We're gonna need a bigger fly swat

[Steely Dan]

Squash it? I think you'd have better luck trying to saddle it.

:giggle:

 

[Marg from Oz]

Dan with his bragging must have a bit of the prehistoric in his DNA.
On the other hand I would freak if I saw any of them. China sends enormous amounts of goods to Australia hope a family of those grotesque things don't hitch a ride and they go the way of the cane toad. We must have a great environment for the fertility of weird creatures.

Now I just need Ausgirl to tell me she has a cane toad as a pet.

 

[Ausgirl]

Not me! But check out dear little Monica, and her friend "Dairy Queen":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynf1lHqFo1U&feature=player_detailpage#t=228

The woman speaking clearly was a fan of the Lindy Chamberlain look.

 

[Lovejac]

Squash it? I think you'd have better luck trying to saddle it.

Bahahahahaha :floorlaugh: :floorlaugh:

Funniest post of the day.

 

[Kimster]

Now you're all getting cheeky. Just to calm you down, remember there's at last one insect who doesn't care about endowments - she's just interested in biting the head off her partner, when she's finished with him.

PS: Please never tell because I'll get in trouble, but this pic reminds me of Kimster, a little bit?

http://dududiaries.wildlifedirect.org/2010/10/06/praying-mantis-praying/

ETA: Resemblance to Kimster's avatar, not Kimster!! Paaanic.....

SERIOUSLY?

Now you've done it!!!

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y165/citiprime/alien-invasion.png

 

[Steely Dan]

SERIOUSLY?

Now you've done it!!!

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y165/citiprime/alien-invasion.png

 

[tlcya]

your daily dose of ugly bug



[video=youtube;CWkfAyfBDHE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWkfAyfBDHE[/video]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antlion

 

[Steely Dan]

your daily dose of ugly bug

View attachment 56158

That's all well and good, but it would be nice to know what it's called.

 

[tlcya]

Sorry bout that SD, I added a video and wiki link.

 

[Steely Dan]

Sorry bout that SD, I added a video and wiki link.

I don't know why, but I like to see how animals can be crafty in getting their meals. If a cheetah is chasing a zebra I root for the cheetah. :dunno: Well that's a cat so that's probably why. In this case they're both creepy, but the ant lion is smarter.

 

[Ausgirl]

Vogue!

 

[tlcya]

Mantis and stick bugs fascinate me.

 

[Ausgirl]

This is possibly the cutest spider in the world, and proof that not *everything* in Australia will kill you (if you're people). They're so small, you could fit maybe a dozen on your fingernail. They're crazy colourful -- and they dance!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYIUFEQeh3g

 

[tlcya]

like this guy

credit photo: Igor Siwanowicz

 

[Ausgirl]

I love mantids too!!! I kept some really big ones as pets as a kid... but nothing as fancy as these tropical ones. I actually know the photographer who took this, he is amazing (and loves mantids!) - many of the best mantis pics on google are by him:

 

[tlcya]

do you have his name so I can credit him? I found it in stock photos

 

[Ausgirl]

tlcya, they sell leaf insects like that at my local pet store. I've seriously pondered them! But I picked these instead (I have successfully bred them! yay! Cute bebbies!):

 

[Ausgirl]

Igor Siwanowicz, bug photo guy. He likes bugs. And he's cute! No wonder I'm a fan:

http://photo.net/photodb/user?user_id=1783374

 

[Steely Dan]

Mantis and stick bugs fascinate me.

I had to have radiation after my chemo. When I found out that you don't gain superpowers every time you get shot with radiation I was really bummed. The comic books had lied to me. I had planned to be stickbugman. I'm not exactly sure what superpowers that would give me, but all the same I was disappointed.

Igor Siwanowicz, bug photo guy. He likes bugs. And he's cute! No wonder I'm a fan:

http://photo.net/photodb/user?user_id=1783374

That's it I'm suing him. I didn't give him permission to use my photo? :snooty:

 

[zwiebel]

So, discreetly pretending the scary fact Kimsters caught me hasn't happened.....I found this ridiculous, made-up tweet link to bugs in Australia.

Haha. Anyone can see such critters couldn't really exist.

Could they? Please, my Australian friends, confirm it isn't so......

http://luufy.com/site/post/939/1#.U95t28saySO