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Posted: 9/7/2005 3:52:26 AM EDT
Looks 'sorta like a dragonfly, but I've never seen one with those long friggin gizmos hanging out of it's ass.
This thing was buzzing around the store yesterday. He was taken down with a lucky shot from a flyswatter, and then sprayed with brake-kleen for good measure.  YES, that is a fullsize paper towel he is spread across.  
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Posted: 9/7/2005 3:53:52 AM EDT
[#1]
mayfly?
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Posted: 9/7/2005 3:54:29 AM EDT
[#2]
Refugee from NO.
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Posted: 9/7/2005 3:55:58 AM EDT
[#3]
ARM YOURSELF.
And wear a heavy jackat at all times. |
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Posted: 9/7/2005 3:57:13 AM EDT
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Posted: 9/7/2005 3:59:40 AM EDT
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Posted: 9/7/2005 4:00:35 AM EDT
[#6]
Megarhyssa species
Giant Ichneumon 
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Posted: 9/7/2005 4:05:51 AM EDT
[#7]
You win, I think those butt antenna are egg delivery probes
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Posted: 9/7/2005 4:10:35 AM EDT
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GIANT is right, whatever it is |
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Posted: 9/7/2005 4:12:13 AM EDT
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Wood-Boring Wasp.
Flamethrower works best.... 
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Posted: 9/7/2005 4:18:03 AM EDT
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Here's a better idea of how G'damn big this sucker is...
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Posted: 9/7/2005 4:19:09 AM EDT
[#11]
"I wouldn't buy that for a dollar!" |
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Posted: 9/7/2005 4:20:55 AM EDT
[#12]
Cool looking bug. Why did you kill it?
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Posted: 9/7/2005 4:22:41 AM EDT
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yeah why did you kill it?
I hope you eat it. Nothing worse that shooting something and not eating it
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Posted: 9/7/2005 4:26:05 AM EDT
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If anything that big is buzzing around my head, it's going to die. 
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Posted: 9/7/2005 4:31:55 AM EDT
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http://eny3005.ifas.ufl.edu/lab1/Hymenoptera/Ichneumonid.htm
This family of parasitic wasps contains an estimated 60,000 species which are classified into 36 subfamilies. Ichneumoninae is the second largest subfamily of the family Ichneumonidae. All individuals of this subfamily are internal parasites of the order Lepidoptera. Although females oviposit one egg into either larvae or pupae, the offspring always emerge from the pupa (Burks, 1979). Ichneumoninae are endoparasitic idiobionts. An idiobiont has a wide range of hosts and it eats, kills, or paralyzes the host immediately after oviposition therefore resulting in no continuation of development. An endoparasite feeds internally on its host whereas an ectoparasite feeds externally (Gaasch,1998). Female Ichneumoninae look for hosts on the ground and have short ovipositors, possibly as a result of their host usually being a naked larvae (Goulet, 1993). Adults feed on honey dew of aphids and on certain plant foliage. They have a general dislike of intense amounts of heat and sunlight and therefore are not usually found during the middle of the day (Heinrich, 1977). More information than I am sure you were looking for! I would say the common name is Black-footed Longtail. BEAT to the PUNCH!@# I thought I was the only insect guy around here! |
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Posted: 9/7/2005 4:36:16 AM EDT
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So it paralyzes you, implants its egg, the egg hatches, and the larva eats you from the inside before bursting out...Hrmm, where have I heard of this before? 
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Posted: 9/7/2005 4:37:57 AM EDT
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I think that's a 3 peckerd stud wasp. Yeah,...that's it.
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Posted: 9/7/2005 4:41:42 AM EDT
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in PA? you just smacked down NJ's Air Guard!
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Posted: 9/7/2005 4:49:56 AM EDT
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DAMMIT...
While standing here at work, surfin arfcom on my laptop, THIS sonofabitch charged me.  We must be under insect assault right now...  
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Posted: 9/7/2005 4:57:41 AM EDT
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How'd ya down it? Stinger Missle?
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Posted: 9/7/2005 5:01:53 AM EDT
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Better put out some claymores for the incoming ground assault.
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Posted: 9/7/2005 5:14:01 AM EDT
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Posted: 9/7/2005 5:24:54 AM EDT
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Something called a politician from Washington D.C. ?
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Posted: 9/7/2005 5:26:22 AM EDT
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Look at this big summbitch .....
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Posted: 9/7/2005 5:35:58 AM EDT
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It's a Fro Weevil!
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Posted: 9/7/2005 5:56:58 AM EDT
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Posted: 9/7/2005 10:09:01 AM EDT
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Posted: 9/7/2005 10:18:44 AM EDT
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GOOD CHRIST KILL IT WITH FIRE.
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Posted: 9/7/2005 10:19:27 AM EDT
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Posted: 9/7/2005 10:27:41 AM EDT
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Somebody owes me a friggin' keyboard and a fresh glass of apple juice!!! |
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Posted: 9/7/2005 10:32:45 AM EDT
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Dobson fly--their larvae make good fishing bait. Trout flies are tied to imitate them.  ETA: Link with description and pic: www.whatsthatbug.com/dobs.html |
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Posted: 9/7/2005 10:36:16 AM EDT
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Is this a dinner pic?
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Posted: 9/7/2005 10:51:05 AM EDT
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Dobson fly. Male. Harmless. The females bite like a mother, though. |
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Posted: 9/7/2005 11:22:30 AM EDT
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If you think that's big mean and scary, I'm not even gonna get into the cave crickets in my basement. Think "Alien" the size of a golf ball, and MEAN.
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Posted: 9/7/2005 11:38:40 AM EDT
[#35]
 kill them all..........................
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Posted: 9/7/2005 11:43:08 AM EDT
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Drag out your camera, and post pics. AND, bugs aren't mean... they are just missunderstood. |
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Posted: 9/7/2005 11:47:28 AM EDT
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butMe thinks IBTL |
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Posted: 9/7/2005 11:47:37 AM EDT
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  that thing is huge |
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Posted: 9/7/2005 11:48:25 AM EDT
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Same way with humans |
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Posted: 9/7/2005 12:31:47 PM EDT
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IL?????? \ WTF are you doing in IL??????? TXL |
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Posted: 9/7/2005 1:55:37 PM EDT
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Misunderstood alright. They don't bite, infest food, or chew up the place but they sure are ugly. Territorial too, they'll jump straight at you.. 4 feet up and out easy. 
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Posted: 9/7/2005 2:01:30 PM EDT
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Posted: 9/7/2005 3:33:46 PM EDT
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Last month I was from WA 
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Posted: 9/7/2005 3:40:46 PM EDT
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It stings you, your gonads shrink and fall off, you begin to like watching Oprah .... its bad news, son. Nuke it from orbit, that's the only way you can be sure.
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Posted: 9/7/2005 3:43:15 PM EDT
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<-------------So what's this one? |
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Posted: 9/8/2005 3:54:41 PM EDT
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Can't tell from the tiny image. MIGHT be a landlubber grasshopper, but I doubt it. Variegated maybe? |
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