Posted on 08/09/2006 11:44:23 AM PDT by pissant
Ok. Enough news about Joe Lieberman, angry A-Rabs, and kittens around here. It's time to tell us what your favorite bug is and why.
Pissants top 7 are as follows:
7. Potato Bug. The little fellers are like miniature Armadillos and was one you could pick up as a kid without getting bitten or stung.
6. Earwig or Pincher Bug. Those pinchers on their tushes are quite intimidating. And for some reason like to hang out in Dahlias, so beware.
5. Butterfly. They always looked the best tacked to my bug collection corkboard. And were much easier to catch than grasshoppers.
4. Army Ants. These little communists are simply amazing. Putting your arm into an ant hill as a kid was a right of passage.
3. Dung Beetle. Besides being awesome at rolling a turd accross the ground, the name is a useful insult to be tossed around at cocktail parties.
2. Bird Eating Spider. There is nothing cooler than watching a giant spider attack a bird or small rodent.
1. Praying Mantis. This bug has inspired many nightmares in people and is responsible, with the onset of National Geographic photos and TV, for inspiring many loonies to claim they have been abducted by aliens. Any similarity to James Carville is strictly incidental.
Im suprised at your number one choice considering the male praying mantis gets eaten after..well, having "fun". Its good to be the female in the mantis world :o)
Oh and you forget the best kinda bug ever... The fussbug.
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And I forgot to mention that the coolest thing about fussbugs is how truly rare they are.
MM
Stag beetle.
Doodle bugs (ant killers), I remember catching them as a kid, and passed it on to my kids. June bugs, would fly into everything and girls hated them... : ) <<< me
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THat seems to odd to be true.
There is a version that can roll into a perfect ball and one that just fold in half- more or less and has flared sides pn its plates. We call those SOw bugs.
Oh no, I think they are common everywhere.
So, mr. pro, what is the best bug?
Typical fate for beetles back then.
Fleas and roaches deserve a category unto themselves.
How would you like to feel that in your sleeping bag. Zoinks.
Kinda like possum versus Opossum
I forgot about that attribute. But just like the human female species, its sometimes better to just look and keep your distance.
Is that the secret ingredient of Stagg Chili?
I thought that was called and aardvark
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