the day trucking our boxes around the block from our old places to our new place (me using a Radio Flyer because I didn't own a car). When we're finished moving but not unpacked at all, we break out the wine bottles and call it a day. So we're drinking, and we're drinking, and when you consume liquid it turns out eventually you need to pee.
Into the bathroom I go. When I reach for the toilet paper roll something falls to the ground from behind it, but whatever. I finish my business, turn around to flush, and whammo, there is a giant spider perched on the back of the toilet seat, right behind where my head was five seconds earlier. I'm grossed out, but I whack at it with a toilet brush. It drops off the toilet to the floor, and scuttles behind it, at which point I see its friendly sibling also under the toilet, probably shaking off the concussion it got when it fell off the TP. I run out to grab some Raid. Meanwhile my roommate, unwarned, goes into the bathroom and comes flying out as I return empty-handed, screeching about spiders on the toilet seat itself. I ended up cornering all three and spraying them to death with Clorox countertop cleaner.
I don't know what they were, but they were about 3/4" big and we had an outdoor infestation of them at that house as well... although I never saw them near the toilet again.
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given the choice between a spider walking up my arm and a spider ON FIRE walking up my arm
I will gladly gladly choose the former
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
I bet they're not resistant to a boot in the face
My dumbass aunt insists that if you dislike an animal it means that, deep in your heart, you're scared of it
Well I don't know about you but that means I am utterly terrified of her kitten that shits all over the place and is a huge dick to her older cat
I'm phobic of masks and mannequins... but not really any animals; if it tries to eat me - "hey i'm bigger than you. STOMP!"
those are awesome
I hate bugs but spiders are mostly okay. They are like our allies in the war against every more irritating insect
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
I read that twice and was really confused.
This!
Also, spiders annoy me, but I am not particularly afraid of them. My friend, however, gets freaked out by spiders like crazy, although he doesn't mind other critters much.
I should get a pet spider on my ranger alt, bust it out at random sometime to freak him out:D
I fish with those!
Critical Failures - Havenhold Campaign • August St. Cloud (Human Ranger)