[quote]AngryVader wrote:
I’m not a particularly violent man, but something that centipede makes me want to just take an axe to it.[/quote]
An Axe? Try a flame thrower or a 12 gauge.
lol, this spider will actually burry itself INSIDE you!
Now thats a big mo fo
[quote]BIGRAGOO wrote:
These bad boys are coming out now too, since the cicadas are out. Biggest hornet in the US.[/quote]
What species is that, Big?
[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.
Oh yeah, and I’m glad to hear that my brother and I weren’t the only ones who hunted stinging insects with tennis raquets and super soakers 
I could take out a bumble bee at 25 yards back in the day.
-Dan[/quote]
Camel spiders aren’t very big. That infamous photo of one that’s been going around the internet for a few years now is just a closeup. I think they’re only 5" with their legs, which is still pretty big, but not as large as the bird-eater. BTW, camel spiders aren’t technically spiders.
As far as king (or more accurately queen, since they’re 99% female) of all insects has to be the siafu ant of Africa. They’ve been known to eat the livestock, babies and ever the sick and elderly.
[quote]summa wrote:
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]
Some stories are best kept to yourself… and out of my nightmares.
[quote]TeeVee69 wrote:
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??
I was in Hong Kong. Roaches there have wings, and they fly – but not very well. Ugh.[/quote]
Oh, unfortunately they fly here as well. We have the wood roach, wich is very abundant, and the German cockroach. Both get pretty big and can fly. Absolutely digusting.
[quote]Rykker wrote:
BIGRAGOO wrote:
These bad boys are coming out now too, since the cicadas are out. Biggest hornet in the US.
What species is that, Big?
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The cicada killer. Solitary nester, non-aggressive. Kills cicadas (the other bug in pic)and brings it back to a nest dug in grassless, soft dirt. They lay the egg on it and when it hatches, it eats the cicada, pupates, and emerges as an adult. They are really neat to watch, bacause they can make the grass wave a bit from the draft of their wings.
yuck man, that thing is goddamn paleolithic sized.
[quote]pocho wrote:
lol, this spider will actually burry itself INSIDE you!
Now thats a big mo fo[/quote]
Holy crap. Is that two camel spiders attached to each other?
Looks just like one of those face-hugger-impregnator things in the Alien movies.
[quote]BIGRAGOO wrote:
Rykker wrote:
BIGRAGOO wrote:
These bad boys are coming out now too, since the cicadas are out. Biggest hornet in the US.
What species is that, Big?
The cicada killer. Solitary nester, non-aggressive. Kills cicadas (the other bug in pic)and brings it back to a nest dug in grassless, soft dirt. They lay the egg on it and when it hatches, it eats the cicada, pupates, and emerges as an adult. They are really neat to watch, bacause they can make the grass wave a bit from the draft of their wings. [/quote]
What the hell do those things do for the 16 3/4 years that cicadas are dormant?
[quote]BIGRAGOO wrote:
TeeVee69 wrote:
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??
I was in Hong Kong. Roaches there have wings, and they fly – but not very well. Ugh.
Oh, unfortunately they fly here as well. We have the wood roach, wich is very abundant, and the German cockroach. Both get pretty big and can fly. Absolutely digusting.[/quote]
They don’t so much fly as they kind of flutter about. A friend of mine had one flutter right onto his head once. Gross, gross, gross…
[quote]Panther1015 wrote:
BIGRAGOO wrote:
Rykker wrote:
BIGRAGOO wrote:
These bad boys are coming out now too, since the cicadas are out. Biggest hornet in the US.
What species is that, Big?
The cicada killer. Solitary nester, non-aggressive. Kills cicadas (the other bug in pic)and brings it back to a nest dug in grassless, soft dirt. They lay the egg on it and when it hatches, it eats the cicada, pupates, and emerges as an adult. They are really neat to watch, bacause they can make the grass wave a bit from the draft of their wings.
What the hell do those things do for the 16 3/4 years that cicadas are dormant?[/quote]
Eat, lift, and grow.
[quote]BIGRAGOO wrote:
TeeVee69 wrote:
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??
I was in Hong Kong. Roaches there have wings, and they fly – but not very well. Ugh.
Oh, unfortunately they fly here as well. We have the wood roach, wich is very abundant, and the German cockroach. Both get pretty big and can fly. Absolutely digusting.[/quote]
I like to call those “Assault Roaches.” Panama had them all over the place. I swear one had a crash helmet one while it divebombing, along with some little tiny flight goggles and a scarf.
[quote]playmaker08 wrote:
fade wrote:
When I was a teenager we had centipedes like this at my house (probably 4-6 inches long) we used to put them in a pail and light them on fire. One time i was taking a shit and I threw my shirt on the floor. When I finished and reclothed I felt something underneath my shirt sitting on my shoulder.
I grabbed the ‘thing’ over the shirt, took off my shirt and threw it onto the ground. Next thing u know, one of those damn centipedes came crawling out. So I say, fuck centipedes.
So when you shit you take your clothes off? it reminds me of a seinfeld episode.
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at home yes
[quote]Panther1015 wrote:
BIGRAGOO wrote:
Rykker wrote:
BIGRAGOO wrote:
These bad boys are coming out now too, since the cicadas are out. Biggest hornet in the US.
What species is that, Big?
The cicada killer. Solitary nester, non-aggressive. Kills cicadas (the other bug in pic)and brings it back to a nest dug in grassless, soft dirt. They lay the egg on it and when it hatches, it eats the cicada, pupates, and emerges as an adult. They are really neat to watch, bacause they can make the grass wave a bit from the draft of their wings.
What the hell do those things do for the 16 3/4 years that cicadas are dormant?[/quote]
Well, there are two kinds of cicadas. There is the dog-day cicada that comes out every year. It is pictured with the hornet. These cicada are green to greenish black. Every summer these guys emerge from the ground, and are the diet of the cicada killers. The other specie of cicada is the more popluarly known 17-year cicada. These guys are orange-black and spend 16 years under ground feeding on roots juices and growing. They come out in a huge swarm and can be seen everywhere. In fact when they do come out, there are so many of them that the dead ones begin to collect on the ground like litter. Many animals eat cicadas, including birds and smaller mammals.
But back on point, the dog-day cicada is an annual insect. They are the bulk of the hornet’s diet.
[quote]Kratos wrote:
BIGRAGOO wrote:
TeeVee69 wrote:
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??
I was in Hong Kong. Roaches there have wings, and they fly – but not very well. Ugh.
Oh, unfortunately they fly here as well. We have the wood roach, wich is very abundant, and the German cockroach. Both get pretty big and can fly. Absolutely digusting.
I like to call those “Assault Roaches.” Panama had them all over the place. I swear one had a crash helmet one while it divebombing, along with some little tiny flight goggles and a scarf.
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Yuck. I hate roaches. Once, my father cut a tree down that was having some rot problems. When it fell hundreds and hundreds of wood roaches flew out of the hollow and you could see that they were using fiberglass insulation from neighboring houses to pad the hollow for a nest. Just disgusting.
[quote]BIGRAGOO wrote:
TeeVee69 wrote:
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??
I was in Hong Kong. Roaches there have wings, and they fly – but not very well. Ugh.
Oh, unfortunately they fly here as well. We have the wood roach, wich is very abundant, and the German cockroach. Both get pretty big and can fly. Absolutely digusting.[/quote]
There are so many huge German Cockroaches in Hawaii, that our politicians finally gave in and deemed them the State Bird. J/K. But we DO call them “747’s”
That’s fuckign awful, truly. I may have to watch the Nick Berg video to get that one out of my system.
[quote]chinadoll wrote:
There are so many huge German Cockroaches in Hawaii, that our politicians finally gave in and deemed them the State Bird. J/K. But we DO call them “747’s”
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Hahaha, well here our unofficial official state bird is the mosquito.
I like bugs.
However, those spiders are pretty fuckin scary looking.