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.
It would be hard to do because they are never still. They move all the time and they are FAST suckers.
You have to injure them first or stick a pin thru em, not that I ever did that, mind you.
The Vinegaroon, a charming resident of New Mexico.
Oh, is that awesome or what. We need video of the meal.
Please tell me the thing is really the size of an ant.
Ever heard the sound they make when they're ticked?
Yeah, a squealing type sound.
Wasps like to try and build nest under the kids' playground in the backyard so I don't like to hit 'em with poisons.
I use the little lady's hairspray. Gums up their wings so they drop, and then it's hello size 13...
They're a good bit smaller than the local ants.
They're ugly though, you have to admit that. I like the praying mantis...and the "walking stick" bugs are pretty cool.
I was hoping some other farmboy or girl would. I'm a cityboy.
Yikes. that is eeeeevil
There are few things as pleasurable during the summer as killing wasps and hornets.
Gotta love Bumblebees though.
Vinegaroons are pretty scary. Aggressive little suckers...
Holy smokes. Not good.
Potato bugs are charming, not ugly.
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