I found this strange bug Saturday (dead). I thought I hit the jackpot and it was some exotic insect and I was going to be rich, but it turns out that I had it upside and it's legs were missing (or folded up under it to look like horns). Anyway, they are scary and look bad ass. They are assassin bugs and their bite is painful.
I also saw a grey grasshopper... like he was anemic or something. He had a tight grip on my finger. He was cute and I loved him.
I thought I found a rare bug on Friday, I stomped it, it screamed, so I killed it, and put it in a cup and asked random people all day what it was. Turned out to be a cow ant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqet0Sr38Z4 I like how she says "barefooted" around 2:55
We had a lot of those in Tennessee never seen one here in Texas though. They are beneficial. http://www.raupplab.umd.edu/?archiveBugOfWeek_31.html a lot of people used to think they were to blame for the elm trees dying there in Tennessee but I think that was an urban myth in truth they were eating the real perp. some beetle. We had a dead elm in our yard and it had holes all through it. I cut it down and went through a few chains on my saw that wood is hard as rock. A red Velvet ant is actually a wasp. I keep looking for pictures of the incredibly large ant mounds off the side of the road in Spring TX. or off Aldine Westfield rd or maybe it was Airline blvd. Its been so many years I cannot remember they were like 4-5 foot tall and people said that it was red velvet ant mounds. To bad there wasn't such a thing as the internet I could never go to Snopes to confirm this urban legend.
yours reminds me of "stink bugs" I hate bugs... today at the ugly house, I was messing around with the siding, see what was under it... and a fucking palmetto bug fell out. Evan said "its a roach house..Im not living there"
I like katydids and green stink bugs and moths... grasshoppers are okay too, even though they are in the roach family. Silverfish and centipedes freak me out. eww... I found one in my old house once and freaked the hell out. I would have rather seen a spider.
I kinda like big spiders. I had one on my porch a few years ago, I would feed her. She was like bright greenish yellow. Very pretty
I have a spider in my sink at work. I have to be really careful when I wash my hands. I don't know what he is. Little body, long legs, but not a grandaddy longlegs.
I (as ashamedly as I admit it) found a goddamn cockroach (waterbug to some) in my fucking bathroom this evening, and rather than give it the quick TP toilet treatment, I decided to film shooting .22 blanks at it in the bathtub with my new camera. Made for a great visual demonstration of just how much difference a long barrel makes in firing rounds. I took two .22 "Ramjet" (home depot .22 rimfire "powder actuated tool" charges - essentially, .22 blanks. The first one, fired out of a Walther P22 pistol (short barrel), at a distance of half a foot, caused the roach to land on it's side, kicking for a while. A minute later, I loaded another round into a 18" or so Savage Arms .22 bolt-action rifle, and filmed it, too. Not pretty. Had to clean the bulk of that fucker off a good two square feet of surface, and scoop up his upper torso two feet away (after being airborne for a good second.) If nothing else, goes to show the extra pressure generated in a long barrel.
