Preserved Topic: grasshopper

woke, got out of bed, ran a comb across my head. Looked outside and saw this huge grasshopper. I followed it all along the railing that surrounds my porch.

Pretty cool.

that's not a grasshopper, that's a "gottesanbeterin" (dont know the english word)

That's a praying mantis! One of my cousins

. . : slicePuzzle

cool

Yeah, those are pretty cool. I wish we had them around these parts, but it's too cold for them here. I think the biggest bugs we have here are either june bugs (scarab like beetles that come out around end-may and beggining-june) and warf spiders (big f'n mutant spiders that hang around the water's edge).

The good thing about living in this climate is that it's too cold for anything poisonous (bugs and reptiles alike). I'd hate to live in an area where a bug can kick your ass, ie. Australia

Cool man, I haven't seen a praying mantis in several years. Used to be you could see them all over the place in the spring, but not anymore. Too dry around here the last several years, if I just had to take a guess.

I like the comment about living in a place where the bugs can kick your ass. haha. It's not too bad around here for the most part. We get those june bugs, except not untill around late July, but some of the ones I've seen could scare the crap out of most people if they saw one flying at them. Big, fat 2 - 2.5in long beetle flying around that you would have a hard time stopping with a baseball bat... Then for awhile we had these mutant moths. You remember Godzilla vs. Mothra? About like that... Well, almost... Some of them were bigger than several of the birds around here. That's about it for the bugs here. We still have plenty of other things to keep too many people from moving here, aside from the heat and lack of things to do...


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Unoriginal Cell 693

heh heh...

For one summer I had one of those dudes for a pet. Seriously, I kept him in a fish tank with plans... not water duh. Would take him outside on a string. He would eat wasps like they were popcorn.

Heh, he first grabs a bug then eats them in half... all there guts ooz out... then he eats the head and the tail end... i was alywas afraid he would latch onto one of my fingers and eat if off... which I think he could have done... but he never did.

a very awesome bug.

                                                           

praying mantis' all over the place wher I live. See them every day in the spring/summer.

Never get tired of looking at them.

During copulation, the female bites the head off the male.

Ouch.

So DL... are you telling us you're a deadman walking? <LOL>

AND... I've been meaning to ask..(you DL) do i remember you saying some time WAAAAYYYY BACK you'd spent the day swinging a sledgehammer bustin' rock? Was that You?

Looking up I noticed I was late...... IIIII ahhhahhh

[This message has been edited by NoJive (edited 09-29-2002).]

Oh yes! I forgot to mention those bird-sized moths! They are HUGE! I love them - bright green and usually motionless until you touch 'em. Great fun they are.

Odd that you didnt feel it before you combed your hair. Most people would have felt it.


Cell 650

Oh...I don't know...living in Australia isn't too bad, we only have nine out of the ten deadliest snakes in the world.

Mind you, I'd hate to live in a country where they actually like Steve Irwin (ie: America )

Koan 63, written on the wall of cell number 250:
Those who Believe
Can
Those who Try
Do
Those who Love
Live

yup we like him in Canada too. At least we used to, he's got a super fat head now - and his show is just repetitive. Too bad.

Seriously though - that's like my BIGGEST fear: poisonous snakes and bugs. I love animals of all types, but just the thought of something that injects venom sends shivers down my spine...

nojive - it's possible.....building stone walls and all........why do you ask?

used to have enormous bats outside my building in japan.

they scared me.
okay.. that's my story.
I feel "included" now.

I met a bat last night...at least, the front of my car did...

That wasn't fun.

Since my bonnet catch doesn't work properly, I had to crawl underneath to unlatch it...and found its head

-= 'DOS: Damn Operating System =-

Praying mantisis byte off the heads of thier lovers to mate....

, But you probably already knew that....



Maskkkk

- Face the Present

Man bugs you have some rough relatives.


-tiki, cell 478

^^^

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During copulation, the female bites the head off the male.

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FYI

if you go to http://www.bugsdirectuk.com/ you can buy a Praying Mantis Starter kit.

you get all kinds of cool stuff along with a real praying mantis.

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