Great animals and pictures, Must be a really fun job. The TF2 picture was good too hah.
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Xilaa's Insects
- Thread starter Rawbi
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Very cool thread, and I really like the Giant Walking Stick.
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Gotta love giant insects that look like they would love to crawl into your sleeping bag when you are peacefully sleeping (shudders and vows to take a very long machete with him when he goes into the jungle again.) But all flippancy aside those creatures look very interesting and cool. If I only had some of my own. Imagine the looks on the faces of all the women when I show them my pet insect.
Very Cool
Very Cool
Am I the only person scared shitless of this photo...
Quite Interesting
Sexy isn't the only word for them xD. Lotta girls would find them creepy....Xiliaa is one of kind rofl.
Bugs give me the freaks, but I live in Virginia and go to the bug exhibit in DC all the time. As a kid I used to be scared of crawling through the play bug tunnel hahah. I would always scurry as fast as I could to get through. But I love the bee portion they have there, that shows the hive. Never been stung, and dont plan on it, but it is cool. Also camel spiders give me hibbeejeebees. Most bugs do, other than the smallest ones. But I have never really had a bad bug experience...Other than finding a GIANT tick on the floor (was green? hahhah) and picking it up with my bare hands and seeing it had itsy bitsy legs and couldnt walk because of its size. Gross. Ticks stink.
Once you go bug, you can't go back.
I'm on my winter break now, but I'll still answer any questions you have.
Then don't watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7q_B9VYfk0w
...actually, do watch it.
The handler (not me, btw) says that they're docile, but that is only if they're used to people and being touched. The ones I take care of are not, and will therefore happily attempt to stab you. The bug in the video actually does show off her defensive behavior, which is quite cool.
In other news, I'm still on winter break, but if you want to ask anything/start a discussion, go right ahead.
Cool, I love little stories like that.
I'm a bio major too, but I feel like I have done nothing compared to you xD It's too scary to talk to professors >.<
So pretty cool pictures :D I was waiting for my school to offer entomology in the spring, but the department decided not to, cause of lack of interest ;o;... ended up signing up for ornithology, hopefully it'll be interesting too~
lonahte: It's possible. It's still kind of cold out here, so maybe it's not warm enough for the eggs to hatch. We'll see -- I'm sure I'll have lots of pictures when I come back to school.
Rin: That's awesome! Birds are my favorite type of animal, but my school doesn't offer that course. I hope you have fun!
Rin: That's awesome! Birds are my favorite type of animal, but my school doesn't offer that course. I hope you have fun!
I don't really like bugs, but when I say that, I usually am refering to annoying bugs like flies and mosquitos (god damn it, I hate mosquitos). But these bugs are cool! I especially like the scorpions and the spiders. Over Winter break, me and my family went to the Amazon in Peru. We saw some pretty cool bugs there, like Bullet Ants (thank god I didn't get stung), fire ants (my dad got stung by one of these), and tarantulas. Oh, and I have a very strange question. Is it true that after having sex, a female Praying Mantis will bite the male's head off? If true, have you ever seen this?
