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The thread for things with more/less than two legs (NSF ento/arachno/ophidiophobes)

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    Kevin CristKevin Crist I make the devil hit his knees and say the 'our father'Registered User regular
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    tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    That’s some Fortitude level shit and I am both awed and scared.

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    JedocJedoc In the scuppers with the staggers and jagsRegistered User regular
    So when Adam had to name all the animals, do you think God started with the real fluffy ones and worked his way down to the Nightmare Eyeball Disco Worm?

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    GvzbgulGvzbgul Registered User regular
    In the original Adamic language it was known as the "AHHH!!!!"

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    KaplarKaplar On Google MapsRegistered User regular
    Gvzbgul wrote: »
    In the original Adamic language it was known as the "AHHH!!!! REAL MONSTERS!"

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    webguy20webguy20 I spend too much time on the Internet Registered User regular
    Trippy. We have a thing around here the lumber jacks call a stump fucker. It's a kind of wasp that lays it's eggs using a super long ovipositor that looks like a stinger, it can be inches long.

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    KaplarKaplar On Google MapsRegistered User regular
    webguy20 wrote: »
    Trippy. We have a thing around here the lumber jacks call a stump fucker. It's a kind of wasp that lays it's eggs using a super long ovipositor that looks like a stinger, it can be inches long.

    In stumps or in other creatures?

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    PinfeldorfPinfeldorf Yeah ZestRegistered User regular
    I learned about deerflies one summer up at Lake Tahoe.

    Do not learn about deerflies first hand, Bug Thread.

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    see317see317 Registered User regular
    Kaplar wrote: »
    webguy20 wrote: »
    Trippy. We have a thing around here the lumber jacks call a stump fucker. It's a kind of wasp that lays it's eggs using a super long ovipositor that looks like a stinger, it can be inches long.

    In stumps or in other creatures?

    Mostly in stumps on other creatures, generally lost limbs.
    It's a spectacularly well adapted life cycle for the lumber industry.

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    zekebeauzekebeau Registered User regular
    see317 wrote: »
    Kaplar wrote: »
    webguy20 wrote: »
    Trippy. We have a thing around here the lumber jacks call a stump fucker. It's a kind of wasp that lays it's eggs using a super long ovipositor that looks like a stinger, it can be inches long.

    In stumps or in other creatures?

    Mostly in stumps on other creatures, generally lost limbs.
    It's a spectacularly well adapted life cycle for the lumber industry.

    Since it's a wasp, I couldn't tell if the above was a joke, so I looked it up.

    Stump wasps lay eggs in wood, not bloody stumps of lumberjacks. Even nature has limits.

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    Metzger MeisterMetzger Meister It Gets Worse before it gets any better.Registered User regular
    I believe I saw a big giant California root borer beetle on the side of my dad's house but you get no pictures this time because I'm a coward and it's in the stairwell outside like right at eyeball height and to take a picture I'd have to literally be like six inches from it so nope nope nope.

    Bugs are neat but the big ones stress me out

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    FiendishrabbitFiendishrabbit Registered User regular
    If you want to see a "stump fucker wasp" in action it' real name is the Ichneumon wasp (and there are a couple of different variants that lay their eggs inside wood boring larvae).
    Spoilered for gratuitous penetration of wood and larvae

    "The western world sips from a poisonous cocktail: Polarisation, populism, protectionism and post-truth"
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    DisruptedCapitalistDisruptedCapitalist I swear! Registered User regular
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    Found these two munching on my dill. Pretty sure they are black swallowtails. Pretty cute. I hope they make their cocoons there.

    The caterpillars are gone. I suspect a bird ate them since the bird feeder is right nearby. Now I has a sad.

    "Simple, real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time." -Mustrum Ridcully in Terry Pratchett's Hogfather p. 142 (HarperPrism 1996)
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    SirToastySirToasty Registered User regular
    edited August 2019
    Yeah pretty safe to say I'm not gonna go messing with one of those.

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    DepressperadoDepressperado I just wanted to see you laughing in the pizza rainRegistered User regular
    edited August 2019
    I have a screened in porch and last night a big ass fuckin' moth flew into the screen and fell to the ground, and then it got flyin' and landed on my screen door like, "yo, gonna let me at that light or what?"

    it was big and all whiteish, grayish? and its body was a little shorter than my thumb

    Depressperado on
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    see317see317 Registered User regular
    I have a screened in porch and last night a big ass fuckin' moth flew into the screen and fell to the ground, and then it got flyin' and landed on my screen door like, "yo, gonna let me at that light or what?"

    it was big and all whiteish, grayish? and its body was a little shorter than my thumb
    The important thing though...

    Did you let it at the lamp?

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    DepressperadoDepressperado I just wanted to see you laughing in the pizza rainRegistered User regular
    see317 wrote: »
    I have a screened in porch and last night a big ass fuckin' moth flew into the screen and fell to the ground, and then it got flyin' and landed on my screen door like, "yo, gonna let me at that light or what?"

    it was big and all whiteish, grayish? and its body was a little shorter than my thumb
    The important thing though...

    Did you let it at the lamp?

    no I just kinda stared at it, I had never seen a Mothra before

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    KetarKetar Come on upstairs we're having a partyRegistered User regular
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    Brovid HasselsmofBrovid Hasselsmof [Growling historic on the fury road] Registered User regular
    On my walk the other day I saw a snek. We only have 2 kinds of snek in this country and they're not easily seen so I was very excited.

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    valhalla130valhalla130 13 Dark Shield Perceives the GodsRegistered User regular
    The UK? What kinds of snakes are there?

    I wish we only had two kinds here in the Southeastern US. Between copperheads, timbler rattlesnakes, cottonmouths, coral snakes, and hundreds of nonvenomous snakes, we have too many to keep track of.

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    Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Water moccasins are the worst because all our water around here is poop colored and opaque

    Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
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    TheStigTheStig Registered User regular
    Dirtyboy wrote: »

    This is why people don't trust scientists.

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    PinfeldorfPinfeldorf Yeah ZestRegistered User regular
    I once had someone tell me not to be afraid of wasps.

    Fuck that guy!

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    Brovid HasselsmofBrovid Hasselsmof [Growling historic on the fury road] Registered User regular
    The UK? What kinds of snakes are there?

    I wish we only had two kinds here in the Southeastern US. Between copperheads, timbler rattlesnakes, cottonmouths, coral snakes, and hundreds of nonvenomous snakes, we have too many to keep track of.

    I was wrong, apparently we actually have 4 species, but two of them were relatively recently recognised. Adder, grass snake, barred grass snake, and smooth snake. Adder is the only venomous one.

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    valhalla130valhalla130 13 Dark Shield Perceives the GodsRegistered User regular
    The UK? What kinds of snakes are there?

    I wish we only had two kinds here in the Southeastern US. Between copperheads, timbler rattlesnakes, cottonmouths, coral snakes, and hundreds of nonvenomous snakes, we have too many to keep track of.

    I was wrong, apparently we actually have 4 species, but two of them were relatively recently recognised. Adder, grass snake, barred grass snake, and smooth snake. Adder is the only venomous one.

    So its looking like Ireland is still my only place to get away from snakes then. Gotcha.

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    see317see317 Registered User regular
    The UK? What kinds of snakes are there?

    I wish we only had two kinds here in the Southeastern US. Between copperheads, timbler rattlesnakes, cottonmouths, coral snakes, and hundreds of nonvenomous snakes, we have too many to keep track of.

    I was wrong, apparently we actually have 4 species, but two of them were relatively recently recognised. Adder, grass snake, barred grass snake, and smooth snake. Adder is the only venomous one.

    So its looking like Ireland is still my only place to get away from snakes then. Gotcha.

    Sure, but how are you going to get there? The chances of you booking the same flight as Samuel L. Jackson would seem to be vanishingly small.

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    tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    I cannot support this anti-snake agenda.

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    DirtyboyDirtyboy Registered User regular
    edited September 2019
    The UK? What kinds of snakes are there?

    I wish we only had two kinds here in the Southeastern US. Between copperheads, timbler rattlesnakes, cottonmouths, coral snakes, and hundreds of nonvenomous snakes, we have too many to keep track of.

    I was wrong, apparently we actually have 4 species, but two of them were relatively recently recognised. Adder, grass snake, barred grass snake, and smooth snake. Adder is the only venomous one.

    So its looking like Ireland is still my only place to get away from snakes then. Gotcha.

    I don't think New Zealand has any.
    Much like Hawaii, New Zealand is an island grouping devoid of snakes. It also has no deadly spiders, killer jellyfish, or other creepy crawlies that are likely to kill you. Australia is home to all of those.

    Dirtyboy on
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    GvzbgulGvzbgul Registered User regular
    We do get sea snakes tho. They only visit but you can see them around Auckland from time to time and they're considered native. They do have venom but they tend to hide from humans.

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    Brovid HasselsmofBrovid Hasselsmof [Growling historic on the fury road] Registered User regular
    Also the orks

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    GvzbgulGvzbgul Registered User regular
    Orks are only native to Orkland, so you're ok if you're elsewhere in the country. We occasionally see some orklanders visit but we shoo them back to where they came from once we find out.

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    PinfeldorfPinfeldorf Yeah ZestRegistered User regular
    I assume Orkland is pronounced Auckland?

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    GvzbgulGvzbgul Registered User regular
    Yes. They are near identical in pronunciation.

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    Donovan PuppyfuckerDonovan Puppyfucker A dagger in the dark is worth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered User regular
    Dirtyboy wrote: »
    The UK? What kinds of snakes are there?

    I wish we only had two kinds here in the Southeastern US. Between copperheads, timbler rattlesnakes, cottonmouths, coral snakes, and hundreds of nonvenomous snakes, we have too many to keep track of.

    I was wrong, apparently we actually have 4 species, but two of them were relatively recently recognised. Adder, grass snake, barred grass snake, and smooth snake. Adder is the only venomous one.

    So its looking like Ireland is still my only place to get away from snakes then. Gotcha.

    I don't think New Zealand has any.
    Much like Hawaii, New Zealand is an island grouping devoid of snakes. It also has no deadly spiders, killer jellyfish, or other creepy crawlies that are likely to kill you. Australia is home to all of those.

    Now, you might think that the distinct lack of deadly creatures means that Kiwis are somewhat "softer" than Aussies, after all THEY don't have to battle creepy crawlies with fatal bites just to take a dump.

    You'd be wrong.

    New Zealand doesn't have all the horrible venomous bastard creatures because all the horrible venomous bastard creatures fled over the Tasman Sea to Australia to get escape the Kiwis...

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    see317see317 Registered User regular
    Dirtyboy wrote: »
    The UK? What kinds of snakes are there?

    I wish we only had two kinds here in the Southeastern US. Between copperheads, timbler rattlesnakes, cottonmouths, coral snakes, and hundreds of nonvenomous snakes, we have too many to keep track of.

    I was wrong, apparently we actually have 4 species, but two of them were relatively recently recognised. Adder, grass snake, barred grass snake, and smooth snake. Adder is the only venomous one.

    So its looking like Ireland is still my only place to get away from snakes then. Gotcha.

    I don't think New Zealand has any.
    Much like Hawaii, New Zealand is an island grouping devoid of snakes. It also has no deadly spiders, killer jellyfish, or other creepy crawlies that are likely to kill you. Australia is home to all of those.

    Now, you might think that the distinct lack of deadly creatures means that Kiwis are somewhat "softer" than Aussies, after all THEY don't have to battle creepy crawlies with fatal bites just to take a dump.

    You'd be wrong.

    New Zealand doesn't have all the horrible venomous bastard creatures because all the horrible venomous bastard creatures fled over the Tasman Sea to Australia to get escape the Kiwis...

    The birds, the fruits or the people?

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    GundiGundi Serious Bismuth Registered User regular
    I found a mantis on my front door handle last week, on the inside.

    It was a pain safely getting him back outside.

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    JedocJedoc In the scuppers with the staggers and jagsRegistered User regular
    edited September 2019
    see317 wrote: »
    Dirtyboy wrote: »
    The UK? What kinds of snakes are there?

    I wish we only had two kinds here in the Southeastern US. Between copperheads, timbler rattlesnakes, cottonmouths, coral snakes, and hundreds of nonvenomous snakes, we have too many to keep track of.

    I was wrong, apparently we actually have 4 species, but two of them were relatively recently recognised. Adder, grass snake, barred grass snake, and smooth snake. Adder is the only venomous one.

    So its looking like Ireland is still my only place to get away from snakes then. Gotcha.

    I don't think New Zealand has any.
    Much like Hawaii, New Zealand is an island grouping devoid of snakes. It also has no deadly spiders, killer jellyfish, or other creepy crawlies that are likely to kill you. Australia is home to all of those.

    Now, you might think that the distinct lack of deadly creatures means that Kiwis are somewhat "softer" than Aussies, after all THEY don't have to battle creepy crawlies with fatal bites just to take a dump.

    You'd be wrong.

    New Zealand doesn't have all the horrible venomous bastard creatures because all the horrible venomous bastard creatures fled over the Tasman Sea to Australia to get escape the Kiwis...

    The birds, the fruits or the people?

    You know, the fuzzy ones.

    Jedoc on
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