[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Most Bad Ass Insect EVAR! (Page 1 of 4)
Posted: 7/10/2009 1:37:25 PM EDT
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Who is your vote for the most bad ass insect on the planet? My vote goes to the Japanese Hornet  These things supposedly aren't aggressive toward humans, some people even keep them as pets. But it seems it makes whatever insect it comes across it's bitch. They are known to sometimes attack and kill Preying Mantis's. |
When I lived in a small fishing village south of NOLA called Jean Lafitte, we'd get thse things called Railroad Crickets once a year...
Maybe you can't tell by the picture, but these things get about 6 inches long and look scary as fuck. Basically harmless though. We would pick them up all the time. |
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Quoted: When I lived in a small fishing village south of NOLA called Jean Lafitte, we'd get thse things called Railroad Crickets once a year... http://www.onebrick.org/blog/uploaded_images/IMG_0811-713097.jpg Maybe you can't tell by the picture, but these things get about 6 inches long and look scary as fuck. Basically harmless though. We would pick them up all the time. Aren't those poisonous? I was down in Fort Benning and they had this BIG ASS grasshoppers, like that big, and various colors. They said the black ones were poisonous to eat or something? Not that anyone would eat a grasshopper. |
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When I lived in a small fishing village south of NOLA called Jean Lafitte, we'd get thse things called Railroad Crickets once a year... http://www.onebrick.org/blog/uploaded_images/IMG_0811-713097.jpg Maybe you can't tell by the picture, but these things get about 6 inches long and look scary as fuck. Basically harmless though. We would pick them up all the time. Aren't those poisonous? I was down in Fort Benning and they had this BIG ASS grasshoppers, like that big, and various colors. They said the black ones were poisonous to eat or something? Not that anyone would eat a grasshopper. Oh the Asians would...they eat all that gross crap with exoskeletons and multiple pairs of legs. |
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fTrSOFyfxs Ugh I already hate this hornet.
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Someone is going to post that giant spider eating a bird picture.... DO IT! I want to see that. http://i26.tinypic.com/2ur70a9.png AAGGGHHHHH AAAAGGHHHHHH AGGGGHHHHHHHH (imagine a high pitched little girl scream) AAGGHHHHHHHHH |
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Someone is going to post that giant spider eating a bird picture.... DO IT! I want to see that. http://i26.tinypic.com/2ur70a9.png Damn! But that's not an insect but, what's best round for that????  |
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Who is your vote for the most bad ass insect on the planet? My vote goes to the Japanese Hornet http://www.naturenet.net/blogs/media/mandarinia2.jpg These things supposedly aren't aggressive toward humans, some people even keep them as pets. But it seems it makes whatever insect it comes across it's bitch. They are known to sometimes attack and kill Preying Mantis's. I agree with your choice. Saw a thing on TV about them. The way they destroyed an entire honeybee colony was the worst bug carnage I've ever witnessed. |
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Someone is going to post that giant spider eating a bird picture.... DO IT! I want to see that. http://i26.tinypic.com/2ur70a9.png Damn! But that's not an insect but, what's best round for that????  |
I'll have to give it to the ants. 
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Someone is going to post that giant spider eating a bird picture.... DO IT! I want to see that. http://i26.tinypic.com/2ur70a9.png Damn! But that's not an insect but, what's best round for that????
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Quoted: Quoted: Who is your vote for the most bad ass insect on the planet? My vote goes to the Japanese Hornet http://www.naturenet.net/blogs/media/mandarinia2.jpg These things supposedly aren't aggressive toward humans, some people even keep them as pets. But it seems it makes whatever insect it comes across it's bitch. They are known to sometimes attack and kill Preying Mantis's. I agree with your choice. Saw a thing on TV about them. The way they destroyed an entire honeybee colony was the worst bug carnage I've ever witnessed. lol. yeah, likes 10's of thousands of honeybe heads all over the place, and only 1 or 2 dead hornets. |
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Quoted: That's pretty darned cool, but my favorite insect by far is the praying mantis. Me too. I used to keep them as pets and feed them crickets. Second is probably click beetles. Used to play with them as a kid and found one in the sink the other day, that was about 1.25" long. Third the big solid colored bees with the white spot on the "forehead". We would catch those and tie a black thread, secured to shirt buttons, around the thorax like a leash. They'd fly all around you. Warning!! Don't try it with the striped ones!! |
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Gross, potato bug. |
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We were talking about those the other day at home. They are featured in the Hillary Swank  movie, The Reaping.They don't seem to be as common these days. Quoted: When I lived in a small fishing village south of NOLA called Jean Lafitte, we'd get thse things called Railroad Crickets once a year... http://www.onebrick.org/blog/uploaded_images/IMG_0811-713097.jpg Maybe you can't tell by the picture, but these things get about 6 inches long and look scary as fuck. Basically harmless though. We would pick them up all the time. |
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Someone is going to post that giant spider eating a bird picture.... DO IT! I want to see that. http://i26.tinypic.com/2ur70a9.png [Curled up in a corner crying like a baby] Mommy, please make that not real. PLEASE make that not real!!! |
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Gross, potato bug. THERE'S ONE ON THE FLOOR, EWWWW GET IT GET IT GET IT!!!! 
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This is the video of the hornets attacking the bee hive, this is genocide!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mseXCMfBlYI |
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Third the big solid colored bees with the white spot on the "forehead". We would catch those and tie a black thread, secured to shirt buttons, around the thorax like a leash. They'd fly all around you. Warning!! Don't try it with the striped ones!! Uhhh... Those are called cicadas dude. Nevermind. I'm an idiot. You're talking about carpenter bees, right? 
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Yep. Damned painful sting, like getting hit with a stun gun (BT, DT) and a hot soldering iron, at the same time. Voice of experience here. It will make you puke, especially when you get hit on the belly. That they hunt tarantulas makes them pretty bad assed. |
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That's actually photographic trick where the spiders are up close to the camera and the troops in the back ground are alittle bit away. Camel Spiders dont get as big as it looks like they do in that pic. |
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This is the video of the hornets attacking the bee hive, this is genocide! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mseXCMfBlYI
Amazing. The insects, the phenomena, AND the filmmaking. |