To bee.....or what?
Jul 12th 2007 | 4:10 pm
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Jul 12th 2007 | 4:13 pm
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Truly amazing. I saw a doco on this years ago when I was a kid and have always remembered it. It helped towards me becoming an athiest and getting to grips with the idea of the 'biological imperative'. Now I am amazed that it is about to happen all around me. I will fu/ckin cringe when it happens lol, but I am going to be mailing home and telling everyone. I also saw one about a gang of big crabs in OZ or somehere. Don't fancy that!!
Jul 12th 2007 | 4:16 pm
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I hate things that jump...crickets, jumping spiders, frogs. Praying Mantis also freak me out...they are huge..around 6" long. The worse thing is the way they can spin their head around. 
Jul 12th 2007 | 4:24 pm
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The ones I call daddy long legs are really called crane flies. My husband calls those spiders with the tiny bodies and very long, thin legs daddy long legs. He is correct and I am wrong...but I'm not telling him that. 
DLL/crane flies also freak me out...they make a rustling noise when they fly near you.
DLL/crane flies also freak me out...they make a rustling noise when they fly near you.
Jul 12th 2007 | 5:50 pm
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Y'all are such scaredy cats.
Come and live down here in Florida and face down your first Palmetto bug and then come and cry to me. Pfffffffttttttttttttt
Come and live down here in Florida and face down your first Palmetto bug and then come and cry to me. Pfffffffttttttttttttt
Jul 12th 2007 | 10:24 pm
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Help Michiganders!!!
I have just killed the biggest bee type creature I have ever seen in my life. It was in our yard when I pulled up and almost flew in the car widow. It seemed pissed right off by the car and kept dive bombing it. I ran away leaving the keys in the car. I had to attack it with a broom and it took some killing.
It is about an inch long dead, alive it looked as big as my thumb. I have googled it and am wondering if it could be a queen yellowjacket? A site I found said they tend to be half inch long while the queen is almost an inch (this is an inch at least). What I am wondering is - and this may sound dumb but I have a total phobia of bees and especially wasps and even more especially dinosaur sized wasps!!! - is there any way it's buddies could know it is dead and start looking for revenge or something, I mean like, do they give of any distress chemicals and stuff. I am sitting here shivering and imagining them crawling all over the house.
Anyway, anyone had experience of these gargangtuan monster insects and am I right to be fearful?
I have just killed the biggest bee type creature I have ever seen in my life. It was in our yard when I pulled up and almost flew in the car widow. It seemed pissed right off by the car and kept dive bombing it. I ran away leaving the keys in the car. I had to attack it with a broom and it took some killing.
It is about an inch long dead, alive it looked as big as my thumb. I have googled it and am wondering if it could be a queen yellowjacket? A site I found said they tend to be half inch long while the queen is almost an inch (this is an inch at least). What I am wondering is - and this may sound dumb but I have a total phobia of bees and especially wasps and even more especially dinosaur sized wasps!!! - is there any way it's buddies could know it is dead and start looking for revenge or something, I mean like, do they give of any distress chemicals and stuff. I am sitting here shivering and imagining them crawling all over the house.
Anyway, anyone had experience of these gargangtuan monster insects and am I right to be fearful?
Did it look like this?
Jul 13th 2007 | 2:07 am
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Well do you have the devil black wasps? We get these great big enormous things here which look like a wasp but are the size of small childs arm I kid ye not and are all black. They are evil, the devils sporn.
We call them the stealth wasps. And all they ever do is fly straight at you. What the hell are those things?
We call them the stealth wasps. And all they ever do is fly straight at you. What the hell are those things?
Would love to see one of these one day...
Jul 13th 2007 | 2:10 am
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Those'll probably be some type of solitary wasp - we have them all over (am also in CT). My wife wants to kill them thinking they'll attack the kids, but the entomologist comes out in me when I see them - they're passive and pretty beneficial to the garden.
Would love to see one of these one day...
Would love to see one of these one day...
Jul 13th 2007 | 2:12 am
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We often see what looks like a large wasp...about an inch long...but it's dark brown all over. Does anyone know what it is?
Jul 13th 2007 | 2:17 am
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Well, think a US "daddy longlegs" is a harvestman (order of arachnids) - in the UK that's what I'd call them and reserve daddy longlegs for crane flies. Just remember being very confused when my wife was complaining of daddy longlegs in our basement and I couldn't see what she meant, as there was no big gangly things flying around, only to realise they were on the floor.
Jul 13th 2007 | 2:36 am
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Hmmmm may have to reconsider perm move to Cali in view of this thread...... don't 'do' bugs of any kind.. at least in my local park they put up signs saying 'beware of rattlesnakes'. Haven't come across any really gross bugs yet........
