[quote]buffalokilla wrote:
The bird eating spiders are downright small compared to the camel spiders in Iraq. Would NOT want to cross one of those.
-Dan[/quote]
The camel spider is not a spider and is not as big as portrayed in the stupid e-mails that went around.
After watching a documentary on Giant Hornets, I am convinced that they own the insect world.
Here’s a video of 30 Giant Hornets vs 30 000 bees.
[quote]krayon wrote:
After watching a documentary on Giant Hornets, I am convinced that they own the insect world.
Here’s a video of 30 Giant Hornets vs 30 000 bees.
Wow. It seems like in the insect world, more than anywhere, it’s usually strength in numbers that dominates.
I guess those Giant Hornets are pretty bad-ass. Maybe I can let a few of them loose in my apartment to take care of my millipede issue…
Reminds me of the movie “BUG”
[quote]Bauer97 wrote:
krayon wrote:
After watching a documentary on Giant Hornets, I am convinced that they own the insect world.
Here’s a video of 30 Giant Hornets vs 30 000 bees.
Wow. It seems like in the insect world, more than anywhere, it’s usually strength in numbers that dominates.
I guess those Giant Hornets are pretty bad-ass. Maybe I can let a few of them loose in my apartment to take care of my millipede issue…[/quote]
You don’t want those in your apartment.
http://blink.dagbladet.no/user/files/a/ad/adamsson/spider.jpg
Me trying to get over my arachnophobia… 
[quote]Adamsson wrote:
http://blink.dagbladet.no/user/files/a/ad/adamsson/spider.jpg
Me trying to get over my arachnophobia… :P[/quote]
i DONT WANT to get over my phobia. I’d prefer to just KILL EM ALL!
[quote]BIGRAGOO wrote:
Bauer97 wrote:
krayon wrote:
After watching a documentary on Giant Hornets, I am convinced that they own the insect world.
Here’s a video of 30 Giant Hornets vs 30 000 bees.
Wow. It seems like in the insect world, more than anywhere, it’s usually strength in numbers that dominates.
I guess those Giant Hornets are pretty bad-ass. Maybe I can let a few of them loose in my apartment to take care of my millipede issue…
You don’t want those in your apartment.[/quote]
Well, obviously I wouldn’t be in there with them, I’d just send them in on a millipede-destroying mission, and then send something else in to kill the giant hornets.
What kills Giant Hornets?
Just for you Neebone: red-kneed tarantula
[quote]Bauer97 wrote:
BIGRAGOO wrote:
Bauer97 wrote:
krayon wrote:
After watching a documentary on Giant Hornets, I am convinced that they own the insect world.
Here’s a video of 30 Giant Hornets vs 30 000 bees.
Wow. It seems like in the insect world, more than anywhere, it’s usually strength in numbers that dominates.
I guess those Giant Hornets are pretty bad-ass. Maybe I can let a few of them loose in my apartment to take care of my millipede issue…
You don’t want those in your apartment.
Well, obviously I wouldn’t be in there with them, I’d just send them in on a millipede-destroying mission, and then send something else in to kill the giant hornets.
What kills Giant Hornets?
[/quote]
Raid. Hornets don’t have many natural enemies. A bird may take one, but unless it wanders upon a big spider, or gets caught in a big web, it’s usually left alone. Those hornets are too big for most other insect predators to tackle. Hell a hive of bees couldn’t stop them, so that ought to tell you their toughness.
[quote]BIGRAGOO wrote:
Bauer97 wrote:
BIGRAGOO wrote:
Bauer97 wrote:
krayon wrote:
After watching a documentary on Giant Hornets, I am convinced that they own the insect world.
Here’s a video of 30 Giant Hornets vs 30 000 bees.
Wow. It seems like in the insect world, more than anywhere, it’s usually strength in numbers that dominates.
I guess those Giant Hornets are pretty bad-ass. Maybe I can let a few of them loose in my apartment to take care of my millipede issue…
You don’t want those in your apartment.
Well, obviously I wouldn’t be in there with them, I’d just send them in on a millipede-destroying mission, and then send something else in to kill the giant hornets.
What kills Giant Hornets?
Raid. Hornets don’t have many natural enemies. A bird may take one, but unless it wanders upon a big spider, or gets caught in a big web, it’s usually left alone. Those hornets are too big for most other insect predators to tackle. Hell a hive of bees couldn’t stop them, so that ought to tell you their toughness.[/quote]
The bees never even mounted a defense…they should have flanked left.
[quote]Bauer97 wrote:
BIGRAGOO wrote:
Bauer97 wrote:
krayon wrote:
After watching a documentary on Giant Hornets, I am convinced that they own the insect world.
Here’s a video of 30 Giant Hornets vs 30 000 bees.
Wow. It seems like in the insect world, more than anywhere, it’s usually strength in numbers that dominates.
I guess those Giant Hornets are pretty bad-ass. Maybe I can let a few of them loose in my apartment to take care of my millipede issue…
You don’t want those in your apartment.
Well, obviously I wouldn’t be in there with them, I’d just send them in on a millipede-destroying mission, and then send something else in to kill the giant hornets.
What kills Giant Hornets?
[/quote]
In the documentary, it said that Giant Hornets usually die from killing and eatting everything around the nest and end up starving to death. They massacre other hornets too.
There are so some bees that evolved to fight off Giant Hornets. The bees all group together and let the Giant Hornet scout into the hive and then on cue they all swarm it. The heat generated from all the bees, roasts the hornet to death .
These bad boys are coming out now too, since the cicadas are out. Biggest hornet in the US.
They need to get some of those roided-up x-vest wearing rats to take some fucking action against these douchebags (by douchebags I mean every creature that banged out a mouse on this thread).
On a side note, when I was around 8 years old, I was walking along the street with my next-door-neighbor and we stumbled upon a Wasp’s nest that was made out of newspaper. I kicked it, not knowing that it was a wasp nest, and we were swarmed.
I ran as fast as I could, leaving my neighbor behind (I know, I know…I was 8 at the time though and scared shiiiiiiiitless). I got stung like 10-15 times whereas my buddy was stung closer to 50. He has never forgiven me.
[quote]blooey wrote:
BIGRAGOO wrote:
Kratos wrote:
BIGRAGOO wrote:
These are starting to be seen. They will be around till late summer.
There was one of these in a doorway we never used. I used to throw crickets into its web and watch it get 'em. I always thought they were neat.
Haha, I do the same thing. They wrap the crickets up fast, don’t they?
In my younger days, I would catch spiders and keep them in a box. I would feed them ants and flies, but mostly other spiders since flies are hard to catch and ants don’t seem to be very desireable prey. Watching two spiders duke it out is pretty interesting. I’m sure I violated some animal cruelty laws somewhere.
The most interesting fights happened between hunting spiders. Oftentimes, the spiders would stalk each other for minutes before pouncing, and they pounce fast. Fights between hunting spiders were just writhing masses of claws and legs. The funny thing is that the small ones won about as often as the big ones.
Web spinners owned all, though. Once one got a web up and running, it was all over for any other arthropods not of the same species. Others would avoid the webs for a while, maybe, but is was only a matter of time until it got tangled in the web and the web spinner came to finish it off.
Fights between web spinners of the same species were interesting. I was only able to get one type, which was the common house spider. When they fought, they would grapple with each other in an attempt to rip off their opponent’s legs. I remember one winner had only three legs left.
Back to centipedes: I was in Taiwan once watching a trail of ants when a millipede crawled by, moving against the flow of ants. About a minute later, the ants were carrying back a dead millipede. Pretty chilling.
I love bugs, if you couldn’t tell.[/quote]
God DAMMIT why did I read that
when I was on the island of Naxos in Greece, a 7 inch centipede slept with me. IAround 7am, after repeatedly rubbing my arm because it felt like the hair was standing up, I threw my sleeping bag off me and saw this monster on my arm. When it noticed I noticed it, it bit me. I screamed, levitated out of the bed, and scared the shit out of my friend on the other bed. He asked what my problem was and I told him about it. He didn’t believe me right away. I ran to the bathroom to take a leak and he started yelling “oh…my…god” over and over. We finally caught it and crushed it’s head. It stayed alive for days and we finally put it on the ant hill outside and watched the red ants eat that sucker. It still freaks me out to think about it.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
By the way, I find spiders fascinating because they are the only insect that seems to be trying to think of maneuvers while you try to kill it. It makes me wonder if anyone has ever tested their IQ.[/quote]
Agreed. They do seem smarter than your average pest.
But spiders are not insects; they’re arachnids (which include scorpions, ticks and mites).
The easy way to tell the difference: arachnids have eight legs, while insects have six.
I accidentally stepped on a 4-inch cockroach in my bare feet once. It crunched under my foot but walked away seemingly unfazed. One of the grossest experiences ever.
[quote]TeeVee69 wrote:
I accidentally stepped on a 4-inch cockroach in my bare feet once. It crunched under my foot but walked away seemingly unfazed. One of the grossest experiences ever.[/quote]
A four inch cockroach?? Where were you, in a jungle, or in the NYC sewers??
[quote]BIGRAGOO wrote:
TeeVee69 wrote:
I accidentally stepped on a 4-inch cockroach in my bare feet once. It crunched under my foot but walked away seemingly unfazed. One of the grossest experiences ever.
A four inch cockroach?? Where were you, in a jungle, or in the NYC sewers??[/quote]
I was in Hong Kong. Roaches there have wings, and they fly – but not very well. Ugh.