[quote]WideGuy wrote:
I like bugs.
However, those spiders are pretty fuckin scary looking.[/quote]
They are quite intimidating.
[quote]WideGuy wrote:
I like bugs.
However, those spiders are pretty fuckin scary looking.[/quote]
Their abdomens look like the occipital bun of those Aliens (a la Sigourney Weaver).
[quote]TeeVee69 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.
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]
I hit one of those HK roaches with a slipper once. Except I only splattered the back half. The front half ran off into my room and disappeared.
I didn’t sleep that night.
the thing about the web spiders I posted is that they are actually really delicate. Out of their web they can easily lose limbs and are subject to other predators.
This bad boy is a type of wolf spider that gets near tarantula size and is a mean hunter. Not lethal to humans, but they can tackle just about any insect. These can be seen at night on the prowl looking for eats.
[quote]BIGRAGOO wrote:
the thing about the web spiders I posted is that they are actually really delicate. Out of their web they can easily lose limbs and are subject to other predators.
This bad boy is a type of wolf spider that gets near tarantula size and is a mean hunter. Not lethal to humans, but they can tackle just about any insect. These can be seen at night on the prowl looking for eats.[/quote]
Ok, that pic nearly made me jump out of my chair, dammit!
[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.
Damn! I hate bees (or any flying insect), but that video was pretty cool. The music was bad-ass too.
Kinda like something out of a sci-fi movie.
Don’t worry, these mud daubers are the natral enemies of all spiders. They take young spiders of all specie and bring them to their nest where they lay eggs on the paralyzed spider and seal them up in a mud tomb. There the larva of the wasp will eat the spider and pupate and emerge as an adult.
There are many wasps that feed spiders to their young. Interesting though, is no adult wasp eats the spiders. The adults eat nectar from flowers.
[quote]SWR-1240 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.
Damn! I hate bees (or any flying insect), but that video was pretty cool. The music was bad-ass too.
Kinda like something out of a sci-fi movie.
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Metallica’s Orion was a good choice of music.
Big, just outta curiousity, what is it that you do?
Big,
Are the Giant Hornets impervious to the stings from those honey bees?
I can understand how a grizzly bear isn’t bothered by a swarm of bees going after him as he goes for their honeycomb, but those Giant Hornets aren’t THAT much bigger than the bees.
By the way, I like how you’ve become the resident bug expert around here.
[quote]wressler125 wrote:
Big, just outta curiousity, what is it that you do?[/quote]
Well, I’m a lab tech for a chem plant, but I went to school for zoology. That’s my concentration in Biology.
[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.
Big,
Are the Giant Hornets impervious to the stings from those honey bees?
I can understand how a grizzly bear isn’t bothered by a swarm of bees going after him as he goes for their honeycomb, but those Giant Hornets aren’t THAT much bigger than the bees.
By the way, I like how you’ve become the resident bug expert around here.[/quote]
The hornets are not totally impervious, but they can ward off the honey bees. A honey bee has to be able to sting in the softer areas of the abdomen of a hornet, but again that’s a toughfeat when the hornet is munching your head off.
Bump. Here’s that big male anole I was talking about. He was showing off.
another
again
[quote]BIGRAGOO wrote:
again[/quote]
Nice progession. Vibrant green in the first shot, and you can see him just starting to “go brown” in the third.
Didn’t like that camera none too much, did he?
[quote]Rykker wrote:
BIGRAGOO wrote:
again
Nice progession. Vibrant green in the first shot, and you can see him just starting to “go brown” in the third.
Didn’t like that camera none too much, did he?[/quote]
Yeah, he’s mister tough guy with the other lizards around the house.
Another bump. Here is a wasp that is absolutely ferocious. I caught this one fighting with another over this large spider. This wasp is known to take spiders that are larger than itself. Wolf spiders are a favorite prey. They search the grass, trees, and rubbish piles for their prey. My yard is very active today.
Another. I wish I could have gotten the fight on film, but I caught it as it was ending.
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