07-06-2008, 12:43 AM
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Atomic Nerd
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Calgary
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I was out playing airsoft the other day out by Olds and while I was buried in the bushes and mud as usual keeping a low profile in the tall grass...I photographed this beauty crawling on me.
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07-06-2008, 07:46 AM
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Prettier than some of the other creepy crawlies on that website... I don't think I could get close enough to a spider to take a picture.
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07-06-2008, 12:57 PM
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Likes Cartoons
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
I was out playing airsoft the other day out by Olds and while I was buried in the bushes and mud as usual keeping a low profile in the tall grass...I photographed this beauty crawling on me.
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In the mist of war, there is beauty. Aww......
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07-06-2008, 03:10 PM
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Our Jessica Fletcher
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Thanks for the link!
I found 2 of these things about a year and a half ago...
Scariest bug I've ever seen in person, I'm sort of a little girl when it comes to creepy crawlers though. Anyway, we put one of these guys in an ice cream pale with a bunch of small water beetles, and he turned out to be quite a fighter. He did not like those water beetles.
Both of the ones I found were a bit bigger than the one in the picture though, I'd say 3 inches.
Last edited by The Fonz; 07-06-2008 at 03:12 PM.
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07-06-2008, 07:53 PM
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Yup... had nightmares last night. I don't ever want to see another bug in my life!!!
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07-06-2008, 09:17 PM
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Has Towel, Will Travel
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Quote:
Originally Posted by The Fonz
Thanks for the link!
I found 2 of these things about a year and a half ago...
Scariest bug I've ever seen in person, I'm sort of a little girl when it comes to creepy crawlers though. Anyway, we put one of these guys in an ice cream pale with a bunch of small water beetles, and he turned out to be quite a fighter. He did not like those water beetles.
Both of the ones I found were a bit bigger than the one in the picture though, I'd say 3 inches.
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Ya, I've seen those before. I don't know what they're called, but they were great for putting in the girls' pencil cases in elementary school. Baby garter snakes were even better though.
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07-06-2008, 09:49 PM
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Our Jessica Fletcher
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Ford Prefect
Ya, I've seen those before. I don't know what they're called, but they were great for putting in the girls' pencil cases in elementary school. Baby garter snakes were even better though.
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Up until today I've been calling those things 'skeletors'. I don't know where I came up with it, it just seemed to fit.
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07-06-2008, 09:55 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Now world wide!
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They're simply called Giant Water Bugs. They're the largest of the "true bugs," live in ponds and shallows, and eat most anything smaller than them.
I used to catch the occasional one when hunting for salamanders as a kid. I'll never forget when one of them crawled out of the water in the bucket I kept it in, dried itself on a rock, and then flew away. I had no idea those things could fly until then. I can't imagine how nasty it would be to have one smack you on the face while cycling or walking down the street.
For more.
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07-08-2008, 12:20 AM
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Powerplay Quarterback
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: beautiful calgary alberta
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my friend has some bugs from australia, dead of course..now those are scary bugs!
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07-08-2008, 08:26 AM
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Norm!
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Jeez, I was expecting something creepy or scary, but these bugs are all kind of sissy bugs that are harmless.
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Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
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07-08-2008, 08:34 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: SW Ontario
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Quote:
Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Jeez, I was expecting something creepy or scary, but these bugs are all kind of sissy bugs that are harmless.
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This better? 
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07-08-2008, 09:53 AM
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Norm!
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Nah, the fact that someone is holding it tells me that its a miss prissy pants kinda Spider.
I'm talking about the insect like the blister beatle, or the African Killer bees, you know, killers.
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07-08-2008, 10:51 AM
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Crash and Bang Winger
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Portland, OR
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I just got back from a long camping trip around the western US and saw lots and lots of really cool bugs, but this was the major highlight - a windscorpion. Weird, weird arachnid. I knew what it was (I'm a bit of a bug geek), so it didn't freak me out, but I can see how it would scare the bejeezus out of an arachnophobe.
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07-09-2008, 09:11 AM
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Originally Posted by flueryisgod
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Isn't that a little harsh? Like -fighting or dog-fighting... just because they're bugs doesn't make it right.
On the flip side: It was just like "Bug-MXC"!!!! I was putting my money on the scorpion.
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