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CRO8
Bipolar (III) Inmate

From: New York City
Insane since: Jul 2000

posted posted 09-28-2002 20:17

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.

GRUMBLE
Paranoid (IV) Mad Scientist

From: Omicron Persei 8
Insane since: Oct 2000

posted posted 09-28-2002 20:20

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

Bugimus
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist

From: New California
Insane since: Mar 2000

posted posted 09-28-2002 20:27

That's a praying mantis! One of my cousins

. . : slicePuzzle

CRO8
Bipolar (III) Inmate

From: New York City
Insane since: Jul 2000

posted posted 09-28-2002 20:33

cool

synax
Maniac (V) Inmate

From: Cell 666
Insane since: Mar 2002

posted posted 09-28-2002 21:43

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

Lord_Fukutoku
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: West Texas
Insane since: Jul 2002

posted posted 09-29-2002 01:01

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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the moment.

Unoriginal Cell 693

eyezaer
Lunatic (VI) Mad Scientist

From: the Psychiatric Ward
Insane since: Sep 2000

posted posted 09-29-2002 01:10

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.

                                                           

DL-44
Maniac (V) Inmate

From: under the bed
Insane since: Feb 2000

posted posted 09-29-2002 04:09

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.



NoJive
Maniac (V) Inmate

From: The Land of one Headlight on.
Insane since: May 2001

posted posted 09-29-2002 04:19

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).]

synax
Maniac (V) Inmate

From: Cell 666
Insane since: Mar 2002

posted posted 09-29-2002 05:03

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.

Patrick
Bipolar (III) Inmate

From: Houston, Texas
Insane since: Dec 2001

posted posted 09-29-2002 08:03

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


Cell 650

Skaarjj
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist

From: :morF
Insane since: May 2000

posted posted 09-29-2002 11:27

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

synax
Maniac (V) Inmate

From: Cell 666
Insane since: Mar 2002

posted posted 09-29-2002 17:24

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...

DL-44
Maniac (V) Inmate

From: under the bed
Insane since: Feb 2000

posted posted 09-29-2002 17:40

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

Michael
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist

From: *land
Insane since: Nov 2000

posted posted 09-30-2002 02:25

used to have enormous bats outside my building in japan.

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

Ogie
Bipolar (III) Inmate

From: Australia, the land of deadly creatures, and deadly idiots (Steve Irwin, who else?)
Insane since: Nov 2001

posted posted 09-30-2002 13:27

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 =-

Maskkkk
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: Willaimsport, PA, US of A the hole in the Ozone
Insane since: Mar 2002

posted posted 10-01-2002 16:03

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

, But you probably already knew that....



Maskkkk

- Face the Present

tikigod
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: outside Augusta National
Insane since: Nov 2001

posted posted 10-01-2002 16:20

Man bugs you have some rough relatives.


-tiki, cell 478

DL-44
Maniac (V) Inmate

From: under the bed
Insane since: Feb 2000

posted posted 10-01-2002 18:01

^^^

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



eyezaer
Lunatic (VI) Mad Scientist

From: the Psychiatric Ward
Insane since: Sep 2000

posted posted 10-03-2002 02:14

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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