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Would girls allow ladybugs to crawl on their hands and arms if they didn't have the "pretty" shell.

Posted on 02/02/2020 10:35:37 AM PST by SamAdams76

When I was growing up, we used to catch bugs all the time. In fact, us boys used to catch flies and such and toss them into spider webs to see how the spiders would dart out from their spider hole and wrap their prey into a cocoon and suck the fluids out of them. Pretty cruel stuff, I know.

This was way before their was an internet, video games, and other ways for boys to entertain themselves indoors. In fact, if us boys were indoors at all during the day, our mothers would shove a broom into our hands and put us to work. So we never went indoors and allowed the mothers to hand us peanut butter sandwiches and Kool Aid out the window. We would not come indoors until dinnertime if we could help it.

So anyway, the girls would hang out with us from time to time too and they never wanted anything to do with the bugs. But the ladybugs were a totally different story. They thought the ladybugs were "cute" and they would allow us to put the ladybugs on them and they would watch the ladybugs climb up their arms and who knows where else where.

Thing is, when you remove the pretty shell, a ladybug is a pretty ugly creature, right up there with cockroaches and spiders.



TOPICS: Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: bugs; insects
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To: chris37
How about this dude!
21 posted on 02/02/2020 10:53:06 AM PST by 1FreeAmerican
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To: xrmusn

Same with chipmunks. They are so cute until they get into the garage and chew up everything in site.


22 posted on 02/02/2020 10:53:33 AM PST by shelterguy
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To: SamAdams76
"mothers would shove a broom into our hands and put us to work"...had TO laugh 😂 out loud at that! AND So true!! If my boys stayed inside they were made to do dishes etc..NO WONDER I saw very little of them on saturdays!! Stinkers!!🤣
23 posted on 02/02/2020 10:57:15 AM PST by RoseofTexas
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To: devane617
not funny

Okay Mommy long-legs.
24 posted on 02/02/2020 10:57:26 AM PST by golux
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To: piasa

I will let those guys move onto my body if they like. I let them crawl on me.

I don’t understand why I do this.


25 posted on 02/02/2020 10:58:56 AM PST by chris37 (Impeach Chief Obama Injustice Roberts, a fraud, a clown and a tyrant!)
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To: 1FreeAmerican

Listen to me, 1FreeAmerican, I am almost certain that this does not resemble a tiny wolf spider!


26 posted on 02/02/2020 10:59:40 AM PST by chris37 (Impeach Chief Obama Injustice Roberts, a fraud, a clown and a tyrant!)
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To: Hot Tabasco

They bite!


27 posted on 02/02/2020 11:02:28 AM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear ("Progressives" (elitist communists) "Love you to death".)
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To: SamAdams76

We raise farm girls here. They seem to tolerate the bugs pretty well. If you are not keeping a close eye on them you might end up with all kinds of critters living in the house with you.


28 posted on 02/02/2020 11:08:27 AM PST by JohnDeereGreen
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To: SamAdams76

Sow bugs, aka pill bugs or folly-pollies were another bug girls weren’t scared of.

Not that us boys were unsafe aid of all bugs.


29 posted on 02/02/2020 11:10:08 AM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: chris37
Wolf Spiders. No. The little Zebra spiders. Yes. They seem inquisitive. They slowly walk up your arm, as they look 👀 you straight in the eyes.🕷
30 posted on 02/02/2020 11:12:36 AM PST by MotorCityBuck ( Keep the change, you filthy animal! ,)
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To: SamAdams76

Plus they bite and stink when you smash them.


31 posted on 02/02/2020 11:16:17 AM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: SamAdams76

I hung out with a more fun class of girl.


32 posted on 02/02/2020 11:18:54 AM PST by discostu (I know that's a bummer baby, but it's got precious little to do with me)
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To: All

Growing up my father taught us it was against the law to harm a praying mantis. We would allow them to walk on our arms without any fear. I still would.


33 posted on 02/02/2020 11:20:53 AM PST by pnut22
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To: SamAdams76
When I was growing up, we used to catch bugs all the time

I used to like to catch fireflies. We called them lightning bugs.

34 posted on 02/02/2020 11:21:03 AM PST by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: chris37
I don’t understand why I do this.

Neither do the rest of us......

35 posted on 02/02/2020 11:26:54 AM PST by Hot Tabasco (I want an impeachment pen)
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To: chris37

LOL! That is a Hawaiian style cane spider. Very docile creature but lighting fast when moving through your house...

Although it is an arachnid and does have fangs it does not bite. The size reference to the hand is correct (though I think the hand is not a large).


36 posted on 02/02/2020 11:34:42 AM PST by 1FreeAmerican
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To: ifinnegan
Sow bugs, aka pill bugs or folly-pollies were another bug girls weren’t scared of.

My elder daughter when she was little, decided they were named “Jameses,”—she had a chubby little friend named James—and was always bringing one or more to us. “Oh, Daddy, lookie, here’s another James!”

37 posted on 02/02/2020 11:35:56 AM PST by Swordmaker (My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplophobe bigot!)
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To: SamAdams76

Ladybugs are aphid terminators. We love seeing them and spiders on our plants.


38 posted on 02/02/2020 11:42:31 AM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
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To: dfwgator

Chipmunks are the bane of my existence. I do everything I can to eradicate their destructive beings.


39 posted on 02/02/2020 11:43:58 AM PST by RummyChick
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To: pnut22

Yeap, praying mantis, walking sticks, daddy longleggers, lady bugs rolly pollies,females carpenter bees, and fire flies were all safe with. Loved them all


40 posted on 02/02/2020 11:50:34 AM PST by mware (RETIRED)
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