Comments | troyworks: Help! Bug me!

troyworks

Help! Bug me!

Mar 23, 2008 22:01

I know I really some bug people, as a good boy should I love entomology, have even considered entomophagy, and as a software developer am responsible for producing and devouring a fair number bugs. But this is completely different. I have to choose a bug to be vectorized for a business card (everybody at work already has one), which is right ( Read more... )

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outlawpoet March 24 2008, 17:58:39 UTC

I've always thought assassin bugs were pretty iconic, as insects go. I had one as a pet when I was a kid.

http://flickr.com/photos/30268343@N00/1294914914/

troyworks March 24 2008, 18:13:46 UTC

I've seen those as a kid as well, never knew what they were called. They look a lot less vicious than they are, sucking the lifeforce out of their prey!

Some of them seem to get pretty big.

outlawpoet March 24 2008, 19:15:35 UTC

the one I had was almost an inch long, although compared to some of the other bugs people have been posting, that seems almost small.

velellavelella March 24 2008, 18:58:08 UTC

I like the koa beetle. It's like a scarab beetle, but much flatter, and not too many people know about it.

troyworks March 24 2008, 19:23:05 UTC

wow, those look like gecko/lizard colorings
http://www2.hawaii.edu/~taylor/images/ColeoAdult.jpg

The other images on the net barely look like beetles with long addomens + minimal shells.

simonfunk March 25 2008, 07:36:06 UTC

If you're feeling evil, you can be an Uropygid:

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troyworks March 25 2008, 07:44:13 UTC

wow those are great shots. Huge! evil yet beutiful.

In previous conversations, I've always thought you were referring to wind scorpians, instead of whip scorpions very similar but far less pretty.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solifugae
http://www.nmpest.com/images/Jsalpuged.JPG

Watching some videos on youtube make me glad I only have to deal with the infrequent black widow.

This has some other great shotshttp://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.richard-seaman.com/Wallpaper/Nature/Horrors/SunSpider.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.richard-seaman.com/

simonfunk March 25 2008, 09:29:58 UTC

Oh, we've probably talked about wind scorpians too -- I had those running through my livingroom in Oceanside. Fast, aggressive little buggers! But definitely not beautiful like the whip scorpions.